The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-13
WOULD FIGHT AGAIN
Belonged to Famous Compa-
ny of the 26th N. c.
JNO. SUMMERROWS TALE
EQUIPMENT NEARLY COMPLETE
AND THE BOYS MAY MOVE
SOON.
COL. CARR WORKING FOR THAT END
Nearly All the Equipment for the Regiment has
Anived.-The Sick Ones Improving
and the Boys Longing for
Active Service.

All the way from Caldwell came Jno.
T.. Summerrow, an old veteran of the
civil war. to enlist in Company c, Cap
tain Jones, and try the fortunes of war
again.
No man knows better what war IS
than Summerrow. He was Il member
of Company Il in the Twenty sixth
North Carolina regiment during the clvll
war. and was shot through the neck IN
the fight ut Gettysburg. Company f Ill
that battle had every member elther
killed or wounded.
Summerrow was ut the side of the
brother of Colonel Burgwyn. of the Sec
ond regiment. when he was killed in bat
tie and was also present when Lieuten-
ant Colonel Jones. brother of Captain
Jones. of Company G. fell in the battle
of the Wilderness. The old veteran is
still hale and hearty and was exceed
ingly anxious to be enrolled in Captain
Jones company. He is beyond the age
limit, however. and that officer was de-
prived a most excellent soldier greatly
to his regret. Colonel Burgwyn will ar
range to send Summerrow back TO his
home in Caldwell.
Colonel Julian s. Carr. seeing the
anxiety of the boys of the Second to 90
to the front. left last night for Wash
inston to confer with the officials of the
War Department and attempt to have
the regiment assigned to active service
either in Cuba or the Philippines inn
mediately. Nothing official has been re-
ccivcd. but headquarters have already
heard from Colonel Carr's work. and
i'm the tents it was the one topic of con-
versa ton yesterday afternoon. To man.
nothing could please the regiment better
than to be ordered to strike camp ana
board the train for Charleston and
thence take transports for Santiago
where glory is to be won.
The sick in the hospital are all inn
proving. There are at present 66 pa
tients in the wards, the majority having
measles. Ten new cases of that disease
were reported yesterday. most of them
being mild and the patients will be out
in few days. The four cases of typhoid
fever all show a change for the better,
Block. of Company l.. who was in a
dangerous condition and was not eX
pected to recover, now has n good fight
ing chance and the surgeons hone to
save him. The indications are in his ia
yOr
Private Bryan who has cerebro-Spinal
menengitis. has passed the crisis of the
disease and will probably recover Six
patients who were suffering with a mild
form of fever are convalescent. One of
the hospital attendants is i'll. Sergeant
O'Connor. of Company r. was taken to
the hospital yesterday. but is only slight
ly i'll.
The regiment drilled yesterday morn
ing, but did not have the usual dress
parade in the afternoon because of the
rain
Captain Husk. of Company A. was
officer of the day yesterday and Lieu
tenant Curry. of Company f, was officer
of the guard
The complaint rs to the hospital serv-
ice would seem to be unfounded. The
sick are carefully nursed and are pro-
vided with everything in the way of
delicacies and medicines the army regu-
lations permit. The food served to the
patients is well prepared and sufficiently
tempting. Fresh bread. rice, oatmeal.
milk. tea, and. whenever the condition
Of the patient warrants it, meats are
given. The hospital is perfectly clean,
the cots comfortable, and. all things con
sidered. patients are perhaps as well
cared for as they would be at home.
a large quantity of equipments has
arrived and will be distributed to the
soldiers. Among the lot are $50 uni
forms. 80 blankets, 1000 wooden shirts.
300 campaign hats, Il full supply OF shell
ter tents, a number of common tents, 800
ponchOs, Il quantity of undertaking and
800 pairs of campaign shoes.
The main thing needed now is 400
pairs of leggngs which have been slower
to arrive than anything else.