![]() The roads are so blocked with incoming trains of soldiers that it is impossible to get the food here. ![]() While on the train we had hard tack and plenty of corned beef, coffee and beans, but since coming here the grub has been awful. While after paper I also bought yeast and we expect to have some bread tomorrow, the first since leaving Topeka. This morning I secured permission to leave camp and walked four miles to get the paper on which I am writing this. I would have written you sooner since arriving here but had nothing to write on. on May 23: I received your letter inclosing one from Miss Dickinson just as we were tearing down our tents in Topeka last Tuesday and barely had time to send you a postal card. Walter Muntz wrote to his father and sister in Conway Springs, Kan. ![]() There is little history of the 21st, but fortunately several letters from Walter Muntz have survived. ![]() Camp Thomas was located on the site of the Civil War battle of Chickamauga, Ga. The regiment left town by rail on May 17 for its new home, Camp George H. The 12 companies of the 21st Kansas Volunteers were mustered into United States service in Topeka from May 12-14, 1898. ![]()
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