Well, I Obligingly Furnished Amusement For Faye And Lieutenant Baldwin
Until They Asked Me To Fire A Heavy Springfield Rifle - An Infantry
Gun.
After one shot I politely refused to touch the tiling again.
The
noise came near making me deaf for life; the big thing rudely "kicked"
me over on my back, and the bullet - I expect that ball is still on
its way to Mars or perhaps the moon. This earth it certainly did not
hit! Faye is with the company almost every morning, but after luncheon
we usually go out for two or three hours, and always come back
refreshed by the exercise. And the little house looks more cozy, and
the snapping of the blazing logs sounds more cheerful because of our
having been away from them.
FORT LYON, COLORADO TEKRITORY,
April, 1872.
SOME of the most dreadful things have occurred since I wrote you last,
and this letter will make you unhappy, I know. To begin with, orders
have actually come from Department Headquarters at Leavenworth for two
companies of infantry here - General Phillips' and Captain
Giddings' - to go to Camp Supply! So that is settled, and we will
probably leave this post in about ten days, and during that time we
are expected to sell, give away, smash up, or burn about everything we
possess, for we have already been told that very few things can be
taken with us. I do not see how we can possibly do with less than we
have had since we came here.
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