Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-14
THE FOURTH VIRGINIA.
Sick Sent Awny-PersOnal Mention
Company Es Pig.

Correspondence Of the Dispatch)
CAMP CUBA LIBRE, October 12.-All
of the convalescent soldiers, 1is In num-
Der. have been moved from the Second
Division Hospital to Fort Thomas. KY,
where the climate IS more salubrious.
and will serve to build up the depleted
strength of the invalids. Those from
Virginia who have been moved are Ben
jamn Brewd. Company "A, Fourth Nlr-
GINA; +. Milburn, Company b, Fourth
Virginia; Charles Baldwin, Company {,
Fourth Virginia: G. Pendleton. Company
C. Fourth Virginia; Dan Wilmer, Com
pany e. Fourth Virginia. Il. A. Moore,
Company r, Fourth Virginia; Aaron
Klein. Company f. Fourth Virginia; III.
Peace, Company +, Fourth Virginia; +.
Rider, Company III. Fourth Virginia; l..
II. Dent, Company II, Fourth virginia;
James Matthews, Company 1, Fourth
Virginia: ]. d. McAleady, Company 1,
Fourth Virginia; A. ID. Rogers, Company
X. Fourth Virginia; j. Pison, Company
y. Second Virginia, and James BARLEY,
Company X, Second Virginia.
Those who are left at the hospital here
will remain where they are until they
become strong enough TO move. More
frame buildings, in addition to those al
ready in use, will be erected. so as to
render the patients perfectly comfort
able during the cool weather.
After this corps is moved, each regi-
ment will be supplied with hospital or
its own. where mild cases OF sickness OF
any kind will be treated and cases In
which there Is doubt as to the nature or
the disease or complaint, may be studied
until the character Of it developes Each
regimental hospital will have four tents,
ten cots. and eight tents for attendants
not including the surgeons. The equip
ments are five medical army chests, mess
chests. hospital furniture. and three am
balances. Besides these regimental hos
pitfalls, there will be two division hospi-
tails. where the most serious cases will
be treated.
A great many Of those who have been
away on furlough and sick leave are
coming back now and reporting for duty,
seemingly very much invigorated. The
ranks at drill are filling up more and
more every day. and we hope to go to
Savannah with n full quota. The small
number fit for duty. In some companies
as low as twenty-six, has made II very
rough on those who are left, in supply
ing the various details The men have
to go on guard duty once every five or
six days, and in some cases once In four
DAYS
Private w. T. Gibboney. Of Company
TT. Fourth Virginia. who has been con-
fined TO his tent with malaria for a week
has recovered his usual vigor. and is
now able to go through the various evo-
buttons Of drill as promptly as the next
man.
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improving rapidly. and expects to leave
for his home. in Richmond, in day or
two.
Corporal Schermerhorn and Private Joe
Kahn from Phoebus. Va. Of Company I.
are stlll very III with typhoid-fever at the
Division Hospital
Private Joseph Hampton. OF Company
r Norfoll). who has been home on a
thirty-day furlough. returned this morn
ing.
Flrst-Sergeant Shelly. Of Company T.
CNorfolk). who has been spending n If
teen-day furlough very enioyably with his
friends at home. returned last night.
Sergeant Cartwright Of Company G. re-
turned last night. after spending a vaca-
ton Of fifteen days in Newport News. Va.
Corporal +. w. Jones. OF Company X.
has been recommended by his captain for
q sergeancy
Corporal Crenshaw. OF Company III, IL
improving. and hopes soon to be able to
take his thirty-day furlough home TO re-
cuperate.
The school for non-commissioned off,
GERS. with Captain Sheen as schoolmas-
ter. has reopened for It's second session. |
and every morning the non-commissioned
officers OF the Fourth Virginia have to |
trot around TO report at 9:45. If they hap |
pen 10 play truant, which good many |
did yesterday, they are punished by being |
denied passes out of camp for twenty |
days.
When We first came down here Com |
pany r (Norfolk), secured by "some hook |
or crook" maybe when the old sow was |
more closely the other members |
of her family, the prettiest little brown |
pig anybody ever saw. and ever since they |
have been keeping the most Jealous and |
care over H. Indeed. the whole |
company have detailed themselves a spe- |
cial guard over II, so that II receives as |
close attention as the regimental camp |
does from It's guards. But as II has been |
fatter and fatter, and sleeker and I
sleeker, the boys Of Companies b and l.
are watching 1t with eyes growing more /
covetous every day. and now, as their |
months are becoming set for roast shoat /
a plan Is brewing for its capture and dis
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