If the enlisted men were not luxuriously quartered in the early days at Fort Warren, the commissioned officers certainly were not much better off. The colonel, with his fourteen field and staff officers, went to housekeeping in three rooms in the second casemate to the eastward of the sallyport, while the first casemate to the westward found its eight rooms well populated with the thirty-five officers of the line. The room assigned to the lieutenant-colonel, the three majors, and the surgeon was a type of garrison luxury. It was lighted and aired by three narrow musketry loopholes, which afforded a somewhat monotonous view of the main ditch and sodded slope of the northern cover-face, while its contracted area was taken up in part by five cots, as many fieldchests, and a variable number of camp-stools. But it had an open grate, in which a coal fire was always glowing, and on the nights when the rain drove down upon the muddy parade, or the impenetrable fog swept over the ramparts, it was far from lacking in comfort. As a matter of fact, the enlisted men were extremely well provided for, since each house in the battery streets ultimately was equipped with a coal stove and with lamps in plenty, while volunteer ingenuity was not long in providing bunks, arm-racks, and cupboards. As a rule, there were about fifteen men, under the proper non-commissioned officers, quartered in each shack, an allowance which gave ample space. When the command reported at the fort, it was in excellent condition so far as concerned its health, and its officers purposed to keep it so. It is worth noting that on the day after its arrival, in spite of the fatigue, exposure, and excitement attendant upon its departure from home, there was not a single response at morning surgeon's call, which was nothing less than remarkable when it is recalled that here were over seven hundred and fifty men, fresh from office, shop, and factory, who had slept in damp uniforms, and in most uncomfortable quarters. This good record in the matter of health was maintained to the end of the regiment's term of service, and that it was so maintained is due to more than mere chance. Rigid rules, rigidly enforced, were laid down for camp sanitary matters, and minute inspections were daily made by both battalion and battery commanders, while the medical officers were alert and untiring in looking to the welfare of the men. The trying and unseasonable weather of late April and early May, together with the heavy details brought under exposure on guard and patrol duty, resulted in some sickness, but at no time was the hospital list unduly large. In its service of over six months there was but one death in the regiment, and this casualty occurred in the case of a man who contracted scarlet fever, and died while on mustering-out furlough. All through the summer the regiment improved in health and physique, and when finally it returned from the field it was in the pink of condition for further service.