Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-06
WON'T GO INTO CAMP.
THE THIRD REGIMENT WILL srAf
IN THE EXCHANGE HOTEL. s.
THE MEN ARE RETURNING RAPIDLY!
They Are Not Waiting for the Ex-
pirati0n of Their FurIoughs-They
VIII Get an Extra Months Pay
Commissions Issued.

and men. will all be IN the city by Eat
urday night. at which time their thirty
Ilday furloughs expire.
The men will be quartered in the old
Exchange Hotel. This has been definitely
| decided. Colonel Nalie has frequently
| oppressed desire to have the regiment
go into camp. but the department has
decided against him. In opposition to
Colonel Male it was urged that the men
| would have been sleeping under roof fof
thirty days; that many of them have no
oyercoats. and that as result they
would greatly suffer II weather were as
cool as usual in the second week in Oc-
tober.
h Colonel Male was chiefly DESTROYS or
having the men go into camp for the
i reason that they could be better supplied
with wood and water than If quartered
in the old hotel or in the armories. =
WILL BE WELL CHARTERED.
/ Major Shanks. however, is arranging
10 take good care OF the men. He will
have them fed at the restaurants, and
with their blankets and plenty OF straw
they will have comfortable sleeping quar-
tiers. Ii is probable that there will be
something OF a shortage of blankets.
These are the property OF the men. Some
| of them were very hard up when fur
Laughed here on the Sth of September.
They realized that blankets would be
much needed when they came back TO be
mustered out. But that time was a
month off. Money was needed then. One
way to get 1t, and about the only way the
boys knew, was to pledge or sell their
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started home with little money in their
pockets. but no blankets on their backs.
These will spend the nights next week
seeking soft spots on the floors at the
Exchange, upon which to stretch them
selves for slumber. - ~
I-----WoRK OF MASTERING OUT.
The work of mastering out the regiment
will be very tedious. Major David D..
Price. the muster-out officer, thinks it
will occupy probably week. Every
officer. and man must be examined physi-
cally. so that IL can be learned, by COM
paring the result of this examination with
that made at enlistment, whether any
injuries now existing were received In
the service in the discharge of duty, or
whether permanent results or sickness
were developed after enlistment This
last examination will be the one to show
whether the soldier Is entitled to
pension -,,s-,x-
Many of the soldiers are already IN the
CITY II is expected that many will not
come back. Some live at a great DIS
lance from Richmond, even In other
States. and though they will receive up
wards of $50 when paid off, the amount
will not be sufficiently large to compen-
safe them for the outlay in transporta-
ton.
MUST RECEIPT FOR PROPERTY.
In addition to the tedious work Of re-
examining the men. great deal OF iaoor
is involved in making an inventory OF all
the property of the regiment, which must
be turned over TO the government ana
receipted for by Major Shanks, the quar-
terrnaster This must be done WIFE eX-
IRENE care, as the officer giving the re-
ceipt is personally responsible Tor all clS-
hcrepancies.
The men in the Third will certainly re-
ceive something over so each in pay and
communication, and IL is also probable that
they will get pay for the month inter-
vening between the time they volunteer
ed at their home stations and the time
they were mustered into the service or
the United States The Second ma
Fourth Virginia were paid for this ume'
out the tnlTu was nv
Acting Adjutant- General Stern and Ma
for Price have agreed that the payroll
10 be forwarded 10 Washington shall in
clude the extra month, so that II Is prac-
ticallv certain the men will receive the
extra pay.
COMMISSIONS ISSUED.
The following commissions were issued
bv the Acting-Adjutant-G vest a.
dav i'm addition to those recently Issued,
and published: Arthur II. Gary. second
lieutenant, Company NJ, Second Virginia
Regiment. Volunteer Infantry; Leonard
w. Williams. second-lieutenant, Com
pany G.. Fourth Virginia Regiment, Vol
unteer Infantry; Stephen r. Donohoe,
first-ieutenant, Company /, Third Nir-
ginia Regiment. Volunteer Infantry;
Richard c. l.. Moncure, second-lieuten-
ant Company /, Third Virginia Rest-,
ment Volunteer Infantry. Retired COM
mission to Captain L. A. Morrison, Com
pany III Fourth Virginia Regiment, Vol
unteer Infantry.
Captain Kent, Company ID, Second Vir-
ginia REGIMENT. returned to the city from
his home. in Wytheville. yesterday. He
expects TO be engaged until the I'D in
slant. at which time the regiment re-
turns here to be mustered out. in COM
pleting the rolls of his company. This
work will require much time, and 1t is
nrobable that many company officers viii
be back soon to engage in work similar
10 that which caused Captain Kent 10