The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-28
THE UNIV ELL N G..
ROANOKE'S MILITARY LEAVES
THIS MORNING.
WILL CARRY SEVHNqY-FIVE MEN.
The noys are onivering with Ex-
element over the PrOspcci-The JEFF
Davis Rifles Will Gothic Machine
Works Band Furnishes tho Music.

''On to Richmond was the cry al
over Roanoke yesterday.
1t looked as if the inhabitants o.
Roanoke had decided to move ell
masse against the city and the rail
road officers were beseiged with ap
plications for tickets. The trains
leaving here today and this evening
will be crowded with militia and ole
veterans who long to look once more
on the noble face of the Grand Com
mander.
The sale of tickets has been the
largest known in Roanoke for years
and the nimble fingers of the agent
have been kept busy all day long
The fare over the Norfolk and West
ern is 1918, somewhat smaller than
the usual fare one way. For the mil
itary it is considerably less and APP
proXilnates just little over So for
the round trip.
The Southwest contingent to Rich
mond, will he something to be proud
of. Pulaski City will send its com.
pany of brave soldier boys, Salem will
send the jeff Davis Guards, and
Roanoke will send the crack company
of Virginia. the Light Infantry.
This is the largest company in the
State, and has recently been entirely
furnished with new outfit of arms
ond uniforms and they will make q
splendid appearance. The majority
OF the boys have decided to go.
They have been making prepara
tions for some and will leave
at 10 this morning with seventy-hve
men, in full dress uniform with all ac-
coutrements, and will be accompan-
led by the Roanoke Machine Works
Band of twenty-eight pieces. When
they arrive at Richmond, they will
march to the Exposition grounds
where their quarters will be, keeping
step to the martial music OF the
band.
The boys will assemble at their
armory on Second street at $50 o'clock
this morning, and about 8 will parade
the principal streets OF the city,
headed by the band. Brooks, the pho
tographer, will take a picture of the
company in front of the office build
ing of the Norfolk and Western Com
pany. Fifth Sergeant Charles K.
Bush is color-b bearer of the company,
and their banner is beauty. 1t
was painted by Will Carr, and cost
the company $50 -
When No. 4 arrives, it will bring
with it the jeff Davis Rifles of Salem,
with twenty men and possibly the
Pulaski Guards. They will join the
Roanoke company here and proceed
to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. On each side
of the train will be hung piece of
canvas fifty feet long, with Roanoke
Light Infantry printed upon it in
letters two feet high. 1t will be a
iolly crowd and they are going for I.
big time. Let cora juice alone, boys,
while you are away.
The officers and privates OF the
Roanoke Company, who will attend,
are as follows: Captain, S S Brooke:
first lieutenant, Charles Lyle; second
lieutenant, b A Rives; junior second
lieutenant, w b Moss. First ser
geant, L Lyle; second, G I Peek;
third, Archer l. Payne; fourth, W ID
Pretzman; fifth, Charles K Bush;
quartermaster, NJ Med Pritchard.
First corporal, WV Wev; second, a
P Taliaferro; third, c A Carpenter;
fourth. w j Henshall; fifth, a b Bolts,
ir. Privates, Abbott, Beamer Ben
nett. Bently. Burks, Brodie, Bussey,
Chapman. Crute, Childs, Clingenpeel,
Carson. Dickinson, w. A; Dickinson,
H. NJ, Dyer,J w, Dyer n. c., Ehrhart,
Elliott, Engleby, Ford, Ferguson,
Flippo. Gambill Garland, Gilmore,
Gold, Gordon, Gooch, Gregory, Gray,
Gum, Hancock. Hanger, Hardaway.
Jones, Kernahan, Kent, Lambert,
Loving, Maupin, j. N, Maupin, w: g,
Moore, Pace Perkins, Potter, Price,
Reade, Simmons, Stone, Starkey, Ter
rell. TAYLOR, Pillman, Trout, Warner,
Whitisell, Wright, Woodson and
Wexford.
A special telegram to the TIMES
from Richmond last night says that
the city is filled to OVERLOOKING with
strangers already. The hotels are all
crowded and the rush is almost un-
precedented. The decorators are
making great progress and the houses
along the route which the procession
is to pass are being made to look gay
with Confederate and United States
flags and handsome bunting. The
advance guard of old veterans con
sisting of delegation from Louisiana
of the Army of Northern Virginia,
has arrived in the city and the mill.
tary is pouring in on every train.
The Washington artillery, OF New
Orleans. passed through here on o
special train at IL o'clock last night en-
route to- Richmond. Capt. Eshlemar
avs in command, and William Miller
owen is First Lieutenant, (as he wa:
twenty-nine years ago. They carried
the Confederate flag of General Beau
regard, one of the original four made
by the Carey's for Johnson, Van
Dorne, Beauregard, &c, and pre-
sented at Centreville in 1861. The
battalion flag of Mexican war fame
inscribed with sixty battles, was also
carried.