Autobiography of Captain ; biographical sketches of relatives, reminiscences of 1861-1865, also some opinions and reflections concerning public duty . regarded by his emphncrs, whopredict a future for him. The out-of-town guests for the wedding wtre : Miss Helen Hook,James Brownell, and Fritz Wulfekuehler, of Leavenworth ; Killey and her son. Percj Killey. of Effingham, and theii guest,Miss Ida Lace, from the Isle of Man ; ^Irs. Ford Moore, and Mr. andMrs. Zeno Briggs, Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Woodhouse,Lancaster ; Miss Julia Goodman, Hamilton, Ohio; Miss FrancesWhite, B
Autobiography of Captain ; biographical sketches of relatives, reminiscences of 1861-1865, also some opinions and reflections concerning public duty . regarded by his emphncrs, whopredict a future for him. The out-of-town guests for the wedding wtre : Miss Helen Hook,James Brownell, and Fritz Wulfekuehler, of Leavenworth ; Killey and her son. Percj Killey. of Effingham, and theii guest,Miss Ida Lace, from the Isle of Man ; ^Irs. Ford Moore, and Mr. andMrs. Zeno Briggs, Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Woodhouse,Lancaster ; Miss Julia Goodman, Hamilton, Ohio; Miss FrancesWhite, Boston; and Miss Ruth Emerson. JOHN MILTON CAIN, Second son of the late J. M. Cain. Student, Kansas UrLawrence, Kansas. CHAPTER 9. I HOPE and believe that among some of our familythis narrative may be read one or two hundred yearsfrom now, and it occurs to me that they may, underdifferent conditions and a higher civilization and cul-ture, desire to know something about the religiousand moral tone of the camp and troops in the field, andhow the carnage and shock of battle affects the ordinarysoldier. As to the religious and moral tone: When we firststarted out in Company C, 8th Kansas, there wasquite a number of young men who held prayer-meet-ings, and when they quit holding these meetings I donot remember, but if religion was a tangible quantitythe wreckage of it would be found all along our lineof march. In this connection I rerhember when we were incamp at Nashville, Tenn., and I was Sergeant-Major,we had no Chaplain, and the duty of taking the lastwishes of dying soldiers seemed to devolve on was not stric
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