They Must Have Come Home For Shelter
And Become Confused And Blinded By The Lights In The Tents, And The
Loss Of Their Ground.
We must be going through a splendid country for
game.
I was very ill for several days on the way up, the result of
malaria - perhaps too many scuppernong grapes at Pass Christian, and
jolting of the heavy army wagon that makes a small stone seem the size
of a boulder. One morning I was unable to walk or even stand up, and
Faye and Major Bryant carried me to the wagon on a buffalo robe. All
of that day's march Faye walked by the side of my wagon, and that
allowed him no rest whatever, for in order to make it as easy for me
as possible, my wagon had been placed at the extreme end of the long
line. The troops march fifty minutes and halt ten, and as we went much
slower than the men marched, we would about catch up with the column
at each rest, just when the bugle would be blown to fall in line
again, and then on the troops and wagons would go, Faye was kept on a
continuous tramp. I still think that he should have asked permission
to ride on the wagon, part of the day at least, but he would not do
so.
One evening when the camp was near a ranch, I heard Doctor Gordon tell
Faye outside the tent that I must be left at the place in the morning,
that I was too ill to go farther!
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