Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner . be at Aibonito, aboutthirty miles from here. I do not know whether we shall move onthem soon or not, as the unloading is very slow,owing to the fact that there are no tugs and onlya few steam launches belonging to the Navy. The rumors of peace are thick, and everyone is more disgusted than ever. I am notbloodthirsty; but I should like to see a littlereal fighting after all the farce. I slung my hammock in a rose gardenunder a trellis and tried that method the othernight, but the mosquitoes drove me in. Mostof the Staff live in a fine house with the ga
Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner . be at Aibonito, aboutthirty miles from here. I do not know whether we shall move onthem soon or not, as the unloading is very slow,owing to the fact that there are no tugs and onlya few steam launches belonging to the Navy. The rumors of peace are thick, and everyone is more disgusted than ever. I am notbloodthirsty; but I should like to see a littlereal fighting after all the farce. I slung my hammock in a rose gardenunder a trellis and tried that method the othernight, but the mosquitoes drove me in. Mostof the Staff live in a fine house with the gar-den I speak of behind. We have real chinaand glass, a good table managed by the NewYork Sun war correspondent, and Mr. Abra-ham Bryan Sweetwine, a colored gentlemanthat we picked up somehow in Charleston,South Carolina, to wait on table in a whitejacket and apron. I suppose when we getonto hardtack and bacon, in the field, weshall miss all this ! I 28 3 Augustus Peabody Gardner Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General in the Spanish War 1. TO HIS WIFE I only wish I could picture the scene hereat Headquarters in the Commandants , telephone, telegraph all goingat once; guards, orderlies, officers, dagoes,spies, interpreters, damfools, newspaper men,all jabbering. Papers, telegrams, and ordersflying in all directions. False reports of en-gagements, sacking, pillage, etc., coming inon the wire. Everything going with a whoopamid cursing and swearing and injustice andconfusion. I can hear now in the next roomtwo officers each trying to drown the othersvoice in dictating to stenographers. I send you the initial copy of the J^ew Era,The officer who landed and stated his termswas your Uncle Harry, i To His Wife August Af^ 1898 Dearest Constance : We expect to move this afternoon, so I drop you a hurried line. The Colonel and Lieu- ^ Rear Admiral 29 ] LETTERS OF AUGUSTUS P. GARDNERtenant-Colonel and two other officers of theSixth Massachusetts (now in this comman
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