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58 -- First Nevada Troops Off for the War

84 in all, including three officers -- They boarded the east bound train and left about 9 o'clock -- Then the people subsided homeward -- Governor Sadler came down from Carson with our soldier boys and I met him -- He says he will have another troop organized and ready shortly -- Enlistment rapidly progressing already, the surplus of this first troop joining it -- Probably go to Manila -- This is Reno's second view of the war in the shape of soldiers rushing to the front -- the first being Lieut Hubbard who left here in a troop by himself April 21 -- Bed 12 -- cloudy -- This cavalry troop just departed consists of:

War New Summary -- 1898
1st Nevada Cavalry -- Gunboat Winslow Avenged

60 -- War News Quiet -- Tim Dempsey Very Sick
Journal Job completed -- The Time it Takes

Sunday May 15

Cloudy & colder with a few light showers -- I wrote hard, as usual on my Journal job and have it completed down the last month December -- Was down town in evening -- No later war news -- Sampson don't find the Spanish fleet he is after -- Met Ed Higgins from Carson on the evening train and he told me Dempsey is very sick last three or four days, confined to his bed and liable to die shortly -- Frank Folsom is running the saloon for him -- Bed 11 --