Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-15
young volunteers. The companies cannot
be ordered out until the ranks are full.
ATTEND CHURCH THIS MORNING.

ATTEND CHURCH THIS MOhNiNO'
Colonel Baker commanding the Second
| Regiment. now almost complete at Camp
Lee, yesterday afternoon issued a request
TO each OF his company captains to attend
divine service with their men at Monu-
mental church this morning at II o'clock.
and II Is understood that as many OF
them as possibly can will comply. The
request was made at the suggestion OF
Acting Chaplain Patton. OF the regiment,
who had received the invitation from Rev.
Mr.. Barr, the rector OF the church.
Company B, Captain RUSSELL command
| ing, which is soon to become a part OF the
Second, was also included in the request,
and will assemble in fatigue uniform at
$50 o'clock at the Regimental Armory,
where they will be joined by the other
companies. and from there they will
proceed TO the church.
A REMARKABLE SCENE.
Few more remarkable scenes OF the
Character have ever been witnessed In
Richmond than that I'm the lobby at Muir
phys last night. A detachment of the
A F. Hill Camp OF Confederate Veterans
OF Petersburg which had escorted the
Petersburg company TO this city, was IN
| the lobby, fraternizing with the officers
and men of various companies. The en-
| thusiasm of the old veterans as they talk
| ed with the young fellows who will be the
veterans of the future. ran high and was
wonderfully infectious. Once company
commander was seen with the arms or
| two grizzled old veterans about him, the
| tears IN their eyes, as they blessed him
| and told him TO stand strong for the flag.
stand up for 1t boy" said one OF them
| stand up for your side, and If you need
more help. we old fellows are pretty
| lively yet, and ready to do our share"
storm of applause from the officers crowd
| ed around followed this remark, and for
| a little while general handshaking was so
vigorous that il seemed as though the
| old fellows would enlist on the spot
Nobody can ever doubt the loyalty OF
| the Confederate veterans OF A. Z. Hill
| Camp.
| Colonel F.. ID. Cole, of Fredericksburg,
| a member of the Governors staff, accom-
panied the Fredericksburg company to
! this city, and last night he entertained
the officers of the company at dinner at
| Rueger's Mr.. A. i. Rowe, brother OF
| the commander of the company, also ac-
| companied it to this city.
| CAPTAIN MILLER'S MOTHER ILL.
A telegram to the Dispatch from Lynch
| burg last night stated that Mrs. Sarah
| Il. Miller, mother of Captain r. l.. Miller,
| of the Fftz Lee Rifles, is extremely i'll at
| her home, in that city. Her physician
|
until morning.
| Troops Moving south.
Troops from the North, bound for
| Tampa are moving rapidly now, and are
| passing through Richmond on almost
| every train Yesterday afternoon, short
! ly after o'clock, there passed through
| a section of Train No. 35 bearing COM
pany of engineer officers from New York,
| 1OS strong. They arrived here when the
Byrd-Street Depot was crowded with peo-
pie waiting for the Petersburg COM
| pany and were loudly cheered
This morning az about o'clock the
| Second Massachusetts Regiment will pass
| over the Atlantic-Coast Line for
| Tampa. They are travelling in a train
| of three seotions-forty-fiv cars In all
| and will go around the city via Clopton.
| Following this closely will be four sec
| tions OF fifteen coaches each, containing
| the Seventy-first New York Regiment,
bound for Tampa. Altogether, there will
| be 1O5 coaches I'm the seven sections.
Many ExcursiOnists Coming.
Richmond will be filled with excur-
siOnists to-day, who come here to see the
| soldiers in camp. At 430 A. NJ. there will
arrive over the Norfolk and Western
| long train of excursionists, and an hour
later train from Lynchburg and points
west on the Norfolk and Western, will
arrive here, bringing another large crowd.
| The Chesapeake and Ohio will also run
a special train in from Clifton Forge,
| bringing excursionists from the west.
Altogether. many hundred strangers will
be here TO see the boys i'm blue at Camp
Lee and take in the city generally
Send-OG for Newport News Soldiers.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. May H.-(Spe-
cial.) 1.-The Huntington Rifles, Company
c. Fourth Virginia Regiment, Captain
F. r. Marye, will proceed to Richmond
tomorrow afternoon at 430 via Chesa-
peake and Ohio. The Rifles will take
ninety-ive men. Captain Marye and his
| men will be given rousing send off at
| the depot tomorrow afternoon. Every
| man in the Huntington Rifles has large
number of friends here. and these, with
parents, wives, and Sweethearts. will be
| out in full force to cheer the patriots to
| the front.
The Business Mems Association to-
night decided TO bid the company fare
well in a body, and has engaged the
| Soldiers Home Band for the occasion.
| There will be speeches at the Casino
| Armory before the infantrymen form to
march to the depot. The members of
Magruder Camp, Confederate Veterans,
| will assemble tomorrow afternoon and
be at the repot to cheer the young
| Virginians on to the front 1t will be a
scene unprecedented in the history of
| Newport News, which, being a young
| city, will tomorrow furnish its first
quota for the national defence.
To Report at Camp Lee.
NORFOLK, VA, May 4.-(Special)-
| Captain A NJ. Higgins, quartermaster of
| the Fourth Virginia Regiment, has re-
ceived orders to report at Camp Lee, in
| Richmond, for duty with his regiment.
| He leaves tomorrow morning. Captain
Higgins is the first regimental officer or
dered for duty with the Fourth Virginia
Regiment.
Colonel Hodges was in communication
with Captain owens, of the Portsmouth
Rifles, at Richmond, to-day In regard TO
the recent transfer of his company from
the Second to the Fourth Regiment.
There having been twelve companies al
ready assigned to the Fourth, the Rifles
making the thirteenth, Captain Owens's
idea is, that there may be room in the
Fourth Regiment for his company, by
reason of one of the other companies al
ready assigned falling to go.
There has been some talk of the Lee
Rifles being transferred from the Fourth
TO the Second Regiment, but there seems
nothing tangible in the report. far as
| could be ascertained here to-day.
A SOLDIER SEVERELY STABBED.