Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-07
A SOLDIERS CRIME.
ASSAULT UPON CORPORAL TRIcr
OF SECOND VIRGIN,
BY PRIVATE LESLIE PAGE
Struck from Behind with m Climb
The Blow May Prove Fatal-nItt..
Feeling Among the Men-Otber
Mention.

| JAChSONNlLLE, FLA, August &
| (Special.)-Quite a serious affair occurred
yesterday in Company l, Second Virei,,,
Regiment. Lieutenant Hartman ordered
In arrest Private Leslie A. Page for rs.
fusal to obey orders. Private Page was
reported by Corporal w G.. Trice. Of tina.
company Later in the day. while Cor.
| poral Trice had his back turned P,g,
escaped from the guard, ran behind m,
Corporal. and struck him with a l,rv.
club, inficting a wound which may provo
fatal.
The members OF Company I are quit,
indignant with Page, and their svnp,.
thies go out to Corporal Trice, who Is
much beloved
Trice is slightly improved TO-DAY 81.
is In semi-conscious condition but the
surgeon thinks he will recover. Page
claims that he was temporarily insane
when the deed was committed. Feeling
against Page IS bitter among the men of
the company. Colonel Baker has mott.
neo the Acknowledgement that he has
Page confined in irons.
WILL NOT BE MOVED.
The Third Brigade, consisting Of the
Second and Fourth Virginia and The
Forty-ninth Iowa regiments. will not b.
moved for some time at least The piece
or ground formally decided upon IL nm.
available. The grounds OF the Second
virginia Regiment are being rigidly no.
need with very encouraging success. This
work Is now in charge Of Lieutenant
cochran. OF Company a, Woodstock.
me military concerts given each eve
n Ina NJ fta
n great treat for tho people OF jackson.
vile. ON last evening the band Of the
First Nebraska Colonel w. j. Brvan's
regimenD played sweetly from 8 10 10 r.
NJ. our bands being now complete and
diligent In practice. IL IS thought that tho
virginia bands viii soon be called up0n
for this duty also.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department for Assstant-Surgeons slas
u. Post and Benjamin Munday. both
United States army, 20 report 10 General
Lee for assignment and duty.
captain Ebon Il. Fenton, commissary Of
subsistence, United States Volunteers. as
soon as released from quarantine az
Mullets Key, Port lamps, will report
TO General Lee for assignment 10 duty
in one OF the brigades OF the Seventh
Army Corps
Captain Higgins and Major Blew. Of the
Fourth Virginia Regiment. called few
evenings ago upon General Lee and re-
quested him 70 send their regiment %
Porto Rico In the representative corps %
be selected from the troops OF States
not already represented IN the front Tho
officers. II is reported. were assured thar
the Fourth would be recommended f0r
this mission. IL was learned this morning
that the above request had been with
drawn, as the men desired 20 stay IN the
Seventh Army Corps.
PERSONAL.
Lieutenant Hinde. OF the Second Yir-
sinla Roanoke), has been detailed as
liiicer Of the guard for the pas master
)flce, and is assisted by four c0rp0ra's
and six privates from the same regiment
The Second Virginia Regiment IS drilling
by battalion I'm extended order The Sec
md Battalion OF this regiment Is COM
posed OF the three Richmond companies
b. !, and Nd. formerly companies A. 70.
md c, Of the old First Regiment. and
Company III. OF Salem. Va. The battalion
$ commanded by Major J. c. Watson. Of
Abingdon. Va, who was formerly OF
Richmond.
Yesterday Brigadier-General Hasbrook
eviewed the drill OF this battalion. ana
vas very complimentary I'm his criticism
# the effort lie also spoke last night
Il the Windsor about the efficiency o.
his battalion.
Lieutenant Frank ". Woon. OF Company
II, Second Virginia (Richmond Graysl, ls
much improved.
First-Sergeant p. y. Overton. Company
Second Virginia, who has been 90 Ric1-
nond on a thirty-days' sick leave. return
d 10 camp to-day.
Mr. George +. Tibbitts, formerly the
popular general secretary OF tho Young
lens Christian Association OF Richmond.
) on a visit 10 our camp. He bias been
pending his vacation visiting the various
amps, and comes 20 US from Chicka-
1auga. He thinks our camp the cieaneit
nd best he has yet visited. lie VII
ddress the members OF our two re5l-
lents tonight.
The boys OF the Fourth Virginia are
cling paid OF. and are receiving baeh
ay from April 10Th.
The Fourth Virginia is drilling as reg
lent I'm close order for the first TINS
nee their arrival at camp.