Yesterday - The Day After I Got Here - I Was Positively Ill From The
Awful Shaking Up, Mental As Well As Physical, I Received On That Stage
Ride.
We reached Benton at eleven.
Faye was at the hotel with an
ambulance when the stage drove up, and it was amusing to look at the
faces of those men when they saw Faye in his uniform, and the
government outfit. We started for camp at once, and left them standing
on the hotel porch watching us as we drove down the street. It is a
pity that such men cannot be compelled to serve at least one
enlistment in the Army, and be drilled into something that resembles a
real man. But perhaps recruiting officers would not accept them.
FORT SHAW, MONTANA TERRITORY,
October, 1878.
MY stay at the little town of Sun River Crossing was short, for when I
arrived there the other day in the stage from Benton, I found a note
awaiting me from Mrs. Bourke, saying that I must come right on to Fort
Shaw, so I got back in the stage and came to the post, a distance of
five miles, where General Bourke was on the lookout for me. He is in
command of the regiment as well as the post, as Colonel Fitz-James is
still in Europe. Of course regimental headquarters and the band are
here, which makes the garrison seem very lively to me. The band is out
at guard mounting every pleasant morning, and each Friday evening
there is a fine concert in the hall by the orchestra, after which we
have a little dance.
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