Our Rooms
Were Facing Just Right To Catch The Full Force Of The Blizzard.
The
straightening-out was exceedingly unpleasant, for a fire could not be
started in either stove until after the snow had been swept out.
But a
few soldiers can work miracles at times, and this proved to be one of
the times. I went over to the orderly room while they brushed and
scraped everywhere and fixed us up nicely, and we were soon warm and
dry.
The norther continued twenty-four hours, and the cold is still
freezing. All the wood inside was soon consumed, and the men were
compelled to go outside the redoubt for it, and to split it, too. The
storm was so fierce and wholly blinding that it was necessary to
fasten the end of a rope around the waist of each man as he went out,
and tie the other end to the entrance gate to prevent him from losing
his direction and wandering out on the plains. Even with this
precaution it was impossible for a man to remain out longer than ten
minutes, because of the terribly cold wind that at times was almost
impossible to stand up against.
Faye says that he cannot understand why the place has never been made
habitable, or why Lieutenant Cole did not have the wood brought
inside, where it would be convenient in case of a storm. Some of the
men are working at the wood still, and others are making their
quarters' a little more decent.
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