I wouldn't have stayed in their class long.
DICK.
TAMPA, May 29, 1898.
DEAR CHAS.: The cigars came; they are O.K.and a great treat after Tampa products.
Captain Lee and I went out to the volunteer camps today: Florida, Alabama, Ohio and Michigan, General Lee's push, and it has depressed me very much.

I have been so right about so many things these last five years, and was laughed at for making much of them.

Now all I urged is proved to be correct; nothing our men wear is right.

The shoes, the hats, the coats, all are dangerous to health and comfort; one-third of the men cannot wear the regulation shoe because it cuts the instep, and buy their own, and the volunteers are like the Cuban army in appearance.

The Greek army, at which I made such sport, is a fine organization in comparison as far as outfit goes; of course, there is no comparison in the spirit of the men.