The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-22
TAR HEEL TROOPS
OFF FOR TAMPA
They Go This Morning Over
the Southern.
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WILL ARRIVE IN TAMPA MON
DAY EVENING.
WILL Be BRlGADEO WITH REGULARS
The First North Carolina Regiment and the
Seyenth-First New York Are the Only
State Troops Yet Ordered
10 Iampa.

Phe First regiment of North Carolin'
volunteers has been ordered immediatel.
to Tampa. This regiment and the Sc.
enty-frst New York are the only volur
teers that have as yet been ordered t
Join the regulars in Tampa.
The following order was issued lat
Yesterday afternoon 10y Col. Armfelt
the First regiment Mort
Carolina volunteers:
Headquarters LIST Reg. n. c. V. Z.
S. A.
Camp Bryan Grimes,
Raleigh, n. c., May 81, 1893.
Special Order, No II.
In compliance with Geographic in
structions from the War Depart
ment. dated May 49, 1898, this regi-
ment will proceed tomorrow, via the
Southern Railway to Tampa, Fla.
First call for reveille win be sound
ed at 3:45 a. m.
Reveille at $40.
Assembly 400.
Breakfast 4:10.
Attention 4:30.
General 4:30.
Immediately preceding the general
attention will be sounded, when all
the tents will be properly manned
so that when the last note of general
sounds, every tent will fall to The
right
All tents will DO brushed and neat
~ and compactly folded, pins put in
sacks or boxes. poles collected and
all loaded on wagon together with
other company baggage.
The quartermaster sergeant, to-
gether with a detail of eight men
from each company, will look after
and be responsible for company bag
agge, and see it properly loaded in
baggage cars from cotton platform
ut Southern Railway freight depot,
each in his half car provided and let
tered with company letter.
The camp will be thoroughly POI
Heed after the first load of baggage
shall have left cainp1s all sinks filed
straw and other rubbish burned.
Captains of companies will see that
the army regulations in regard to
transporting troops will be strictly
observed: keep sentinels posted in
side each car door, allow no one to
ride on the platform, and allow no
one to leave the car for any purpose
without special permission.
The travel ratiOns will be served i'm
the coaches with the troops, and each
company will be provided with camD
I.1l nfl
sufficient to contain II gallons of Ii
auid coffee which will be furnished
three times daily ut the rate of three
pints per day per man.
The troops win be equipped with
field uniforms, but the knapsacks
win be hauled on the wagons to
the deDot and taken into coaches
with the men.
A physician and hospital steward
win be on each train.
BY order of
col. T. n. ARMFIELD.
T. r. ALEXANDER.
LIST Lieut.. and Adgj't.
The North Carolina troops will leav
here this morning at 6 o'clock, over tn
Southern Railway. The train will I'll
in three sections. The baggage car
will be loaded at the Southern Rallwa
freight depot and then the entire trai
will be backed into the Union depot
take aboard the men.
Il. e first section will leave at o'ci0cl
the second at 7:20. and the third at Z ~
the train will consist of 3
cars. The first two sections will +
made up Of - cars-one Pullman for til
officers. 8 coaches for the men, car
for the baggage, the last section wi
have baggage cars. Attached to the las
section also will be a stock car with IL
fifteen horses belonging TO the office
of the regiment.
The work of loading the cars wit
baggage and camp equipment will beg
ut o'clock and consume two hour
The men will then be immediate
marched through the city to the UniC
depot and the first section viii start
z O'Clock. The second section pulls OF
twenty minutes later and the third go
away at TAO O'Clock.
On the first section will be the rec
mental officers and musicians, and Il
Charlotte tI1ornet's Nest Rifles, Gold
boro, Winston and ReidsviIle. On II
second section will be StatesvilIe, Ash
vile, Shelby and Waynesville. II
third section will carry the Durham. RI
eigh. Concord and Charlotte (Oue,
City companies.
With the first section Of the Nor
Carolina troops along with the field of
GERS Of the First regiment will go N
Fred. L. Merritt, Of the News and n
server staff, who has been granted
passport by the War Department r. .
company the North Carolina froons
Tampa and to Cuba as the staff GORE
pendent of this paper. Mr.. Merritt "
use the wires and the mails. particular
the former to give in detail the dom
of our Tar Heel boys and the hapne
ings in and about the seat of war.
The train is to stop at such places
Col. Armfield may designate. He wi
il is understood. have it stopped
Durham. Greensboro. Concord. Oh.
lotte and Atlanta. The train will arr
at Tampa Monday afternoon.
Col. Armfeld will Of course be in col
mand and therefore the car for him nj
other regimental officers will be