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pacity of Colonel Weston, the Commissary-General 

 with the expedition. If it had not been for his 

 active aid, we should have fared worse than 

 we did. All that he could do for us, he most cheer- 

 fully did. 



As regards the clothing, I have to say: As to 

 the first issue, the blue shirts were excellent of 

 their kind, but altogether too hot for Cuba. They 

 are just what I used to wear in Montana. The 

 leggings were good; the shoes were very good; 

 the undershirts not very good, and the drawers bad 

 being of heavy, thick canton flannel, difficult to 

 wash, and entirely unfit for a tropical climate. The 

 trousers were poor, wearing badly. We did not get 

 any other clothing until we were just about to 

 leave Cuba, by which time most of the men were in 

 tatters ; some being actually barefooted, while others 

 were in rags, or dressed partly in clothes captured 

 from the Spaniards, who were much more suitably 

 clothed for the climate and place than we were. 

 The ponchos were poor, being inferior to the Span- 

 ish rain-coats which we captured. 



As to the medical matters, I invite your atten- 

 tion, not only to the report of Dr. Church accom- 

 panying this letter, but to the letters of Captain 

 Llewellen, Captain Day, and Lieutenant Mcllhenny. 

 I could readily produce a hundred letters on the 

 lines of the last three. In actual medical supplies, 

 we had plenty of quinine and cathartics. We were 

 apt to be short on other medicines, and we had noth- 

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