The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-20
TO BE FURLOUGHED
THIS MORNING
All WHO Desire Can Return to Their
Homes Today.
COLONEL HIGD0N Is Ill
About Three Hundred Men Will be Re-
tanned in Camp.
THE REGIMENT NEEDS SURGEONS
Sick in Hospitals Receiving Excellent
Attention-Men Laying Plans to Give
Colonel Higdon Testimonial of
Their Love and Esteem.

ing, good from Septemer 20 to Octoer 20.
The officers will begin signing the furloughs
about o'clock, and the will begin
leaving as soon thereafter possible for
their various homes in Mort hAlabama.
They will begin leaving all of todays
trains, Their furloughs will entitle them to
half fare rates on the railroads.
Each of the men must take all of his
accoutrements with him, for it will be
easier to keep account of them in that way
than if they We're all piled together and
+ left in camp. While the men are off from
camp they are allowed % cents day for
rations.
There will be about 300 men who do not
desire furloughs who will remain in camp
to care for the property Though discip-
line will not be relaxed, the mems duties
will not be as heavy as usual, and 1t is
thought that their stay at East Lake will
be very pleasant one. There will be no
provost guard in the city unless the &C.
casion demands. Adjutant Lucen Brown,
Lieutenant Pride of Company E, and Lieu
tenant Perkins, of Company II, have vol
unteered to remain in camp during the
next thirty days, and they will be the Of
fcers in command.
and was confined to his bed The colonel
has not been in good health since he left
Miami and the strain of the last few days
has proven too much for him, though Mrs.
Higdon, who was in camp with him last
night, HOPES that he will be better this
morning. Major r. O. Smith was in COM
mand of camp last night.
Doctors Hunter and Sheldon, who were
dpta Had fro tl.N1 i,to
souville to accompany the First to Birm-
ingham have been ordered to report back
to their regiments and they will leave this
morning. Colonel Higdon teegraphed the
war department yesterday that more sur
geons were needed, and asked that they
be permitted to stay at least week longer
But the department affirmed its previous
order, and they will leave this morning.
DIR. Lewis Morris, who until recently has
been one of the assistant surgeons of the
regiment, has been reappointed assistant
surgeon for the time being and he will as
sist DR.. Fletcher, who is now acting as
chief surgeon, to care for the sick.
Sick in the ospitals
Both the men in the infirmaries of the
city and those in the temporary hospital
which has been established in the armory
of the Birmingham Rifles, are being well
cared for, and none of the cases re-
garded as very dangerous. The typhoid
patients are receiving so much better treat
mept in the infirmaries than they did in
the hospital at Jacksonville and Miami that
their recovery is only matter of short
time.
The only serious case in the temporary
hospital is that of e. S. Johnson, who was
wounded by a bayonet thrust yesterday,
and it is very probable that he will recov-
err They are receiving all of the medical
attention and nursing necessary.
But the nurses complain that they do
lack a few of the Injuries with which
hospital should be equipped They need
more towels, wash basins, drinking glasses,
night gowns, ice, lemons etc. They say
that if there is anybody in the city who de-
sires to contribute any of these articles,
they will be most cheerfully and thank
fully received.
Ladies should Visit Them
The nurses complain that so few-in fact.
none at aIl--of the ladies come up to visit
the sick boys Most of them are GONZALES
cent and few short visits from some OF
the good women of Birmingham would do
a great deal toward Frightening up the
hospital. The patients have been hearing
OF the thousands of ladies who have been
going out to East Lake to see the boys
there, and it makes them all the more anA-
ious to see them in the hospital.
The dress parade and review which was
held on the East Lake drill grounds Sunday
afternoon was the largest and most sue
5n M
Birmingham The long line of blue-clad
soldiers stretched out over a quarter of a
n,ile in length, and they were surrounded
by a dense wall of cheering humanity who
had floeked out from the city TO witness
the sight There were over lo.oo0 people Oh
the grounds, and their enthusiasm was i'm
parted to the soldier boys. They went
through the evuIurions with vim and dash
that was refreshing. Before the parade the
Jefferson Volunteers went through the
company drill iii excellent style. They were
orderd to go through these movements on
the field III order 20 draw off part Of the
vast crowd. which early III the afternoon
thronged the camp.
The regimental band was greatly
strengthened by the addition of Memoirs
band which had been playing at the lake
all the afternoon. When this big aggrega-
ton Of nearly fifty pieces marched down
the line in front of the regiment at dress
parade to the inspiring strains of Eel Capi-
tan" II was truly martial sight.
Throneed W it'll Visitors
After the regiment had passed in review
in front Of Colonel Eligdon and his staff,
and had retired from the fed, the camp
was again thronged with visitors, many of
whom remained until late hour.
Dress parade and review were held again
yesterday afternoon, but there was not as
large acrowd present as there had been on