Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-13
MAY NOT MUSTER OUT
TUOUCUT LIKELY SECOND WILL
GET THE MEN NEEDED.
The THIRD HERE A MONTH LONGER.
Said That IT VIII Require This Time
to Complete the Physical Examina-
tiOn-The Men Are Anxious 10 DC
Sent Home.

The officers Of the Second Virginia now
I'm Richmond are quite confident OF theh
being retained in the service, as they
think there is little doubt that the average
of sixty men I'm every company, the num-
her required by the War Department, can
be obtained.
Colonel Baker issued an order to his
company commanders from WOODSTOCK
Yesterday. directing them to poll ther
commands at once for the purpose Oh
learning the number of men who desire
70 be retained in the service, and officially
informing them that the Secretary OF
War at a personal conference. mad as
sured him that IL as many as 90 per cent
Of the men in the regiment wished TO re-
main in the service, the order to muster
ont would be countermanded
The companies will be polled in day
or two. There is strong ground Tor De-
ueying that the number required to re-
tain the regiment in service can De oD-
tanned. An officer said yesterday that
he did not believe there would be any
difficulty whatever in securing the 400
men necessary.
WANTS 1T POLLED.
Governor Tyler yesterday received the
following telegram from AdJutant-Gehe-
raj Corbin: VT
Hon. j. Hoge Tyler, Governor OF VIZ
gina, Richmond, Va:
"Before acting on your Geographic re-
o,.st of the Sth. would like information
Of the number of enlisted men in the
Third Virginia who want to remain In
service Several experiments OF this
Kind have been made, and Ii has UNIFORM
lv turned out that very few men want
~ III. C. CORBIN,
"Adiutant- General"
Tho telegram from the Governor TO
which the above was a reply asked that
discharges be granted very freely In the
Fourth Regiment, and that vacancies
thus created be filed by enlistinS men
from the Third who desired TO remain IN
service.
MAY BE HERE A MONTH.
II seems likely that the work of mus
tering out the Third Regiment VIII con-
sumo much more time than expected
Surgeon Chamberlain, or the regular
army. VINO has been detailed TO cohuuct
the physical examination or the men, says
he thinks the work will require at least
one month, possibly two. Inc men are
very anxious to be sent home.
In addition TO the regular guard or
seventeen men at the Exchange Hotel
Yesterday. a provost guard, numbering
twenty-four men, was also on duty on
BROAD street TO look after those or their
comrades who looked too long on the
vina when il was whiskey, and TO run
In men out after o'clock last night with
out passes They reaped bounti1ul mar
vest last night The entire guard was
under Captain Hutchins, officer OF the
day.
DEATH OF A SOLDIER.
private James f. Clarke, of Company
Third Regiment died at his home,
Sunnyside. Cumberland county. Tuesday.
4 detail from Company c, consisting OF
-orporals Shepperson and Powers ana
Privates Brown. watkins, Smith, Bar
hour and Hardy. were sent yesterday to
attend the funeral to-day.
Private Clarke was taken III with ty-
phoid-fever shortly after his return from
Camp Alger He was fine soldier
PERSONAL NOTES.
Second Lieutenant T. ID. Fairlamb, OF
Company NJ, Second Regiment, who was
IN in the hospital at Pablo Beach when
the regiment returned to Richmond, has
about recovered. and is now back home.
He was heartily greeted by his comrades,
who feared his return trip would be
made in quite a different manner.
Ouartermaster Calpee, OF the Second
Regiment. who has been i'll at the Old
Dominion Hospital since the regiments
return here, is convalescing.
Priyates Bowles and Faulkner, OF
Company /. Second Regiment. are at the
Old Dominion, and are also about re-
covered. The former will be discharged
to-day.
Expressions OF regret at the death OF
private Albert Rouse. of Company l,
second Regiment, are still heard. One or
the officers OF the company said yester-
day he was probably the best man he
oyer saw i'm the service.
Private George w. Higgins, Company
q Fourth Regiment, is just home from
jacksonville. or a thirty-day furlough.
He Is recovering from an attack or ty-
phoid-fever.
Captain Furguson, chaplain OF the
Third Regiment, lectured 10 young men
al calvary Baptist church last night.