The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-11
their kindliness, their sympathies, their

their kindness, their sympathies, their
hospitality.
BY thousand ways the citizens can
do good on that day and on the days
to come when the individual members
of the regiment need help and comfort.
Many of the men are returning without
the assurance of employment, who gave
up remunerative positions and abandoned
trades to enlist. Care is to be taken III
the sections from which these men come
that they do not suffer because of their
enforced idleness or from their inability
through weakness or disease to resume
their occupations. The missionary work
will begin, therefore, Immediately after
the regiment has been dismissed and the
hundreds of volunteers scatter in all III
rections. Painstaking diligence is to be
exercised that they do not suffer silently.
They are to be hunted up, relieved, and
given to understand the true meaning of
a nations gratitude and pride and char
ity.
These endeavors will in no wise inter
fere with the formalities of any display
the people of Raleigh may care to make
on the arrival of the boys here this week.
AS the regiment marches along the
tons and walled in by cheering throngs
of relatives, friends and fellow-citizens.
Raleigh viii give evidence of its unstint-
ed desire to stamp the homecoming as
a time of public rejoicing. a day of mean
ing. both to the city and to the nation.
Now a practical suggestion. The regi-
ment will soon be here. The time IS
short. 1t is not even sufficient for the
calling of meetings of citizens. Let pub
lic-spirited men confer among them
selves, appoint themselves committee
to make such preparations as may to
them seem proper in welcoming the
boys back. Be sure the ladies will 10
their part.
The soldier boys are entitled to all hon
or. Let the capital city take the lead
in paying them due homage.
The question has often been asked:
What will become of the regular army
officers in the volunteer service? Many
such were relieved from their stations
temporarily in order to accept higher POI
sltions in the volunteer service. 1t Is
asked whether they will continue in SER
vice at the higher grade when the regi-
ments in which they are serving are mus
tered out The War Department has de-
cided that such officers return to the
grade of the regular army which they
vacated They will report for assign
ment when the regiments with which
they have been serving are finally mus
tered out.
In the Second North Carolina regiment
which will be mustered out here this
week there is only one regular army
officer-Major Wilder He will return
to his former command in the regular
army.
The official record of the War Depart
ment as far as completed shows that
there were thirty-three officers and 231
enlisted men of the army, 264 in all, kill
ed in battle during the war with Spain.
These casualties include all the lives
lost in the army in the battles in the
Philippines as well as those in Cuba and
Porto Rico. The percentage of officers
killed is strikingly large and is said TO
be unprecedented in the battles of the
world. The contrast is especially strik-
ing in the case of the battle of Omdur-
man where, although the loss of life was
particularly heavy, the list of killed in
GUIDED only one officer of the British
army.
Lieutenant Shipp, who fell in Porto
Rico or Cuba, viii rest finally in Ameri-
can soil. This information is conveyed
by telegram sent to Madison, Wis,
by Governor Schofield who is now in
Washington. In full the dispatch is as
follows:
1.-THE government has arranged to bring
home the bodies of soldiers deceased ia
Cuba or Porto Rico. The War Depact-
ment informs me nothing will be done
about this until all the troops now in
the service are nroperlY cared for