The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-19
THEY REMEMBER
CAMP LEE DAYS.
The Virginia Boys Miss the Visits
of the Girls,
PREPARING FOR SERIOUS WORK.
There Has Been Great improvement
Gnd the Well Dressed, Drilled ana
Disciplined Troops Would Hard
Ebc Recognized at Camp Lee

CAMP ALGER. VA, June Especial
As the days pass by mere aI Imp ~ ~
the bovs of the Third Regiment hnd that
tbo Mace selected by Uncle Sam for d
large army o. his troops TO live is not so
had os was thought from the first I'M
After the gayety and rather easy. lie
M CamD Lee. the boys FOUND IL HaIu
ororgb to do without the girls. whose
,isits 10 our Richmond camping grounds
viii ever De remembered with pleasure
and they al say &c IS stii nara puL lHey
have realized the fact that there Is Sc
rious work before them ana TOT ul''
work. m they want 20 Doe "a creul 10
old virginia, they must prepare ''e'''-
selves -,
with this object in view every man
here from Colonel Male down, has gone
ahead with a viii and the companies OF
the regiment have improved 90 sucn a.
degree that those who saw them daily
M Camp Lee would now hardly recoS-
nize them On the well-dressed. well drill
ed and well trained volunteer coinp3Ilr7
the same ORGANIZATIONS which lett nome
for Richmond little over n month ago
THE UGLY DUCKLlNG.
Under the careful eye OF Captain Miller
the former Fltz Lee Rifles, now COM
panv T.. who were at first the BUTT OF
many Jokes from the three Regiments
have UNDERGONE such a change in every
respoct that none Of the boys can now
afford to crack @ joke nc their expense
and when the boys from Lyncnburg get
guns they promise 20 make the otheta
hustle.
Squad drill IS rarely seen ou the parade
orornds now. though occa s.onally some
officer makes The awkward men OF PAS
company take AN hours sun bath de-
signed 10 make them wake up and when
the weather IS as hot as it has been
here it generally has the desired eff
feet.
REGTNTNTAL PARADE.
Tho military event OF each day nc
Camp Alger and one at which the BOYS
rather ike to be present IS regimental
parade when an of them are required %
put ON their best dixie. with clean guns
hrasses and white gloves.
This parade is held every afternoon at
r o'clock and is the only time nj WAicn
Colonel Male takes charge of the hee.-
meUt
Usually az such parades the companies
OF the regiment form in line but when $50
formed they make long lile' go long
Do fact that the grounds here do NOT ad-
NIT OF such formation and the three niI-
tgIors of Our regiment are formed in
respective battalion. While the enecl
az This is not so snowy as che line torma-
ton the p1r9d. is just as Interesting
ana DIS now gone through without The
least mistake.
Doc contrast with regimcntal parade the
bows least like guard mount or rather
they don't Sd much mind that as t-a
duties which come afterwards when each
man has before him o. long stretch of
guard duty beginning a. . o'clock one
morning and ending az o'clock the next
morning. during which time each man
is ON dutv two hour and of four
SLEEP WITHOUT ROCKING.
When Be- d. time 90 retire for the night
those 0f the boys of duty secure a blank
q roll uD in the same ana the grass
hanks outside the guard tents furnis d
"a resting place until their time come
Co go on guard.
one of the ways the boys have adopted
of amusing themselves during leisure
hours us 10 having comp, Itive dilI.s
amongst themselves with TWO OF tnell
members ass judges.
A SQUAD falls boz and the man that
makes two mistakes is Immediately
thrown out while the onlOokers guy MIN
GOOD humoredly. The successful man j.
Immediately challenged Dy others and
thus the fun continues.
The Ninth Massachusetts, across the
way from us has O crack base-oaA team
and some of the Virginia boys are talking
of organizing team IN their regiment
and challenging their northern comFaoes
Nearly AN OF The companies have some
crack bah players. many OF the men nav
ing played college ball last spring.
SOCIAL VISITS.
one of the pleasures the men nave en-.
i0yed in the last few days Is visiting lA'
camps OIL tie other regiments Ihey af'
not allowed TO go by themselves out tA'
commissioned officers are very oDhglhs
ana they pilot large parties outside th'
lines. Guard mount in the Northern reg,
imeuts is with few exceptions, heIl
much later than ours. theirs not TAXING
place until after II o'clock.
In contrast with our camp the otheT'
are filled with stands at which all man
ner OF things are sold from ginger snaps
TO ice cream. while on all sides swarm
wagons from which are sold pies and
/ milk.
The good people Of Fairfax have taker
advantage Of their opportunities anl
mony q good dollar has possed into the.l
hands In exchange for eataOlss.
The many humorous signs and lnscrlp'
lions which used 10 adorn the tents al
Richmond have nearly all disappeared
from view. though two amusing ones car
still be seen on the tents OF the boys
from Charlottesville. one OF them reads
as follows: Mission Of Bighted Hopes
while the other on one OF the larger
sibley tents. in which twenty men arc
Quartered, is raher sarcastic the In