The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-26

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TII-SI.ATE REUNION.
An Old Soldier Gives Some Leaves from
Ills Diary.
TO the Editor Of The LatcIIigeReer
slR:-Ia view OF the Tri-sEate Reunion
to be held on Wheeling Island September
9gd and 93d, the first movement Of which
was inaugura!ed at New Cumberland, W.
Va, May q last, by some OF the survivors
bf the First Virginia Infantry, by your
permission / extract from my diary the
following, which may be Of interest to the
surviving members Of the First Regiment,
their friends and the public generally. l
quote as follows:
Wellsburg, May IS, lS6l-OTgani2ed our
Company &c" this morning; left for
Wheeling on the steamer Conroy, Capt
Abner O'NeNli arrived at Wheeling
Island at $3.50 =. M; 80 into quarters on
the Fair Grounds in an open shed.
Sunday, May l0.-ProspeCts for break
fast not ilattering, Quite a number break.
fast with Capt. I, q, Parke's company, OF
WelIsburg, which preceded us some days.
Cooking utensils provided, and breakfast
soon made ready. Boys in good splrits
WStood" my frat guard duty last night,
They call it"Quarter guard" Preaching
at Bpm
May 2O.-Moved quarters. Getting q
little used to camp lie.
May 2l.-Sworn into the United States
volunteer army for three months, Rev.
ellie s A. NJ. Tattoo, l0P.M. We call our
company the "Brooke Cakes Guards"
Brooke, for our native county, Cakes, for
Major Cakes, OF the regular army, who
mustered us into the service.
May 23.-Returned to Wellsburg via
Bridgeport, o., on the II A. NJ. train, to
attend an election. Leave Wellsburg at
4p.M. Escorted out OF town by Home
Guards and q Pittsburgh company, quar-
tered there.
May 24-Fine weather. Boys all having
a good time. The ladies OF Bridgeport
gave tho two Wellsburg companies first
class dinner to-day.
May 25-0ur encampment Is called
Camp Carlisle" in honor Of John S. Oar
Isle, a prominent Union man.
May 2G-Many friends from Wellsburg
called to see US to-day.
Midnight. Alarml Orders 10 get ready
to march. Great excitement. Saw one
good boy peruaing his testament.
Monday, May 27-Depart for parts un.
known on the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad.
Got started in fine humor. Arrived at
place OF destination about 3 =. NJ. Some OF
us take q nap. Had company drill. Sup.
per, first We had to eat since morning.
Made our bed on the ground. (This was
something entirely now to us, IS on the
Island we managed to gather up enough
boards to keep us of tho ground.) We
have no tents. No cartridge or cap boxes,
carrying our ammunition in our pockets.
Neither have we uniforms. Rather mot.
ley crew.
May 2S-I forgot to state in the proper
place who are the officers Of our company.
They arc as follows: James I. Kuhn,
Captain; A. W. Kuhn and James White,
Lieutenantsi Thomas Bell, Orderly Ser.
geant.
May 2O-Camped alongside Of the rail.
road. Made quarters as comfortable as
possible out OF rails and brush. Heavy
rain. Everybody wet. Three hundred
Ohio troops arrive, making the Sixteenth
Ohio Regiment complete in numbera
Furnished cartridge boxes. B. +. Kelly
is Colonel Of the regiment, and tits known
as the First Regiment Virginia Volunteer
Infantry. Our Campis called Buffalo," a
creek by that name runs past the camp.
May 3O-Got up to prepare breakfast.
RationB played out. Men get hungry and
10 out and bring in turkeys, geese,
chickens, pigs and beef. First class din.
ner the result A sad accident occurred
to-day, Frederick Terrell, OF our company,
was accidentally shot and killed by a mus.
kot ball in the hands OF Comrade. The
same ball also wounded another soldier
named Murdoch, in the thigh.
u May 3l-Ferrell buried at or near Man.
nington, Va, with military hOnors. Left
for Grafton, arrived 5 r. NJ, June /, under
marching orders. More grumbllng about
grub. Marching Sunday, June 2, 8 A. NJ.
pack up. All aboard the cars, bound for
Phillippi. Get OF cars at Thornton sta.
ton and take up line OF march. THE boys
will remember the march without 1t being
recorded here.) The next morning we
enter the town OF Phillippi. The Cleve.
land battery Smelling the enemy. Col.
Kelley wounded.
II will be seen from the foregoing that
we were all inexperienced and not skilled
In warfare or camp life, and that we left
Wheeling, you may say, unorganized, not
knowing any OF US (unless 1t was the off.
GERS who were our Commanders) what a
colonel or regiment was. We were
there to obey orders and perform the duty
which We were sworn to do.
And how soon VIC learned. And what
a comparison with the three months"
aud the three years service. But none OF
the boys are ashamed Of their three
months record. They did all that was re.
quired Of them, and to-day many are more
proud Of their three months campaign
than OF the balance Of the service. Why 2
We will let the reader who Ia familiar
with the struggle and all the early Incl.
dents thereto draw his own conclusions.
Mr.. Editor, have been solicited by o
number Of my comrades to furnish you
the foregoing at this time % q reminder 10
our surviving comrades 10 arouse and
make tho first reunion Of the First Regi.
ment, Va. Vol. Infantry on the old camp
ground on Wheeling Island thing ever
10 be- remembered, credit to themselves,
to Wheeling and 10 the Panhandle gen.
orally. GRoRdE B. CRAWFORD,
Go. g, let Reg. Va, Vol. Init.
LSSS--
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