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walk not to speak of carrying heavy burdens 

 when we had no transportation. Not more than 

 half of the men could carry their rolls, and yet 

 these, with the officers' baggage and provisions, the 

 entire hospital and its appurtenances, etc., had to be 

 transported somehow. It was usually about three 

 days after we reached a new camp before the neces- 

 saries which had been left behind could be brought 

 up, and during these three days we had to get along 

 as best we could. The entire lack of transportation 

 at first resulted in leaving most of the troop mess- 

 kits on the beach, and we were never able to get 

 them. The men cooked in the few utensils they 

 could themselves carry. This rendered it impossi- 

 ble to boil the drinking water. Closely allied to the 

 lack of transportation was the lack of means to 

 land supplies from the transports. 



In my opinion, the deficiency in transportation 

 was the worst evil with which we had to contend, 

 serious though some of the others were. I have 

 never served before, so have no means of comparing 

 this with previous campaigns. I was often told 

 by officers who had seen service against the Indians 

 that, relatively to the size of the army, and the char- 

 acter of the country, we had only a small fraction 

 of the transportation always used in the Indian cam- 

 paigns. As far as my regiment was concerned, we 

 certainly did not have one-third of the amount ab- 

 solutely necessary, if it was to be kept in fair con- 

 dition, and we had to partially make good the de- 



