The age-herald., 1898-05-29
UNCLE SAM'S MEN
 ON MOBILE BAY One Days Doings In the Mili-
 tary Camps. THE STRICTEST DISCIPLINE Is Enforced With Officers and Men--But They Seem to Like It--coI. Higdon's Staff Mounted. ~
THE sTRICTEST DISCIPLINE

Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald. Mobile, May 2S.-Not single drop of rain
 has fallen since the soldiers began gather
 ing here a month ago, though there was
 heavy rain in Mobile this afternoon. Il
 may be easily imagined that the camp Is very dry-from the lack of water as well as other fluids, which are strictly prohibit ed.
 Speaking of rain, but not of acqua pura, Colonel Higdon is standing under a shower of grateful remembrances from his friends MT. Louis Hart, of Ca6s1en, has made | the colonel a present of a very handsome bridle and pair of saddle blankets. Major l D. M. Scott, of Selma, who is member of General Clark's staff, presented him with a webb-belt and officers pistol, the design being the latest thing in the way of an officers campaign equipment Both of Colonel Higdon's handsome | horses have arrived and today he appeared | on the field mounted. The staff members | entitled to mounts also received their horses, and Chaplain Fitzsimmons Is es- pecially proud of the beautiful a nal given him by the Knights Templar commandery at Birmingham.
 Major Smith has loaned Lieutenant-Col- | onel McDonald one of his horses to be used Zen during of the war;" while the major | is riding "Diamond Dick" one of the finest snecimens of horsef1esh to be seen among the two thousand steeds at Camp Coppln- ger Major Smith, by the way, leaves to- night for Birmingham on a weeks fur
 tough. More Strict Orders
 Every day the regulations are tightening,
 and officers as well as men are held to strict
 account. Here Is the latest communication issued from corps headquarters:
 .srhe commanding general directs as fol-
 lows: Officers will not be allowed to absent
 themselves from camp after dark, except
 by special permission from brigade com
 manders.
 "Enlisted men will not be allowed to ab-
 sent themselves from camp after dark, ex-
 cept in urgent cases"
 Very few privates and 'non-coms'' get to
 come to town at night. and when they are given such leave it is always in the na- ture of a reward of merit. In the day, however, the men can go out of camp at will, but they must be on hand at drill hours. Gradually the regu- lar army system of placing the men con their honor not to shirk duty is being adopted among the volunteers. When they finch fines and Imprisonment in the guard house, and long hours of police duty cleaning the the camp are imposed as pun ishment.
 The order in the First Alabama has been well-night perfect.
 Camp Notes Lieutenant Leon Schwarz will bloom forth tomorrow with shoulder straps as adjutant of the Birmingham battalion. carreort Major Gardiner is evidencing ability in his new position, while Henry Milner Burgin, who was next in the race for the position (there were fifty-one candi- dates), continues to discharge the duties of coloneIs clerk, which he does to perfec- tion. The facilities of approach to the. regulars camp near Spring Hill were increased to- day by the completion of branch road of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City rail- road which gives immedaate connection with the Louisville and Nashville road for troops coming from the west and south. Lieutenant R. D. Mitchie of the Sec ond cavalry. left today for Tampa for service on General Lees staff. Uniforms and blankets were issued to- day to those of the First Alabama vol unteer regiment not before provided. Arms have not yet been supplied. w A. Jackson, private in the Anniston Rif1es First Alabama volunteers, was turned out of camp for false enlistment. He had claimed to be 's narents claimed the contrary,
 without pay for the til
 A number of recru
 bama arrived today
 | to fill vacancies car The good will existing between the regu- | lars and volunteers was emphasized to.
 night by a serenade to Colonel Higdon. of l the First Alabama, by the band of the Eleventh regular infantry. A conflict between state and military au- l thorities occurred today when Sheriff Me Lean, of this county, presented to Colonel | Cox, of the Second Alabama, a warrant | from Pickens county for Frank Fitzpatrick private in Company F, Warrior Guards, or | Tuscaloosa, charging Fitzpatrick with mur- | der. Colonel Cox refused to give Iup the | man. who was mustered in before the war l rant was issued. He has asked for in l structions from the war department. | First Lieutenant R. l.. Bullard. Tenth | United States infantry, arrived here to- l day to take a position as major Of the | First battalion of colored infantry. Bull
 lard is an Alabama boy hsiling from l Opelka.
 | The Second Alabama regiment now | needs only thirty recruits. Today the Mo l bile Rifles mustered in, and nono Monday
 the Eufaula company will talxei service | oath, leaving only three companies yet to | be completed They expect to- have their
 full quotas by Wednesday. aa 1 The coming of the colored battalion may | be delayed until after that date.f This af ! ternoon Colonel Barry Holt. Major Bull 1 lard and Captain Gage were busy arrang- | ing for the negro camp. l EUGENE BURI'S STATEMENT.