The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-13
WANT TO RETURN HOME
First Regiment Says If It
Can't Go to the Front
Send It to Sea
Girt.

CAMP ALGER, FALLS RIVER, Va,
| Aug. 10, 1S9s.-A new maze of contradictory
reports has set the men and officers Of the
New Jersey regiment at this place guess
ing again. From the headquarters of the
| Second Army Corps comes the statement
| that the Second Division. under General
Davis, now stationed at Thoroughfare
Gap. is to be ordered to proceed at once
to Middletown, Pa, while the regiments
| of the First Division, which include the
| First New Jersey, Third Virginia, Sixty
| fifth New York, First Connecticut. Sew
| enth Ohio. and the Eighth. Twelfth and
Thirteenth Pennsylvania regiments, are to
| go to T~horoughfare Gap and encamp
there. Then, again, there came a state
ment. on seemingly good authority, that
| the Second Division will remain where it
| now is, and that General Buffers com
| mand will proceed to Sea Grit. N. ]. 1t
was stated that Generals Butler and Ora
ham a had along consultation over
this matter, and that the two command
ers were much impressed with the advan-
tages afforded by Sea Girt as a camping
ground. The Jersey soldiers were de-
lighted with the suggestion that they were
10 De SGiIt DdCA " oNd ~
IF they won't send US to Cuba, let
them send us home,'' is the unanimous
sentiment Of the Newark boys. WED be
here in the dirt"
Privates Rossiter n Lockhart, Of Com
pany A, First New Jersey, who have been
at the post hospital suffering from rheu-
matism, have been discharged from the
hospital and have obtained f~urloughs OF
thirty days each, SO that they may go to
their homes in Newark to recuperate. Pri-
vate Reilly, of the same command, who
has been suffering from typhoid fever, is
convalescent and will be discharged from
the hospital in a few days. He. too, viii
have a thirty days furlough.
Major Henry Freeman, commanding the
First Battalion of the Newark regiment,
has been appointed Provost Marshal Of
the First Division, and will enter upon his
| duties in a few days.
Chaplain Hare has arranged for a SER
vice 10 be held on Sunday morning in the
| Newark Camp, in memory of the soldiers
who have died since the regiment has
| been in the field. A feature of the SER
vice will be the reading Of a set OF resolu-
lions adopted by each company concern
| ing the dead soldiers.
Regimental Surgeon Henry Alters yes
terday received a consignment of 300 large
bath sponges, which were purchased by
the physicians wife from funds solicited
by her at her home at Harrison, N. j. The
sponges will be distributed tomorrow by
Chaplain Hare.
The riotous conduct of the Third Vir-
ginia on Tuesday night, when a number
of soldiers from that regiment attempted
to lynch a negro who had worsted one of
their comrades in a fist fight, and when
| order was only restored after the soldiers
were driven into their camp by a detail
| from the Thirteenth Pennsylvania and the
First Connecticut regiments, will be IN
v~estigated today. Major General Butler,
commanding this division, witnessed the
disorder. and the following morning issued
an order taking away the liberties ex-
tended to the soldiers and censuring them
for their conduct. Guards are posted
around the .regimental quarters every
| thirty PAGES and the roll Is called four
| times a day. No one is allowed to go
| outside of the guards unless in the per-
| formance of some military duty. The
Third Virginia men are indignant, and
characterize the Generals action as hasty
and overbearing. Colonel Male, Of the
| Third Virginia. brought the matter to the
| attention of Major General Graham. COM
| manding the corps, who at once issued
an order commanding an investigation.
Captain John Brooks. u. S. A., Quarter
master of the First Division, and Captains
Gilbert, Bronson and Polk, Brigade
| Quartermasters. returned last evening
from T~horoughfare Gap. They started out
| wednesday morning to survey a route to
be followed by the division on its march
to the camp at the Gap. They give any
thing but a glowing description of the
| condition eff the men of the Second Divi-
sion, and express the opinion that the
camp site at Thoroughfare Gap has not
one redeeming feature. The men camping
there are sleeping on the wet ground. The
roads are a foot deep with mire. and the
streams are flooded and in a great NUM-
her of places i~mpassable.