. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. remade. This had been the order from the starting point,and the boys began to feel the effects of being cooped upin such close quarters. But it proved Col. Fosterthoroughly understood what to do under the circum-stances, as the section following us, bear
. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. remade. This had been the order from the starting point,and the boys began to feel the effects of being cooped upin such close quarters. But it proved Col. Fosterthoroughly understood what to do under the circum-stances, as the section following us, bearing the 3rd bat-talion, allowed their men to get out at Alexandria, Va.,and the consecjuence was one hundred and fifty of themcould not be found when the train pulled out and theywere left behind. They were fortunate in the fact of an-other section following them, which they boarded; onlyfor this they would have been placed in an unenviableposition as no one seemed to know whether they missedthe train by accident or design. We were soon among the mountains of West Vir-ginia, and to those of us who had seen nothing but a fewhills in our native State it was grand. The road-bed be-ing about half way up the mountain side and in most pla-ces having been blasted from solid rock, below us wecould see tiny villages and small streams. Railroads. Scenes Alon(; tiik Route. 145 were also in these valleys: they with their engines andtrains appeared to ns as toys. Looking up on the opposite side in some places themountain side was nearly perpendicular with great over-hanging rocks which looked as though they were readyto topple upon us at any moment. Small streams camedashing down, the water being as clear as crystal. Wecrossed innumerable streams, all rushing along at a ter-ritic pace. We passed through a number of tunnels, thelongest one being about one and one-half miles in was so dark it was thick, and the smoke crept in arounddoors and windows until it b?cam e stifling. Once i
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