Wednesday, May 18th, 1898  

May 18/98
this is a beautifull Morning had 2 drills in the for now and pretty near all of us receive letters from Home at 7 pm we receive Orders to pack up and leave for SanFrancisco and from there to join Dewy at Manilla all the Boys are overcome with Joy and in 40 minutes time we had packed everythink on the train and are ready at 9:40 to leave Mt Gretna all remaining Soldiers gave us a good send of

This is a beautiful morning. We had two drills in the (for now???). Pretty near all of us received letters from home. At 7 p.m. we received orders to pack up and leave for San Francisco and from there to join Admiral [George] Dewey at Manilla. All the boys are overcome with joy and in forty minutes we had packed everything on the train and are ready at 9:40 p.m. to leave Mt. Gretna. All remaining soldiers gave us a good send off.