And the bugs, which keep us all in perpetual
warfare in our houses, have full sway there, going from one room to
the other.
The officers say that the negroes make good soldiers and fight like
fiends. They certainly manage to stick on their horses like monkeys.
The Indians call them "buffalo soldiers," because their woolly heads
are so much like the matted cushion that is between the horns of the
buffalo. We had letters from dear old Fort Lyon yesterday, and the
news about Lieutenant Baldwin is not encouraging. He is not improving
and Doctor Wilder is most anxious about him. But a man as big and
strong as he was must certainly get well in time.
CAMP SUPPLY, INDIAN TERRITORY,
June, 1872.
IT seems as if I had to write constantly of unpleasant occurrences,
but what else can I do since unpleasant occurrences are ever coming
along? This time I must tell you that Faye has been turned out of
quarters - "ranked out," as it is spoken of in the Army. But it all
amounts to the same thing, and means that we have been driven out of
our house and home, bag and baggage, because a captain wanted that one
set of quarters!
