Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-11
SECOND REGIMENT
is FAST FILLING UP.
Cmpanies are Still Losing Men
by Discharges, However, and
the Officers are Indignant.

CAMP CUBA LIBRE. JACKSON
VILE, FLA, July S-(Special.) 1.-The
Second Regiment Is filling up remarkably
fast, and now lacks only seventy-five
men 10 bring the enlisted strength OF the
regiment up to LIZ, the maximum
strength.
The recruiting officers sent home have
done remarkably good work, much better
than was expected, for while recruits
were obtained with tolerable ease while
the regiments were in Virginia, it was
feared that after the troops had left the
State it would be q more difficult matter
TO secure enlistments.
The Fourth has not filled UP so rapidly.
and still lacks a great deal OF the LIZ
men needed to bring 1t to its required
strength. The fact that 1t Is behind the
Second In the matter OF receiving re-
cruits is explained ~ the fact that the
recruiting officers from the latter worked
in the Valley and Southwest, while those
from the Fourth are trying TO obtain men
in Eastern Virginia, where the enlist
ment spirit has never been so strong as
in the first two sections.
Both regiments continue to lose men Dy
discharge. The company and regimentai
officers are greatly vexed at the ruthless
manner in which certain Virginia con-
gressmen are having men with a pun
sent home. II is openly charged by GER
tain officers here that lawyers IN virginia
are making a regular business or having
men dscharged--for a consideration
Captain Marye, Company c. Fourth Regi'
ment, wrote a warm letter to a certain
lawyer. charging him with having taken
two men from Company for money
and the attorney wrote back, saying
Eyes, l am making money, and gooC
money, out of this thing. / am not work
ing for love" There is great indignation
felt and unhesitatingly expressed ar sucf
practice. and the attention of the depart
ment will be, perhaps has already been
| called 10 il.
OFFERING TO NURSE.
A great many women are Offering thei
services to nurse sick and wounded sol
| diers. but none will be accepted. Colone
Maus, chief surgeon Of General Lee
corps. says the medical department or tn
army cannot take one Of them, that the.
! already have their regular nurses, ant
that it would be as easy TO give ever
regiment four majors or two colonies a
10 accept women as nurses without
change in the regulations.
OF course, what the chief surgeon say
is perfectly true, but from what l hay
seen of male nurses at the regimental an
division hospitals | am OF the opinio
that there is no very great amount OF wis
dom in the ruling which denies to wound
| ed and suffering men the boons OF tn
soft step and voice and tender touch OF
woman. If the girls are determined
nurse sick soldiers they will have to q
so as employees of the Red-Cross Society
The Virginia regiments have lost thre
men recently by having them permanent
| ly detailed as mounted messengers a
General Lees headquarters. They ar
| Corporal Smith, Company c, Second Reg
ment; Private Earl Wright, Company L
Second Regiment, and Private Harmon
Company 4, Fourth Regiment. The dc
tail Is permanent and the men will pre-
badly not return to their companies ur
I'll the end Of the war, If then. They ar
in the immediate charge OF Lieutenan
Fitzhugh Lee.
Captain Sheen, Company a, Fourt
Regiment, has received check for Si
the proceeds Of an entertainment in Berk
ley. which he was instructed 10 divid
equally among the eight Berkeley men i
his company.
PERSONAL POINTS.
Walter Amos, of Company !, Secon
Regiment, received a painful wound
the hand while in a playful scuffle wit
Barton Thompson, OF the same company
but his hurt is now getting well.
Private George Merriman. Of this com
pany, is recovering from a protracted III
! ness.
A ball team. composed OF members o
| Company l.. Fourth Regiment, defeate
a team from Company X. OF the sam
regiment, by a score Of TO l. The vic
torious team is a good one. and is Gale
the Gumberry crowd. because al! its mem
| bers come from a section of Portsmouth
which is given that name Kiefer, o
| Company x, and Leach, of Company l.
are players with considerable reputation
I'm Virginia, and will be in the team wit
which II is proposed TO take the cham
pionship from the First Wisconsin boys
A number of the members OF Compan
X. OF the Fourth will give german a
the Jacksonville Armory Tuesday night
Captain Stringfellow, chaplain OF Ia
Fourth delivered a lecture at the bri
gade church tent at 10 o'clock Thursda
morning, which was attended by larg
crowd. II dealt with his wonderful ex
periences as General Lees chief Of scouts
and was greatly enjoyed.