. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . ger parishes of large cities,these horses remind me most of visits to the home for theruptured and crippled. If this war lasts long and there are foundno horses of Spanish gentlemen in Cuba on which to forage, itmay be regarded as a fixed certainty that requisitions for offi-cers mounts will have to be made upon the mules. Not in any spirit of fault finding, but merely to record facts,it should be stated here that, though the regiment had beenin the United States service for nearly one month, the entirenecessities of it
. New York and the war with Spain. History of the Empire State regiments . ger parishes of large cities,these horses remind me most of visits to the home for theruptured and crippled. If this war lasts long and there are foundno horses of Spanish gentlemen in Cuba on which to forage, itmay be regarded as a fixed certainty that requisitions for offi-cers mounts will have to be made upon the mules. Not in any spirit of fault finding, but merely to record facts,it should be stated here that, though the regiment had beenin the United States service for nearly one month, the entirenecessities of its Hospital Department had been provided by theregiment and at its own expense. The Surgeon himself wasobliged to advance considerable money to procure necessary medi-cines. At his request the Chaplain was detailed by the Colonelto proceed to Tampa on the 26th instant, with a formal requisi-tion for medical supplies and endeavor to secure them at went directly to Army Corps Headquarters at Tampa BayHotel, was most courteously treated and sent to one of the supply. £i. lU^^^n^ State Historian. 179 stores in the town with an order to have supplies that wereneeded furnished at once. Only a meagre portion of the requisi-tion could be obtained, supplies in stock being most inadequateto the demands. But a greater difficulty than this, even, con-fronted the Hospital Department. It seems that soldiers in theregular army by self-imposed fines and by saving their rations,accumulate a fund with which to purchase delicacies for theirsick. Volunteers in this, as in other matters, suffer from theirinexperience. Soon it was found that sick men needed somethingmore than medicines, and that convalescents even could neitherrelish nor assimilate bacon, beans and hard tack. A seriouscondition soon con Iron led the regiment. We were in a countrywhere milk was difficult to procure and ice not to be had inlarge quantities. The latter had to be made artificially, andthe large number of troops
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