That is the kind of "united country" we saw in the South.

I must pass over the events and incidents of camp life at Chickamauga and Tampa.

Up to this time our trip had seemed more like a Sunday-school excursion than anything else.

But when, on June 6th, we were ordered to divest ourselves of all clothing and equipage, except such as was necessary to campaigning in a tropical climate, for the first time the ghost of real warfare arose before us.
ON BOARD THE TRANSPORT.
The regiment went aboard the Government transport, No.
14--Concho--June 7, 1898.

On the same vessel were the 14th U.S.
Infantry, a battalion of the 2d Massachusetts Volunteers and Brigade Headquarters, aggregating about 1,300 soldiers, exclusive of the officers.