The age-herald., 1898-08-10
COLORED TROOPS !. ON MOBILE BAY Some Incidents of the Dusky
 Warriors Camp Life. BUGLE SOUNDED ITO ARMS" In the Dead of Night and the Negro Vol unteers Thought Them Spaniards
 Had 'Em, Shore"-AE Com
 panies Mustered In.
.BUGLE SOUNDED ITO ARMS'

Special Dispatch to the Age-Herald. Mobile, Ala, Aug. 9-As has already been stated in these dispatches, the Third Alabama regiment of volunteer infantry is now completed and the companies and battalions mustered into service.
 For the past day or two the officers and men of the regiment have been very much stirred up over the rumor that the steam ships Birmingham and Plymouth, now in Mobile harbor, were transports, and would De used to take the Third Alabama regi- ment to some point in the West Indies. This seems hardly probable, however, as the regiment is still lacking in arms and some other equipments that are absolutely essential for active service.
 The men are being drilled four hours a day and are showing remarkable aptitude in learning. The officers hope to have them in condition to move within the next three or four weeks should their services s be needed in that time.
 Birm.ngham's Representatives
 Of the thirty-six line officers in the regi- ment, eleven are from Birmin gham; al o one of the staff, Assistant Surgeon Dab ney Luckie.
 They are Capt. Harris C. Vaughn, Com pany E, who resigned his position Of ser geant in the Jefferson Volunteers, Fist Alabama, to join the Third as a captah' Capt. S. E. Perkins, Company D; Capt. John Trimble, Company F, who, by the way, is one of the youngest captains in the United States army, being not quite 2l years of age and Capt. R. l.. Tilghman' Company M.
 The first lieutenants are John Lond-n, Company F; Kelly Parsons, Company h. and w. J. Boes, Company M.
 The second lieutenats are Lieutenant Robert Hagood Company C.; Everett Meade, Company F; Ernest Redd company M, and Rozier Casey, Company l.
 Quite an amusing incident happened Tn camp the other night, showing what the colored volunteer is in his present un- trained condition. -ts.t
 The call to arms was sounded at mid- night. when the whole camp was sound asleep The wild notes of the bugle pene- trated every tent in the camp, ana even ,hc drowsiets negro was forced to hear.
 Even to the veteran, sudden. call to arms in the dead of night is an exciting event. but to these recruits, especially 10 the newest companies, it was something ap- mailing. The officers ran down the com- pany streets waking the men up and urging them to turn out quickly.
 ., An Unmartial Sight
 -sButea very .unmartial sight they beheld in some of the tents for there huas}ed together back in the corners were some of these dusky warriors covered with blank cts, clothes, and, in fact, everything they could find.
 One of the men yelled. 70, Lordy Lordy, the Spaniards has come an we aint got our gunS!"
 When finally by the liberal use of threats and force the men were gotten from their tents into line, they stood, many of them, with chattering teeth and shaking knees like condemned criminals.
 After the roll was called, one of the men wanted to know if that was all that was wanted, and on being assured that it was, he said he could have been in line much quicker but he thought them Spaniards sho had us.' Notwithstanding some of the companies had never before heard this alarm call, the whole regiment was formed within three minutes after the first note of the bugle was sounded.
 There is little no sickness in camp and only few accidents. Last week, Smith Norman, a private in Captain Tighlman's company threw a baseball with such force that one of the bones in his arm was broken.