We have much more room in this house than we had in the hospital, and
are more comfortable every way.
Almost every day or evening there is
some sort of an entertainment - german, dinner, luncheon, or card
party. I am so glad that we gave the first cotillon that had ever been
given in the regiment, for it was something new on the frontier;
therefore everyone enjoyed it. Just now the garrison seems to have
gone cotillon crazy, and not being satisfied with a number of private
ones, a german club has been organized that gives dances in the hall
every two weeks. So far Faye has been the leader of each one. With all
this pleasure, the soldiers are not being neglected. Every morning
there are drills and a funny kind of target practice inside the
quarters, and of course there are inspections and other things.
FORT ELLIS, MONTANA TERRITORY,
January, 1879.
IT is still cold, stinging cold, and we are beginning to think that
there was much truth in what we were told on our way over last
fall - that Fort Ellis is the very coldest place in the whole
territory. For two days the temperature was fifty below, and I can
assure you that things hummed! The logs of our house made loud reports
like pistol shots, and there was frost on the walls of every room that
were not near roaring fires. No one ventures forth such weather unless
compelled to do so, and then, of course, every precaution is taken to
guard against freezing.
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