Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-08
YIRGINIANS IN CAMP.
Description of Soldier Life I'm Lees
Army Corps, at Savannah.

Army
Correspondence of the Dispa tch)
SAVANNAH. GA. November 6.--By
dint Of a good deal of hard labor and
painstakng the Fourth Virginia camp has
been laid off in as fine order as a city
park The streets have been nicely
graded. with cutters and wood CURLING
The parade-gTounds have been nicely
cleared and levelled, the grass cut and
well rolled. while the company kitchens
and other houses which have just been
built and the tents have all been ar
ranged in lines and rows with mathe-
matical precision All that is necessary
now is TO set out the trees, plant beds OF
flowers, and SOW better grass. and we
should have as pretty park as could be
found in the city of New York.
FADS OF THE COMPANIES.
One of the interesting phases of volun-
teer army life is the difference in the
forms of amusement INDUCED in by the
various companies. OF course there are
many things which they do IN common
and some boys can be found In each
company to do anything but what is the
fashion in one company is not necessa-
rily the fashion in the other.
In the Fourth Virginia, Companies "A
and b. both from Norfolk are noted for
their song-and-dance artists. At night, the
days work over supper eaten, and every
body still alive, the boys are naturally
in good spirits Several begin to clap and
Immediately the floor begins 10 shake
with q regular knock-dOwn in "Old Vir-
ginny" corn-shucking style. followed by
songs, both comic and sentimental.
Company d, from Hampton, is ac-
knowledged by all to be the leaders in
athletic sports. 1t is very rare that any
one passing their company street be-
tween drills doesn't find them at foot
! ball or baseball. or engaged in glove
contest in regular prize-ring order. Com
| pany y has q number Of football and
! baseball players who have figured promi-
nently on college and association club.
PLAYING CIRCUS.
ANY man getting up force for circus
would do well to enlist Company l., Of
Portsmouth, for they are great 1T imper-
sonating circus. sideshow- and patent
medicine-men. To be in their vicinity
| blind-foded you would imagine yourself
on the Midway Plaisance. with the big
gest show on earth performance just
about TO commence" being shouted on
one side while on the other side is being
sold Cuticura Corn Salve to cure all Ills
! from an ingrowing toe-nal to total raid
| ness.
The forte OF Company F is wrestling.
! for II has a number OF fine roughabouts
| In this line. 1t will be blue day for
/ this Suffolk company when one of their
men has his back put to the ground by
| a stranger.
THE BLUES
The idle time OF the boys OF Company
! II CBlues) is spent mostly in testing and
| teasing each other. If fellow once al
lows a joke to get out on himself he Will
never hear the end of 1t, while these
Jokes often end in nlcknames, many of
which are more familiar than the proper
| names they dlsplace. To mention some
! Furlough John. Crazy Bill, Turtle, Pessi-
mist Rust. etc.
Company NJ (Blues) takes the lead In
the ladies' hearts. although Company II
| has some formidable 'mashers,' and
many dances have been gotten up be-
tween the two companies 10 entertain
their conquests among the fair sex
MORE TROOPS FOR THE SEVENTH
ARMY CORPS.
THE transport Michigan arrived here to-
| day with a battalion of each the Maine
Volunteer Artillery and the Second Vol
unteer Regiment of Engineers on board
| They have been attached to the Second
| Division of the Seventh Army Corps
and have raised their tents little east
of the Fourth Virginia camp.
| The men seem TO be very well pleased
| with their camp, the country about. and
| especially the climate. as the weather
| they left behind them was cold.
An order was received from the War
Department to-day directing that every
man who is granted a discharge must be
examined for physical disability
PROMOTIONS.
The following promotions have been
| int
Corporal Il. NJ. 'rurdts to be sergeant
and Lance Corporal T. S. Nunnally and
| Private A. o. White to be corporals In
Company A (NorfolD.
Privates c. H. Dodson and w II. Nc
| Clennan to be corporals in Company r
! CNorfolD.
PERSONAL.
Second-Lieutenant W. u. Church, of
| company y. has been assigned TO duty
as acting quartermaster OF the Fourth
Virginia. vice Captain Higgins. who is
acting-ass istant-quartermaster of the
| brigade.
Private /. F. Wilkinson has returned to
| Company B from the hospital at Fort
/ Myer. Va.
Sergeant Harry Macon. of Company f.
received his discharge yesterday and left
! for his home, in Norfolk last night.
KILLED BY CARELESSNEsS.
Private Sherman Cunningham, of Com
pany NJ, Ninth Illinois Regiment, was
| killed at about II 80 this morning by the
careless handling of a rifle i'm the hands
| Of Private Reuben NJ. Benham. Company
L. of the same regiment. They were in
a tent with several others and no one
Stoned TO have any idea that the rifle was
| loaded. Another man was slightly wound
/ ed in The arm by the same discharge. Pri-
vate Benham was Immediately put under
arrest. Private Cunningham's remains
will be shipped to his home. In Illinois
| tonight
Cavalry for Puerto Principe.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., November T.
The War Department has decided to send