Evening star., 1898-08-30
Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment Or
dered to Camp Meade.
ORDERS F0QrHER COMMANDS ATALGER
Private Gay Dismissed and SEN
fenced to Hard Labor.
DEATHS AT FORT MYER
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
DUNN LORING, Va, August 80, 1898.
The sth Pennsylvania. Col. Hoffman,
commanding. received Instructions from di-
vision headquarters to be prepared to move
at noon today to Camp Meade. Pennsylva-
mia. The movement of the troop from this
comp steadily continues. The 18th Pennsyl-
vania left yesterday for Middletown, the
Sth Pennsylvania goes today, and the 65th
New York is scheduled to leave for Buff
falo tomorrow, where the men will be
granted furloughs for thirty days each, and
at the expiration of that time will be mus
tered out of the service.
The 18th Pennsylvania will tomorrow
leave for Camp Meade, at Middletown, and
the remaining regiments will leave in the
following order: 1st New Jersey, 1th Ohio
and 1st Connecticut. The Sd Virginia will
not be ordered to the Pennsylvania camp,
but to Richmond, where they will probably
be mustered out. Strong pressure is being
brought to bear on the War Department to
have this regiment mustered out, and as
the prospects for having it diSbanded are
very bright it would be the height of folly.
it is declared to order the regiment from
camp In it's own state to one in Pennsyl-
vania and then bring it back to be dis
charged from service.
Whether or not the Tth Ohio will go to
Camp Meade Is a question upon which no
light can be shed. The regiment is to be
mustered out, but how soon no one Is able
to say. The 1st Connecticut will be on the
next list of troops to leave the service, but
it will be at least three weeks before any
steps toward disbanding it are taken.
The division officers are still without spe-
cfic instructions relative to mastering out
of the troops with the exception of the
65th New York. and in that case they were
only ordered to send the regiment to Buffa-
10, n. Y.
Transporting the Sick.
The government hospital train secured for
the convenience of one hundred and eight
sick soldiers of the Goth New York, which
was scheduled to leave camp at 4 o'clock
for Buffalo, did not succeed in getting away
until 6:30. Major Cook, the chief surgeon
of the division, and Major Parke, the sur
geon in charge of the 1st Division hospital,
personally superintended the removal of the
sick soldier lads from the hospital to the
train.
The train consisted of six Pullman
coaches, one baggage car and one COM
bination car. The care of the patients on
the train was entrusted to DR.. Herman
Mynter of Buffalo, assisted by Drs. Wilson,
Menteline, Frank and Hintzel together
with Misses Smith, Hunt, Swang. McPer-
son and Kennedy as trained nurses.
Two more soldiers. patients in the post
hospital at Fort Myer, have succumbed to
typhoid fever. They are Privates John A
Boyd. Company E, 9th Massachusetts, and
George Neil. Company A. 9th Pennsylvania
Private Gays Sentence.
The findings of the general court-martial
in the case of Floyd w. Gay, Company +.
Goth New York Regiment, charged with
robbng the mails at Camp AIger were pub
iished this morning. He has been dishon-
orabiy discharged the service of the United
States forfeiting all pay and allowances
ana sentenced to serve three years at hars
labor in the military prison at Fort Leayen-
worth, Kansas.