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| 196 special train of 13 cars, left Baltimore, under command of Colonel Markoe, on the evening of July 10, and reached Cape May at 7.30 o'clock the next morning, tired and hungry. It had been expected that the special would run through to Cape May, but like many other of the best laid plans of mice and men it went aglee. There was a long wait at Philadelphia, and the men had to march through the city and take a train on the east side of the^Delaware. There was no sleep on the train. Some COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT, CAMP ZOLLINGEK, CAPE MAY, 1895. tried it, but it was in violation of precedent, and the boys would not permit it. At Cape May, an early dip in the ocean removed the dust of travel, and a good hot breakfast was awaiting the men, prepared under the direction of the commissary r Captain E. C. Johnson and his assistant, Sergeant E. B. DuVal. The camp was prettily situated in a grassy field some distance from the ocean. In it there were 302 tents. The next day after the arrival, Saturday, General Stewart |