This reminds me of two photos I have of the 19th Infantry camp before and after the big hurricane that hit Texas while my great-grandfather was serving during the Punitive Expedition.
While colorizing old photos usually isn't something I'm keen on, I wish somebody would do that with these "yard longs" out of Texas. These photos seem to depict camps which are on the far edge of grim. I fear that they may have been ever bit as grim as they look.
I'd be tempted to say that it's amazing that disease didn't break out like it did under worse but similar conditions in the Mexican War, in the same localities, but of course it did, as such conditions helped spread the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, which broke out, most believe, at Camp Funston Kansas first.
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This reminds me of two photos I have of the 19th Infantry camp before and after the big hurricane that hit Texas while my great-grandfather was serving during the Punitive Expedition.
While colorizing old photos usually isn't something I'm keen on, I wish somebody would do that with these "yard longs" out of Texas. These photos seem to depict camps which are on the far edge of grim. I fear that they may have been ever bit as grim as they look.
I'd be tempted to say that it's amazing that disease didn't break out like it did under worse but similar conditions in the Mexican War, in the same localities, but of course it did, as such conditions helped spread the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, which broke out, most believe, at Camp Funston Kansas first.
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