New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-23
Colgate & Co.'s
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REVOLT AT CAMP BLACK.
RECRUITS OF THE SEVENTY FIRST REGl-
NrNT LEAVE CAMP WITHOUT PASSES.
ONLY EIGHTY OUT OF THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVEN Still. IN TIE TENTs-MANY COM
PLANTS OF BAD TREATMENT
PROVOST GUARDS HUNT
ING FOR MISSING
SOLDIERS.

Thore arc now only eighty men on nara OF 'ie
2o7 men who a few days made up the Tccrui'eo
section Of the list Ncw-York Volunteers ~ '"''i
Black. The rest have eft camp. ir'VoS' s"'''
are searching the nearby villages FOR inc mcI' WIZ
bavc got away and are not succeeding III Hnuns
,bcr, II &c believed most Of them have gone 10
Ne.-York and thrown aside their uniforms. i'eS'
men are disguised with the treatment '"'! "
received and whether they deserved II OF MOI 'os
are not inclined 10 submit any longer ana nave
practically deserted although all can YET save '''
honor by returning and taking punishment as men
absent without leave. , IA hu,,o,
The eighty men who remain are In bad hu'"o'
They are detained within their own camp anu "io
guarded by details from the three recruit reHne'''
now In camp. This guard consists OF lVo "'e"
or two for each Of the lists men, There VIII oe ITO
more escapes.
II VA. said in camp Yesterday that part OF the
obsen; men had obtained enough money 10 CON
vey them TO Montauk. and that they wouid r'Po''
there for assignment TO companies In Tie regimen
There is some doubt about this. however as o''-
mel Dowuos would have 20 return the men 70
Camp Black but there is possibility that the men
have no; thought of this. and that they nave soh'
10 the regimen, in hope that they may be sent 10
duty with their comrades.
The men Of the fist remaining in camp are In
bad humor because they are practcaIlN prisoners
and in disgrace. Their rifles having been taken
from them: they no longer have the satisfaction
OF being soldiers for they have not the solder :
weapon. They complain that they have been dis
eliminated against have been made the servants
OF the camp. made TO do all the rough dutT that
the other commands should have dore Tor them
selves and that they have bcen made 10 bear the
blame for everything that went wrong in the camp.
They allege that since Lieutenant WeiEol left the
camp. two weeks ago. their 10, has been worse
than before. because he kept an eye on them. ana
they e>press a wish thai the lieutenant was back
in command OF the camp.
They assert that while the other commands were
drilling AMI being schoolod soldiers they were
either out on guard duty ior the entire camp. or. u
off guard duty. Hcre set II Digging diichcs Win
the prisoners and doing all sorts OF mental tasks
They say they have been cured NJ and deridcd nS
the officers OF the other regiments. set over them
as handing officers. ana thnt only their I'M
cOnpany had any decent treatment. ana fhat ne
cause CAPTAIN SiodGard WAS in command of u.
They further that. Instead or having liberty IKE
The other soldiers IL was refused. and some ., INC
mon they have not been out o. The camp except
on provost duty In six weeks and That II was ms
refusal of passes that Jed the men 20 leave ne
camp without them ana that Drought ABOUT N"'
oricers who saw this detachment when II first
came to camp agreed that tho nj contain" ]
a 6ne To-, OF Young mon. and good results were eN-
pected The men say that they Wonla n.v" pee,
treated but the officers placed over them htd nom
ing in common with them. and IN some instance :
openly derdcd tho list. md when iher' were $40
rios aoat that the list had farred before SanN-
there were ID pains i"h'H 10 Sl"P '''' |''''9
Colonel Schuyler who is in command OF the
camp and who dir rcted the disarmng OF me inen
refuses 10 discuss the matter beyond saving ma,
II was only a coincidence that the di-Hrmiug ol
the men and the change In the command OF 'he
guard fell the -amc day.