The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-11-30
CAMP WEIHERILL
q REENvILLR. S. o.
November %. 1855.

Ola RSSA olAANo = ~ y " y. q ertt--
for your valuable paper. and as we
have good many boys from your
growing city and the grand old
county of Mason, who belong to
Go. B, L thought I would again
write youia short letter. thinking
some of your realtors would like to-
hear about our company and regi
ment.
We broke camp on Sunday
morning. Nov 18th. at Camp
Meade. and left over the Northern
Pennsylvania Railroad for this
place. and arrived here Tuesday
morning about / a. m.. but remain
ed on the cars until 7:3oa. in.wlien
we formed line and marched
through ihe.city Of GreenyiIIe TO
our camp Just on tho outskirts of
the city. the band playing pixie;
which not only enthused he boys
in blue, but the citizens gave as a
grand reception and ckAered us.all
along the line of march.
Our trip was quite a long one
but one of enjoyment. and all the
boys seemed happy We came
over part of the same route we took
when we went TO Camp Meade.
We came through Baltimore. ar
irving there about 4:30 p M, and
from there TO Washington, where
we got coffee aud supper, and then
over the Southern railroad to this
place. We passed almost entirely
through Virginia during the night,
crossing the river Dan the next
morning and taking breakfast at
DanvilIe, Va, passing on through
Reedsville, Greensboro, Thomas
vile, Lexington, Spencer, Sails
bury and Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, at the last named place we eat
dinner, and those who were fortu-
nate to have few dimes eat most
heartily, for there is fine eating
house at this point, and most of
the boys had money, as we were
paid the Friday before we left
Camp Meade. Our meal cost Us
rs cents, but have no cause to com
plain, for we had quail, squirrel,
rabbit, chicken, beef, ham and eggs
and the finest coffee 1 ever drank
with many other things too numer-
GUS to mention, especially at this
time, for it makes my mouth
water" to think of them and we
cannot get them here.
The scenery along the route was
grand, and the growing cotton
fields and the large cotton mills
was beautiful sight to most of us,
as we had never seen the like be-
fore.
Our camp is pleasant one and
beautifully located, and every thing
will soon be in good shape. Our
tents consist of three tents placed
together with nice floor in them,
and nine persons sleep in these
apartments. The following com
pose those in the tent with your
humble writer: Worthy Brown, 81.
L. Whaley, j. w. MulIin, Alya
Roach, Jack Ritchey, Lawrence
Cox, Mack Martin and Granville
Rayburn, and as we gather around
our oil stoves every evening in our
tent, many are the yarns we tell,
and we are having good time.
The government has built nice
cook houses for us and are putting
mp nice frame buildings for each
company, "a by 40 feet for dining
purposes, so we will not be exposed
to the weather when we eat our
army rations.
The climate here is much warm
er than at Camp Meade, but last
night it was quite cool, and some
of the boys had filed their pans
with water to wash with this morn
ing, and were surprised when they
got up to find them frozen solid, SO
you see we are not in the sunny
by '.jug full:
This is quite a nice city and the
people are very sociable and hospi-
table, and visit. our camp daily, but
with all their sociability and kind
ness they are far behind those of
and more especially
than in the Cumberland Valley
along our march to Gettysburg,
whose memory shall never be for
gotten, and many are the express
ions to return and see those friends
and acquaintance.
We attended Thanksgiving ser.
vice at the Episcopal church yes