Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-08
SHANKSC COMING BACK
HE HAS SECURED ENOUGH Re-
cRuITs FOR FIRST BATTALION.
WORK or MUSYERMG BEGINS TO-DAY.
A sauad of Enlisted Men Leave Here
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Omcer
Not Yet Here.-other Military News
Notes.

1 ~ now getting the negro Dattdilons redhy
for service, will arrive in Richmond this
| morning from Danyille, whittier he went
| after recruits for the First Battalion
| He secured twenty-eight in Lynchbure
| and Salem and thirty-three in Danvllle
yesterday, and these men have been or
| Gered to Richmond. They will arrive this
morning. and will, It is thought, fill out
| the vacant places In the three companies
here. The work OF mastering the COM
| panies In will commence forthwith, and
Major Price said TO a Dispatch man last
night that just as soon as a company is
complete he will order IL into camp at
Poplar Grove. He hopes to be able to
get at least one company under canvas
Tomorrow.
He has tho tents and other camp equip
age in cars here now. and will be pre-
pared for the men as soon as Major
Shanks turns them over 10 him.
PETERSBURGERS ARE READY.
Major Price paid flying visit to Peters
burg yesterday. and says the battalion
over there is apparently in excellent con-
dition.
Two of the companies report having
over ninety men each ready for war. and
the other has lO6 men on its rolls. There
are also about 100 negroes at Pocahontas,
who are anxious 70 enlist with the Second
Battalion. and 1t is probable that they
will be called upon.
Six recruits for the Second Massachu-
setts Regiment passed through the city
last night en- route to Fort Caswell, n. c.
The men were under the care of Mr.. T.
Abbott, a strapping Englishman, who was
for ten years a member of the Second
Dragons, of England, known as the
Queens Bays. Mr.. Abbott held the posi-
ton of lance corporal. and purchased his
release, or rather his discharge, for
eighteen pounds sterling. for the purpose
of coming to this country to fight. He
has seen service both in India and Egypt,
and is every inch soldier. He could not
make connection for Fort Caswell last
night. so stopped over here with his men.
and they were given lodging at the st.
Claire Hotel. They will resume their jour-
ney this morning.
THE ENGINEERS OFFICER.
Major Willoughby Wake, the recruiting
officer for the Third Regiment of Engi-
neers. who has been ordered to this city
for his organization, has not yet arrived.
though he is expected this week He will
go from here to Charlotte. N. c.. Savan-
nah. Ga, and Jefferson Barracks, Mo,
and all the recruits he secures will be
forwarded TO the last-named place, where
they will be mustered into the Federal
service.
RECRUITS FOR JACKSONVILLE.
tot off min ftc
for the Second Regiment at noon yester-
day and Lieutenant Klein shipped seven
to the Fourth. The trip was made via
the Southern railway.
Following is the list OF the men:
For the Second-Eugene H. Seward lin
CHARGE, Richard J.. Meadors. Harry A.
Barnett. William j. Sturglss, Charles L.
Cooke, Jr., Gus L. Perdue Frederick Il.
Talcott Clifford L. Taylor, Kit Need
ham.
For the Fourth-Timothy L. Light On
charge). William r. Merritt, Josiah l..
Moles. Eddie NJ. Bots. Walter D. Waugh.
Joseph S. Rasnick, Abram C. Open
heimer.
Major Hartz. in charge of the United
States army recruiting-st on Broad
street, is still confined to his residence by
sickness His condition is somewhat inn
he will be able to be out.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mr.. d. Hardy Pyle has received letter
from his son, Eugene, who has resided
for several years in Baltimore, saying he
mad enlisted in the Maryland volunteers.
and would join his command at Fort
Monroe.
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee and family left last
evening I'm a special car over the Atlantic
Coast Line to join General Lee in Jack
;onvlle. They expect to be absent until
he fall.
Captain ]. e. B. Stuart, recently ap-
pointed in the commissary department, !
has been ordered to report to Major-Gen-
,ral Warren Keifer at Miami Fla. and |
eft Jacksonville for that point Wednes |
lay He will be assigned to a brigade |
n the First Division of the Seventh |
Corps as brigade commissary.