Excerpt from The Battle of Santiago on Board the United States Battleship TexasAt nine o'clock, Captain Philip came to my room and asked how I was getting along. His good-natured face, with the smile it always bore, cheered me exceedingly. Then, in his jocular manner, he said: Well, Chaplain, I guess you want to go out on a farm. I said: No, sir, I do not. N o 1 said he, You want to go home, then. I replied: Yes, Captain, if I'm going to be laid up I want to go home, as I do not care to be ill down here, but do not wish to appear as shirking my duty. Let us wait and see how you are later on in the day, said the Captain, and, with a word of cheer, he bade me adieu.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.