Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-20
lTMAY MARCH TO-DAY
The Second Regiment Will Be Mustered
in by Noon.
PROMPT ORDERS TO HOYE EXPECTED.
The Fourth Viii Probably Moi Be
Long Behind.
THE THIRD NOT so NEARLY READ,
Col. Gaines Expected i'm Camp Soon
Lieut.-CoI. BurrOws's IiI-HeaIth Ex-
Parade Saturday Afternoon.

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start to Tampa to-day.
The last Company-Company C-Cap
tain Shackelford, will be mustered in By
noon, and Immediately thereafter Colone
Baker and Chaplain Patton will be sworr
into the service of the United States.
Lieutenant Shanks, the muster-in Off
Ger. will at once telegraph the War De-
partment that one regiment of Virginia
troops is ready for service. Orders vii
then be expected any hour for the regi'
ment to march to Tampa, preparatory to
being attached to the army Of invasion
to be sent to Cuba.
All members of Colonel Bakers staff
are now i'm camp, and each is completing
arrangements for marching. Many OF
the officers have telegraphed to have
their horses shipped to Richmond from
their homes, so that they will reach here
to-day. Colonel Baker expects to pur-
| chase his horse i'm Tampa.
| a telegram to the Dispatch from
| Blacksburg last night stated that the
! Blacksburg Band would leave to-day for
| Richmond to join the Second Regiment.
! The band consists Of twenty pieces. with
| Mr.. j. T.. Harvey an accomplished mu-
| sician, as director. He has been for four
years director of the Virginia Polytech-
mic Institute Band. which he has brought
| TO state Of remarkable proficiency. All
| the members are known personally TO
| Major Shanks. This is not at all the
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute Band,
| though among them are several former
and present students of the institute.
THE LAST COMING TO-DAY.
The last of the Fourth Regiment com
panies will be in camp when Company
ID, Hampton, reaches here at IL 10 to-day.
All the companies in the regiment are
not up to their full strength. but it is
thought no more recruits will be needed
after tomorrow or Sunday. as patches
of men are coming i'm oil the time from
various points i'm the State. 1t seems
probable, therefore, that the Fourth will
be ready TO march early in the week.
and will follow close after the Second.
Colonel Hodges. of the Fourth. is expect
ed i'm the city Monday. Nearly all MEM
bers of his staff are here. and several
have been mustered in.
LIEUT.. COL. BURROWSS HEALTH.
Colonel Gaines, Of the Third. will come
to Richmond probably in a day or two.
Several of his staff have reported at
Camp Lee. Lieutenant-C Bur
rows will probably report first, as he
can be mustered in as soon as six com
panies of his regiment have entered the
service The bad health Of Colonel Bur-
rows seems to have been much exagge-
rated as evidenced by the following eX-
tract from letter to the Dispatch:
I'm your issue of the 18th instant the
Third Regiment is reported as having no
lieutenant-coonel My commission as
such bears date the same as the other
field officers of the Third Regiment In
the Dispatch of yesterday | am said TO
be i'm extremely delicate health" 1t is
true that | am no athlete. nor not so
strong and vigorous as l could wish TO
be- and am not free from bodily intrmi-
ties, but TO say that am in extremely
delicate health" is but TO make me APP
pear very ridiculous in the eyes of those |
who know me. When l volunteered /
did so in good faith, leaving the ques- |
tion of my physical condition 10 be pass
ed upon by the properly constituted au- |
thorities."
The Day In Camp.
The men at Camp Lee, especially those |
of the Second and Fourth regiments, !
were worked yesterday as they have not |
been worked since they donned the uni
form of Uncle Sam.
Company X, of the Second, put in five
hours drilling, and other companies /
worked nearly as hard. The rawness
is being rapidly taken out of the men.
and every company shows marked i'm.
prOvement in drilling If they We're only
all uniformed and armed, Virginia would
send a splendid-loOking body of men 10
The front. AS it is, the men are all right,
but they sadly lack accoutrements to
make them Incorporating soldiers.
There was another Second Regiment
mustered in yesterday-Com-
1any l.. of Portsmouth, Captain owens |
Though seven of his men backed down |
when i'm line to be mustered in Wednes-
law he had three too many when ne |
ame to muster them in yesterday after
loon, and ii was only with difficulty that |
his number could be induced to fall out
If line.
TO COMPLETE THE REGIMENT.
Company c, Captain Shackelford, will
,e mustered in this morning, Company |
Il Captain BoisseauX, having been mus |
cred i'm last night. This will complete |
he Second Regiment. Colonel Baker
nd officers will be mustered in imme
lately afterwards, and the regiment will
hen be ready TO march.
Iieutenant- Colonel q. Il. Roller, of the |
econd who was mustered in several
avs ago, and who has been post com
landant ever since Will turn over the ,
ommand to Colonel Baker as soon as
ne latter has been mustered in. Colo
81 Roller has demonstrated his many |
ne qualities as an officer since assuming /
,mmand OF the post. From the first
q has enforced strict discipline, but has ! [
one so i'm such a uniformly courteous |
nd consideTate way that there has been |
tile or no friction, and he has already
ecome exceedingly popular with all OH q
.rs and men in camp. irrespective OF | t
neither they belong TO his regiment or il
)t. II
CHANGE OF OFFICERS.
Company f., Suffolk, Captain Causey
ourth Regiment, will probably be mus =
red In to-day. AT a company meeting :,
II night, c. Il. Harmon, who Is a ).
.nbew of Mr.. A. w. Harmon, State
-easurer. was elected second lieutenant
succeed Lieutenant r.. A. Thomas, re- [,
red. Lieutenant Harmon was elected :,
cause he brought thirty badly-needed "
cruits TO the company, and Lieutenant | p,
,omas was retired on his own appli- =,
tion. because ne thought 1t best for
: old company. Following is his letter
Captain Causey. explaining his ac-
IN: &,
Deep Creek, Va. May 9, 1898. u
ptain G.. IL. Causey, Jr., Suffolk, va: =.
Dear Harry Enclosed find my applica- +,
m for retirement. l assure you II Is d
IN much regret that / take this step. q
I. aft., going over the matter as talk
about by you and First-Sergeant u
,omas. / feel that l can make the sac u
Ice in order TO let old Suffolk Grays go ri
the front. May success attain to your h