the chaplains of the camp often rendering assistance.
Secondly, I have noticed the Y.M.C.A. men visiting the sick in the
hospitals and camps, giving the word of exhortation and help to the
sick. Perhaps, however, in their work of private conversation with the
well men, they have done as much real service for God as in either of
the other two fields. They have made the acquaintance of many men and
have won the respect of the camp. This I have numbered as the third
division of their work--personal contact with the soldiers of the
camp, at the same time keeping themselves "unspotted from the world."

B.

The 24th Infantry was ordered down to Siboney to do guard
duty. When the regiment reached the yellow-fever hospital it
was found to be in a deplorable condition. Men were dying
there every hour for the lack of proper nursing. Major
Markley, who had commanded the regiment since July 1st, when
Colonel Liscum was wounded, drew his regiment up in line,
and Dr. La Garde, in charge of the hospital, explained the
needs of the suffering, at the same time clearly setting
forth the danger to men who were not immune, of nursing and
attending yellow-fever patients. Major Markley then said
that any man who wished to volunteer to nurse in the
yellow-fever hospital could step forward. The whole regiment
stepped forward. Sixty men were selected from the volunteers
to nurse, and within forty-eight hours forty-two of these
brave fellows were down seriously ill with yellow or
pernicious malarial fever. Again the regiment was drawn up
in line, and again Major Markley said that nurses were
needed, and that any man who wished to do so could
volunteer. After the object lesson which the men had
received in the last few days of the danger from contagion
to which they would be exposed, it was now unnecessary for
Dr. La Garde to again warn the brave blacks of the terrible
contagion. When the request for volunteers to replace those
who had already fallen in the performance of their dangerous
and perfectly optional duty was made again, the regiment
stepped forward as one man. When sent down from the trenches
the regiment consisted of eight companies, averaging about
forty men each. Of the officers and men who remained on duty
the forty days spent in Siboney, only twenty-four escaped
without serious i