Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-28
ARMS FOR OUR BOYS.
At BOTH CAMP CUBA LIBRE AND
CAMP ALGER.
SIGNIFICANT MOVING S
SIGNS
General Lee is Indignant-The Ques-
tion of Boxes from H0me-A Per-
sonal Dinicuffy I'm tbe Third-The
New Flag.

ciaL)-Arms have arrived for the Virginia
troops. and they will receive them to-
morrow. Quartermaster Coffee, OF the
Second, was to-day ordered 10 furnish
wagons sufficient TO bring two carloads
OF ordnance TO camp When rifles are
received General Lees entire command
will be ready TO take the field. Colonel
Baker will not be made a brigadier-g gen.
eral yet, though he has been command
Ing the Third Brigade for some time He
will be relieved by Brisadier-General II.
c. Hasbrouck. who will report to General
Lee this week.
General orders were issued to-day di-
recting company commanders TO have
their muster-rolls ready for the paymas-
ter. The men will again be paid between
the 1st and 4th Of July. 1t may be said
that the entire corps Is getting into
shape to move ] find n very general be-
lief that the command will be sent TO
the front within a few weeks An old
officer told me to-day that he thought
that pay-days coming 20 soon after the
last and the complete equipment Of the
men were significant Of forward move
ment. Lieutenant A. IL. Percy, Company
T., has been assigned to Major-General
Arnold's staff Captain Simmons as
sist surgeon. Second Regiment, has been
detailed 10 examine the recruits for the
First Florida Regiment. He will visit
various parts of the State.
GENERAL LEE INDIGNANT.
General Lee is very indignant at re-
ports which haze gone out that the SOL
diers here are nct properly lea. me
most recent publication OF this character
appeared i'm a Massachusetts paper rms
affirmed that the men were being drilled
for hours in the broilipg sun, and then
were not given food fit TO be eaten, or 10
keen soul and body together. The article
concluded by asking the reader TO send
a contribution. no matter how small, 10
| a certain man in Jacksonville, who wOuld
| see that the money was used 10 provide
| the soldiers with better food. The mystic
rious part of this communication is tlat
| the man to whom contributions We're
! asked TO be sent denies all knowledge OF
| the authorship, and says he thinks the
| men are well cared for.
They are. They have not received
| equipment promptly-not so promptly az
| many think ii could have been Iurhsnsd
by a government as great and as rich az
|
The food is wholesome and abundant
| II is not such as many of the soldiers
have been used TO, but L only state TACT
| Yhen | say that many of the men get
more food and better food than betore
| they enlisted They grumble the most.
BOXES FROM HOME.
The officers. especially those Of the
| regular army. do not like the men 70 &c
| boxes from home. They say It has beer
| found impossible to keep the heath o
| the soldiers good so long az they con
| tinue to eat the goodies sent from home
There is probably nothing in such talk
| The healthiest class Of men one can hh'
| ara the officers in the regular service
and they largely live on the very thing
which they say the private must no
eat II is very easy fOr those who wea
shoulder straps and enjoy the sumptuou
fare at the Windsor Hotel ana sifhlia
places TO cry down the sending OF eoNe
from home, but the men who nave l
eat the plain fare of the private ga
i'm and day out after having beeh ac
! customed TO the things the ohDcets en-
iov every day, naturally want the dell
cocies boxes from home contain, and er
iov them. If such food doesn't make IN
officer in it won't make the private
| Relatives and friends are often puzzie'
doubtless as TO what they shall put !
a box for the soldier member OF IN
family. After several weeks or III
among the soldiers, and some especil
Investigation as 10 what they most d.
preciate in the way OF glIl, am :
| he oninion that tobacco rs about IN
,,Cs+ accantable thing to send them. {
| coursa ANYTHING in the way OF delicact
that ne annoyed at home viii De 81
loved here, but he has all his hecessiti'
suppled by the government, except tns
no TOBACCO is issued him, ana one az
dicted 10 the weed will bear me out
saving that 1t SIS as much necessary
| life 10 him as several otner thiiso
regarded. OF course, II the pa Pii 'iO ~ ho
| soldier does not use tobacco MS pu
can be filed with other things Dut
have seen supposedly useful contriVahc'
sent him which he will not carry a III
when he marches away from mere >,
. ,tirk a compact case containing neeui
tbread and scissors decidedly the mo-
useful of the latter kind OF Ellts' D
this after having seen great oe"i
narrowing OF such articles by men e'
fortunate. r,,,,rtb Res
,,ant though shipped from Richmoi
several DAYS ago, were not heard ITO
! ,ntu this afternoon, when Generai -
| Siscovered them at his headquarters
rrlo,, arrived some time ago, the GeneI
, go: consigned TO him. but he thought u
box in which they came conta,h'
E cot which friend had pIomlseo
, end him, and did not have IL opeheu
Tn The cot arrived this afternoon i,,s,I al
General Lee at once informed NOR ooiors 1oiT1 Ti
/ Tovior of the arrival Of the colors; ST. ~
: dag will be presented to the regime
Thursday afternoon by Geheldl e,IiIIiSin -
| a.. reouest of Mrs. G. OB. CoWdIuih'
} I1ob,,ond who secured the money WI
I which it was purchased