History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . t every day must be steamed into worthlessness. butclothes and overcoats that hung for months in the tentspassed without it. At first men were stripped and dressedin pajamas to stand around like hospital convalescents,while their every piece of clothing went in the cylinder;but this got wearisome for the management and such care-fulness was afterward dispensed with, but such articles aswere steamed got two hundred and twenty degrees fortwenty minutes, and the most skeptical had but to lay thetip of his little fin
History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . t every day must be steamed into worthlessness. butclothes and overcoats that hung for months in the tentspassed without it. At first men were stripped and dressedin pajamas to stand around like hospital convalescents,while their every piece of clothing went in the cylinder;but this got wearisome for the management and such care-fulness was afterward dispensed with, but such articles aswere steamed got two hundred and twenty degrees fortwenty minutes, and the most skeptical had but to lay thetip of his little finger on them as they emerged to be mostthoroughly convinced that every flea. United States gray-back and every vermin of every kind, carrying concealedabout his person any contagious microbes of smallpox oryellow fever, had suffered a most horrible death; but theydeserved it all for what they did to us in Cuba. Anyleather that went felt in awful little when it came out, as ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. IQI the accompanying cut will fully demonstrate to a Most leather goods were dipped in a solution of water,bichloride of mercury and sodium chloride and dirt, whileboxed articles were sprinkled with sawdust, moistened witha solution of formaldehyde or some such concoction of sim-ilar name; it was a big nuisance and a regular April fool butno doubt a great life saving station and all its attendantsworthy a medal of honer from its superintendant to thesmallboy who slipped the officers red chalk to O. goods, for if those terrible microbes who camewith us, transportation free, from Cuba had ever got loose,the entire south would have been overwhelmed with anappalling loss of life. We might in return for courtesyreceived, suggest to its worthy proprietors an excellentmotto a thing worth doing is worth doing well. Per- 192 HISTORY OF THE sonal fumigation being over, at 2:40, with empty stomachs,we embarked on the Santee and, assisted by the Dauntles
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