Annals of Iowa, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Annals of Iowa, Vol. 3: October 1898 Our first night with the command was spent in camp near Medium Lake. The next morning we ate our scanty meal, struck camp, and were on the march shortly after sunrise, toiling through the snows which were growing deeper as we went northward. We found ourselves at night in camp near Mud Lakes. Here was an opportunitv for the officers to show their interest in their commands and their good judg ment in a most commendable manner. Many of the men were so exhausted that on coming into camp they threw themselves upon their blankets and were determined to sleep without a mouthful of food, and the picture is before me until this day, of Capt. Charles B. Richards and Lieutenant F. A. Stratton, of our company, with two or three of the men, cutting wood, punching the fire, and baking pancakes, until long after midnight, and as they would get enough baked for a meal they would waken some tired and hungry man and give him his supper: and the exercises in Company A were but a sample of what was in progress in each of the companies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.