Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-24
THE IRHIEW ENDS
Last 1nspsction at Camp Algsr to
I ooeqr Today.
ORDER FOR A MUSqERING-OUT OFFICER
Thirty Sick Soldiers to Be Sent to
Philadelphia.
PRIVATE WELLS TRIAL
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CAMP ALGER, Va, August 24.-The Sd
Virginia, LIST Connecticut. and thu 18th Sig
raj Corps, attached to 1st Division head
quarters, will be- reviewed this evening by
Brigadier General Goblin. acting division
commander. This will complete the review
OF thu troops here, which has been going
on for the last three days. The purpose Of
it is to acauajnt General Goblin with the
men whom he commands and to give the
officers and men the experience and prac-
tice Of brigade reviews.
An order from the War Department, re-
ceived last night, directed the commanding
officer to appoint proper mastering out Off
GERS They have not been appointed as yet,
but Major w. X. Wright, the chief COM
missary officer of the division, by virtue of
Ills rank in the regular army, will probably
be chief, and his assistants, both officers of
the regular army, will probably be Major
NJ. c. Butler and Capt. J. C. W. Brooks. No
steps will be taken toward mastering out
any of the regiments until the War Depart
ment designates which are to go. The Or
CARNATIONS to go will probably be the It'll
ONO, 18th Pennsylvania, I'D Kansas and
1st Rhode Island.
Under Instructions from General Goblin,
thirty soldiers from the Sth, 18th and 18th
pennsylvania Regiments, now sick in the
division hospital, but able to travel will be
sent On the hospital train to Philadelphia
this evening.
Case of Private Wells.
The following order was issued from LIST
Division headquarters this morning:
Private William B. Wells, Company G,
Sd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, having
been tried by general court-martial con-
vened at Camp Alger Va, for violation IF
article Of of ba
specfncation not guilty, and of the charge
not guilty, and the court does therefore
acquit him. The proceedings N the case
are approved. Private Wells will be re-
leased from confinement and restored to
duty. IT,,
THE record in. This case discloses a most
remarkable Condition of affairs in the COM
psny to which this man belongs. A man is
unquestionahy absent from mis- company
from the 10th of July to the LIST of August
without leave, when he Is arrested by the
sergeant and brought into camp His alb
sence is known to his captain. VINO himself
goes in pursuit Of, him, and by the SER
geants having charge OF the roll book ard
the morning record, yet nothing in morn
Ing report. in roll book, nor IN any other
record of the company contains his name
as absent, OF any Indication that he Is not
present, by which the court can be con-
trolled. Such a negligence should not exist
In any command, and is highly censuranle.
A guilty man escapes punishment through
the negligence, on worse, Of the captain
and sergesnts of his company. He should
have been .seonYessant with rths circum-
stances and kept a record az required by
law and regulations. By command of
BRIG. GEN. GOBLIN.
''F. s. STRONG. ASST Adjt. Gen.
Private Gay on Trial.
Private Gay, Company F, 9th New York,
arrested month ago. is now being tried
by general court-martial. His case will
be passed upon within the next few days
and 1t is said to be certain that he will re-
ceive the full limit of the punishment pre-
scribed by military law for his crime
First Lieut.. s. A. Shadrack and Second
Lieut. H. Williams, both of the Sd Vfr-
ginia. have been granted caves of absence
for five and seven days, respectively.