The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-20
AND THREE SPECIAL TRAINS
WILL BEAR AWAY THE BOYS.
THOUSANDS OF LOVED ONES
Visited the Camp Yesterday and with TIE ar
Stained Faces Babe the Brave Boys
Fond FarewelIs. Bat
talion Routes.

Coast Line SDecldI, one cedDodIu All
Line speciaI, and one special over the
Southern.
The troops will go in three battalions,
but the battalions will not be formed as
they are in the camp. The two Char
lotte. the Concord and the Durham COM
panies will form one battalion to go by
the Southern. which passes the home
towns of each of these companies.
Col. Armfeld and staff will go in spe-
cial car over the Southern.
The companies above named, to-wit
Company A, of Charlotte.
Company l., of Durham.
Company H., of Concord.
Company NJ, of Charlotte, will form the
battalion to go via the Southern. 1t will
be in charge of Major Smith, command
er of the First Battalion; Adjutant Pat
ton and DIR. II. NJ. Wilder, Surgeon III
charge.
The Coast Line battalion will be made
up of the following companies:
Company b., of Goldsboro.
Company c., of Winston.
Company d., of Reidsyille.
Company f.. of Statesville.
Major Rutzler and Adiutant ALI
son will be in command, with DR.. Jor-
dan Surgeon in charge.
The battalion going over the Seaboard
Air Line will be composed of the follow
ing companies:
Company *, of Raleigh.
Company f.. of Asheville.
Company H., of Waynesville.
Company g.. of Shelby.
- A n st4ta nj
Johnson commanders; DR.. Archey, Sur
geon in charge.
The troops will all move from the
camp about IL o'clock a. M, and board
the trains that will be in waiting in the
order named. These three trains will
move ont promptly and by shutdown or
little afterwards each will have passed
cut of the State, carrying to the front as
brave and loyal patriots as ever should
cred a musket in defense of the country
they loved.
As they pass along through the three
different sections of the State, other pa
triotis, men and women, old and young
will doubtless speed them on with words
OF comfort and good cheer.
= The Regimental officers will have a
special Pullman car on the Southern's
train. These officers are Col. j. Il. Arm
field, commanding First regiment: l.. b.
Alexander, Adjutant; Calvin y. Cowles
Lieutenant Colonel DR.. A. A. Pruden,
Chaplain; Quartermaster, ID. G. Harrell:
Ouartermaster Sergeant, Linster; Ser
geant Major, Heritage; Hospital Stew
ards. pritchard and Mcknight. This
car will be attached to the same special
train that takes the first battalion.
There will also be attached a stock
car for conveying the horses of the reg
mental officers. 1t will contain fifteen
horses and their equipment. The South
ern train will go in two sections.
The Southern special is due TO reach
Tampa at 8 o'clock a. IN. Sunday. The
other trains will doubtless land about or
near the same time.
So the boys are taking their
departure. These are noble, brave
and patriotic men; they leave
happy. comfortable homes, make many
sacrifices of business interest to obey the
call to duty under the flag of their coun-
try. They have no individual ambitions
TO appease; they have no individual feel
ing of luminosity against the people Of
Spain; they have no individual interest
in the Isle of Cuba; but they Remember
the Maine" they remember, too, that the
edict has gone forth that Cuba must
be free" They have not gone forth 10
ayenge any individual or personal wrong,
but when their country called they hesi-
tated not a moment, nor is there any
manifest feeling of fear or regret at the
orders TO move forward nearer the storm
centre of war. They know what it
means; they knew when they volunteer
ed: there are regrets Of course at part
ifeg xxrIfE ptane h. 4 ,T
mothers eyes, the quiyering lips of the
loving wife, the tender gIances of the
sweet little boy, the rosk checked little
girl; the fond farewells of the pretty
maiden, whose heart is aching because
her hero is going away for n time at
least-let MS not say perhaps forever
these sad farewells melt the eyes of the
bravest of the departing soldiers but II
is not weakness, it is heroism. AS one
Of the bravest Of the captains said yes
terday: Il would rather face a regiment
of Spaniards right now than to say good.
bye to my wife and my two little chill.
dren." Said another: Il am not COW.
ard, ] have no fear, ! know / have the
courage to stand ut my post and face
any danger that may come. but a lad,
friend came Il moment ago to say to me
goodbye tears came into her eyes
Oil, Sucn tears, sucH streams or pure and
holy emotion from a sympathetic heart: ]
wept. yes, / wept: was it weakness? No
I'll not believe it, for | am not weak. fol-
! could face Blanco with his host of war,
riors. but those loving, melting eyes
they conquered me-
Yes, am glad that / am not to pass
my home town en- route to Tampa said
another officer. 81 have said goodbye
to my wife and my little ones: hC
wound has been made and it has beer
sewed up: | don't want to cut fh,
threads and reopen that wound, it has
bled enough. 1t has not healed, oh, no
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