Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-02
NOONDSVLLE 70 KANANBA.
A Description of the Journey Of Com
pany N, National Guard.
Farewells Spoken at
MOundsvllle = Enthusiastic Re
ceptlons at Burton, Fairmont and
Other Points En- Route-An
Abundant Supply of Stogies and
scrap - Ham Sandwiches a
Luxury.

| William Tecumseh Crawford, former
ly OF the Register staff who enlisted
in Company B, of Moundsville, now
Company NJ, and who is to rep
| resent the Register in the West
Virginia regiment, writes the fol-
| lowing description of the journey from
| Moundsvllle tC Kanawha City:
Company B, First West Virginia
| Regiment, of Moundsville, after veNa-
tious delay and disappointment, left
| the metropolis of Marshall county, at
! g.: 80 o'clock p. M, Wednesday, by spe-
cial train. The departure was marked
| by touching scenes and dramatic cpl
/ sodes.
An hour before leaving the company,
| 81 strong, of picked men, drew up IN
| military order in the armOry, and af.er
| careful enumeration; and tabulation Of
names, the manual OF arms was gone
| through, with clock-li1e precision and
| accuracy.
| Order arms.'
! Captain Robert Humphrey gives a
/ final critical look at the well trained
ranks and then receives delegation
! of the fairest Of Moundsville
| ladies, bearing trays of white roses
+, knotted to geranium leaves, with red,
white and blue ribbons On the left
lapel of each loyal brave was pinned
| one of these sacred tokens of Mounds
ville's God speed, and each manly
heart beat faster with new determine
ton to preserve and argument the
| glory of company B.
| Down the stairs by two and two the
| recruits descended to the street, and
| their obliging captain drew them up
in line for the convenience of two
! photographers, and then the company
marched four abreast to the B. & O..
| depot. viewed and cheered by thronging
crowds of admirers.
The final scenes at the depot were
touching, and many a tear was shed.
| and convulsive grasp of hand was
| wrung ere Moundsville heard their
parting cries, and sought their sadden-
| ed homes
Although the boys in manly fashion
| disdained to display their grief by
| tears, yet the evidence of their soften
| ed mood was not lacking; stogies were
passed around by the box full, and
scrap" was plentiful as snow on
! Xmas day, and one of the men in the
abandon of his grief, brought several
| dozen of anti-pain capsules, which he
| passed around with refulgently bene-
| VIOLENT face. One of the soldiers who
was non-smoker, accepting a cigar or
| stogie in a spirit of good-fellowship,
| as each treat passed around achieved
| an envlable reputation for generosity
| by passing them out again the next
| morning, VIXEN a seemingly unlimited
supply had become exhausted, after
| twelve hours of fierece smoking Kind
! hands had prepared for the company
| numerous baskets of ham sandwiches,
| which served as rations for the men
| until the evening of the next day.
The writer would here casually call
| attention to a significant evidence of
! the fitnes of these men for soldiers
| life; for, although many of them had
! subsisted on ham and bread since Mon
| day evening, that being the armory ra-
| tons, when the commissary department
| delivered two large hams at the camp
| they were welcomed with hungry
! cheers.
| Only ore of the guardsmen. whose
sense Of propriety perhaps, exceeded
| his practicabiity. said that he would
be ashamed to stare a hog in the face
after so indulging in his flesh. 1t would
! be tedious to recite the joys and hard
| ships of the ride to Kanawha City,
which was by roundabout route, COW
erlng distance of about 800 miles. via
! Grafton, Parkersburg, and Huntington
! | will but mention the red hot, enthusi-
/ astic reception, at wide-awake, patri-
| otto little Burton. The immense crowd.
| including the Uniformed Rank K of p,
brass bands, etc. which crowded the
depot at solid old F'airmont From
! every farm house and every hamlet
rung out a cheering cry as the train
! sped by. Successfully were added to
| the train additional cars for other COM
panies Of the National Guard of West
| Virginia, taken enroute, and when the
train finally drew up at kanawha City,
fifteen loaded cars disgorged their
| bands of West Virginia braves. whose
motto and whose watchword was:
Remember the Maine.' .-74,
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