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wish to bring to your notice the fortitude displayed 

 by the men of your regiment, who have come before 

 me to be mustered out of service, in making their 

 personal declarations as to their physical conditions. 

 Men who bore on their faces and in their forms the 

 traces of long days of illness, indicating wrecked 

 constitutions, declared that nothing was the matter 

 with them, at the same time disclaiming any inten- 

 tion of applying for a pension. It was exceptionally 

 heroic." 



When we were mustered out, many of the men 

 had lost their jobs, and were too weak to go to 

 work at once, while there were helpless dependants 

 of the dead to care for. Certain of my friends, 

 August Belmont, Stanley and Richard Mortimer, 

 Major Austin Wadsworth himself fresh from the 

 Manila campaign Belmont Tiffany, and others, 

 gave me sums of money to be used for helping these 

 men. In some instances, by the exercise of a good 

 deal of tact and by treating the gift as a memorial 

 of poor young Lieutenant Tiffany, we got the men 

 to accept something; and, of course, there were a 

 number who, quite rightly, made no difficulty about 

 accepting. But most of the men would accept no 

 help whatever. In the first chapter, I spoke of a 

 lady, a teacher in an academy in the Indian Terri- 

 tory, three or four of whose pupils had come into 

 my regiment, and who had sent with them a letter 



