ONCE Again We Have Our Trunks Packed For The Long Trip To Montana, And
This Time I Think We Will Go, As The Special Train That Is To Take Us
Is Now At The Station, And Baggage Of The Regiment Is Being Hurriedly
Loaded.
Word came this morning that the regiment would start to-night,
so it seems that at last General Sherman has gained his point.
For
three long weeks we have been kept here in suspense - packing and then
unpacking - one day we were to go, the next we were not to go, while
the commanding general and the division commander were playing "tug of
war" with us.
The trip will be long and very expensive, and we go from a hot climate
to a cold one at a season when the immediate purchase of warm clothing
is imperative, and with all this unexpected expense we have been
forced to pay big hotel bills for weeks, just because of a
disagreement between two generals that should have been settled in one
day. Money is very precious to the poor Army at present, too, for not
one dollar has been paid to officers or enlisted men for over three
months! How officers with large families can possibly manage this move
I do not see - sell their pay accounts I expect, and then be court
martialed for having done so.
Congress failed to pass the army appropriation bill before it
adjourned, consequently no money can be paid to the Army until the
next session!
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