The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-11
CAMP DAN Russell.

Notes and Incidents Picked Up There
Yesterday-An Adjutant Slightly Hurt.
The men at Camp Russell are wanting
nav dav TO come. and that quickly. Some
of them are sadly in need of little
'.pocket change" right at the present
The pay roll arrived from Washington
Yesterday and will be filled out and re-
turned at once.
Some of the officers have not yet been
uniformed. They expect uniforms about
the 10Th of the month";
CAPTAIN Gibson. of Company l.. left
Yesterday afternoon ON Il furlough for
his home at Bryson City to see his
family. He will be back Tuesday.
Yesterday afternoon just as the dress
norade was forming, when the band be
gan to play the horse which Adjutant
s. II. McRae, of the first battalion. was
riding. gave a sudden plunge, throwing
its head backward, striking Mr. McRae
in the mouth, cutting quite cash on his
lower lip The surgeons dressed the
wound. and it is now healing up nicely.
The following officers are detailed for
duty today: Officer Of the Gny, Captain
]. II. Smith; officer of the guard. Lieu
tenant T.. l.. Gilner: junior officer of the
guard. Lieutenant Il. w. Farrior.
i le following officers left yesterday TO
establish headquarters for recruiting the
Second regiment to the maximum
strength required under the second call
for volunteers: First battalion, Lieuten-
ant !. G. Hollingsworth, Fayetteville;
Second battalion. Lieutenant ]. s. Adj
ans. Ashville; Third battalion. Teuten-
ant Frank b. Davis. Morganton. One
non-cOmmiSsioned officer and three pri-
Yates will accompany each recruiting Of
ficer.
The regiment has received orders from
the Department Commander at Atlanta
to drill six hours daily, two hours to be
devoted to marching at the rate of three
miles per hour.
The quartermaster is busy issuing nm
deryests and socks to the men, Shoes for
the regiment are in the warehouse here
ready to he issued today.
Drums and bugles were issued to the
drum corps yesterday.
The boys are anxiously awaiting or
ders to march to the front. The cry is
"On to Cuba"
The guns for the Second regiment were
shipped from Springfield on the 9th and
will surely arrive here by tomorrow.
The band of the Second regiment is
practicing almost constantly. and their
playing has improved greatly. The band
master wants Dixie" but has not been
able to get the music yet. Somebody
ought to send it to him.
The men suffered greatly Yesterday
with the excessive heat Two-thirds of
them are from Western North Carolina
where the mountain breezes always blow
and the hot weather gets the best Of
them.
Captain r. L. Durham has gone to his
home at Gastonia for few DAYS.
Inc city street sprinkler was sent ouf
to camp yesterday and used with good
ERECT, for which the soldiers are thank.
iui. Every street in camp and the drill
ground was thoroughly sprinkled
The Lenoir Topic says that the ladies
OF l.en0lr are getting up Il box TO send
10 the company Of which Mr.. Edmund
Jones j. captain. The boys in the Dan
russell camp in Raleigh will be glad n
get 1t. and will do 1t full Justice.
i want to go to Cuba
mat is what Major Il. +. Dixon. OF
Shelby. said last night when discussino
the fact that $4,000 troops has been sent
70 Cuba. We enlisted in this war ID
hight, and we are ready to go to the
front"
That is the spirit of the whole camr
at Raleigh. They like Raleigh. and say
there is no place (home excepted that
would suit them so well as a camp. but
that they want a hand in this war.