A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . The Weary Travellers Spring/ near A Crude Sugar Mill near Las Marias. CHAPTER X The End of the Campaign Arrival of the mail-steamer — The soldier-boy andhis letters — The greater part of the brigade isquartered in Mayaguex — Agriculture in PuertoRico — Material result of our campaign — A fare-well order— General Schwan departs for the UnitedStates. ON the 19th of August a steamer cameinto the harbor, bringing us a mail,the first we had received since thebeginning of July. If
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . The Weary Travellers Spring/ near A Crude Sugar Mill near Las Marias. CHAPTER X The End of the Campaign Arrival of the mail-steamer — The soldier-boy andhis letters — The greater part of the brigade isquartered in Mayaguex — Agriculture in PuertoRico — Material result of our campaign — A fare-well order— General Schwan departs for the UnitedStates. ON the 19th of August a steamer cameinto the harbor, bringing us a mail,the first we had received since thebeginning of July. If the people who wrotethose letters could have seen the happinessthey wrought upon their distant boys, I amsure they would have been surprised andtouched. Again and again we read thesimple news of home,— the cat was dead, orlittle sister had the mumps, or father hadbuilt a new fence around the back pasture,—and wars and kings and presidents faded into93 94 YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS forgetfulness before the heart to heart talksthat had come from over-seas. I dont suppose there is anybody thatknows the value of a letter better than asoldier
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