THE LADIES MADE THEM "The uniforms are all on.  They are admirable fits, all of them, except say eighty or 100 of them.  I now speak of the Grays.  The majority of the boys are able to get their pantaloons from the floor by buttoning the waist-bands around their necks.  Others accomplish this desirable result by bringing the waist-bands tight up under the arms and rolling them up six or eight inches at the bottom.  To be sure, this is a little inconvenient in some respects.  A fellow has to take off his belt, then his coat, and then ascend one story before he can reach his pockets, and after reaching them they are so deep that one has to take the pants off entirely before he can reach the bottom.  Each pocket will hold a shirt, blanket and even the wearer himself, if at any time he finds such a retreat necessary.  And the coats fit beautifully-almost, in fact, as well as the pants.  To be sure, half of them are two feet too large around the waist and almost as much too small around the chest, but then these two drawbacks admirably offset each other.  In the case of fifteen or twenty of them, the tip of the collar is but a trifle above the small of the wearer's back, and in the case of about as many more the same article is a few inches above the head of its owner.  The same collar, also, in some cases terminates beneath each ear of the wearer and in many others it sweeps way around in magnificent curves, forming a vast basin whose rim is yards distant from the neck of the possessor, and the sleeves, too, have here and there a fault.  Some are so tight under the arms that they lift one up as if he were swinging upon a couple of ropes that passed under his armpits.  Others strike boldly out and do not terminate their voluminous course till at a distance of several inches beyond the tips of his fingers, whole others conclude their journey after marching an inch or two below the elbows.  With these few exceptions the coats and pantaloons fit magnificently, and are admired as being the finest in the reginment." Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L