The age-herald., 1898-06-10
4 SOLDIER OF THE
 FIRST IS DEAD He Sleeps Near the Bay in the
 National Cemetery. PRIVATE GLEN OLSEN, co. l The First Member in Camp to Fall a Victim to Typhoid Fever. REGRET WERE HIS LAST WORDS Boys, Am Afraid l Won't Be Able
 to Go With You" WHEAToN's DIVISION TO PENSACOLA A Report Out That This Will Be a Point of Colonel Higdon and
 Staff Were Entertained at Din
 ner By Judge AustiIl.
"Boys, l Am Afraid Won't Be Able
 to Go With You."
WHEAToN's DIVISION TO PENSACOLA
Special Dispatch to the Aye-Ha,ala

{ Special Dispatch to the Age-Herald.
 Mobl le, Ala, June 9.-Death visited the camp of the First division, First army c2rps, here today, it being the second fa- tality that has occurred nee the troops arrived in this camp the first of May. The fl st victim, Sergeant Collins, was shot and killed by a negro tefore the volun- teers were mustered five weeks ago He was a membr of the Firs Aab ama in . try, and a strange fate finds tcday's death rec r. ed in the anne reg me t-Piivate Olen Olsen, Company I, Anniston, Ala.
 He had been i'll two weeks with typhoid fever, says the regimental surgeon, while the troors were encamped on the bay shore, before being moved to the regime l. tai high grounds.
 O.san was a native of Sweden and for merly sailor. For number of years he has been living in Mobile, where his bro h. CT is a merchant. He enlisted with the Annis on company after it's arrival here, and at once became popular.
 Camp Bowed Down in Sorrow
 rrow per aded the camp this m 5rning when mess engsrs brought the news of his death at the division hospital and the en- tire First Alabama wanted to attend the funeral, but according to regulations squad of sixteen privates of his company, accompanied by the chaplain, assorted the remains to the National cemetery, where the burial, with military honors, took place at sundown. After the nterment the sex ton of the beautiful home of the federal dead remarked to Chaplain Fitzsimmons:
 'Sir, we have called this a national cemetery, but it has only become such in fact just now when we buried an Ala bama follower of the stars and stripes alongside the brave fellows who died for Old Glory years ago Olsen is the first southern soldier to be inferred here.''
 Just before he became unconscious Olsen said to his comrades who stood around his cot:
 Boys, I am afraid I won't be able to go with you"
 This seemed to be his only regret, and the dying request to his brother was that he be buried in the National cemetery on the bay shore where the magnolia trees that catch the winds from the gulf, beyond which his soldier spirit longed to be.
 May Be Moved to Pensacola
 A report based on good grounds and, emanating from official quarters is in cir culatlon here today to the effect that the first General Wheaton's division, of the fourth army corps will be moved to Pen sacola as soon as the regiments receive their complete equipments. General Cop pingers corps, 1t is asserted, will be con- centrated at Pensacola, there to embark for Porto Rico
 When questioned about his matter an officer attached to corps headquarters be- fore leaving for Tampa this afternoon, said:
 General Coppinger, you remember, vis- ited Pensacola several weeks ago and found there ample camp grounds. convenient to the wharf. Possibly his corps will embark there. The Mobile harbor bar seems diff ficult of passage for the larger transports, and probably for this reason the plans contemplating the standardization of large portion of the army here were changed. I hardly think it probable that the whole army will be sent through Tampa"
 Though giving no authority for their be- lief it is nevertheless accepted as fact that the Fourth Army corps is destined for Porto Rico and will move in two or three weeks. or as soon as equipped.
 The general health in the division here is very good
 In the First Alabama
 In the First Alabama today Lieutenant L. c. Brown, adjutant, was appointed gen. eral recruiting and mastering officer for the regiment which needs about 300 men to place it on full war footing. The regi- ment is now drilling daily in battle forma- tion.
 This evening Colonel Higdon and his staff and line officers are guests at a dinner rendered in their honor by Judge H. Austill.
 The Lomax Rifles, which Is the only com pany of the Second regiment not yet mus tered, expects to fill up and take the oath tomorrow. In the meantime Colonel Cox's men are being equipped and are up with the other regiments in drilling.
 Hot fight on Garden Hose. Now's the fima to sprinlle your yard. Alabama Gas