Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-07
CAMP POPLAR GROVE.
siNGLEToN's FARM To NE SELECT
ED ron THE NEGROES.
RECRUITS COMING FROM SOUTHWEST
FIRST Battalion soon to he Mustered
in-C"ptain Mackey Has His Com
o"ny OF Immune- Almost Complete.
To Go To Augusta This Week.

! There seems 60 be no doubt now that
the negro volunteers will be mobluzcd al
Singleton's farm, or what IL better known
| as Poplar Grove, about ten miles below
Richmond, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad. Colonel Croxton, TO whom the
other officers charged by the Governor
with the selection OF the camp, have
deferred, has practically decided in favor
or this place. and as soon as he RECEIVERS
from his indisposition. which will prob
ably be within the next day or so. he
viii put his decision in writing and notify
the War Department at Washington.
II Is thought likely, too, that as soon
as the selection IS finally made there will
be troops ready to go into camp. Major
Price who returned yesterday from Lex
ington, received last night telegram
from Major Shanks saying he had secured
twenty recruits in Lynchburg and eight
IN Roanoke. and would leave for Danyile
to-day, where he expects to secure
sufficient number to FIJI out the three COM
panies in this city.
Major Price has arranged transporta-
ton for the men now in Lynchburg and
night. They will all be assigned to one
company. so as to ill that out as soon
as possible. and I'm the mean time they
will be quartered in the colored armory
on Leigh street. As soon as the first com
pany is complete il will be ordered into
camp and mustered in.
Captain Mackey of the immune COM
pany, has about completed his work here.
and will leave tomorrow or next day
with his command TO join his regiment in
Augusta, Ga. He has on his rolls now
sixty-eight men who have passed muster,
twelve having been turned down by the
medical examiners. He expects to secure
the men he lacks this morning, and in
that event Lieutenant Rowell, of the
Fifth Cavalry Regiment, will this after
noon at o'clock begin the work of mus
tering them in The regiment to which
this company will be assigned will be
sent 10 Cuba as soon as IL is completed.
and the idea now is to use ii for the pur-
pose of garrisoning the cities captured
by the fighting army.
At the ST. Claire recruiting-station four
men were enlisted yesterday for the
Second and Fourth regiments, and IL
more are recruited to-day. a squad will
be shipped to Camp Cuba Lbre, al Jack
sonville on the noon train to-day. The
work at this station has not progressed
as rapidly as had been expected. A great
many more men are needed. and ii is pro-
bable that Captain Bossieux and Lieuten-
ant Kline will be here for some time yet.
The recruiting officer for the Third
Regiment Of Engineers. who, according TO
the Associated Press dispatches, has been
assigned 10 duty here has not yet put
in his appearance. and 1t is not known
where he will establish headquarters.
Sherwood Coleman, Of Virginia. is a
lieutenant in Colonel Woods Rough
Riders, and is with his command at San
tiago. His father, Colonel Clayton G..
Coleman, is in government service in New
Mexico. His mother and sisters are we'll
known residents of this city.