Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-09
ALL HAVE GONE HOME
THE SOLDIERS OF THE THIRD
REGIMENT ENJOYING CIVIL LIFE.
CAPTAINS TO GET TRElR PAY SOON.
Cheeks VIII he Seat Them for the
Amounts Due-Kumor Regarding
the Muster Out of the Fourth.
Work on the Second.

Practically all the soldiers OF the Thir6
Regiment residing outside OF Richmond
are now at their homes. or en- route
thither. those who remained over until
yesterday leaving during the day and last
night.
Several Of the officers are still mere.
but nearly all OF them have gone. The
officers who remained here expected to
be ordered to Washington TO receive theh
pay, but have been notified that checks
will be sent them as soon as their pro-
perty accounts have beensaudited.
1t is expected that the Second Regiment
will have been mustered out at the end
of two weeks. Major Price went TO
Woodstock yesterday to look after work
will go as far as Wytheville before re-
turning. Major Shanks went down to
Portsmouth to SEE about the property ac-
counts of Company l..
Work on these accounts Will be by FAR
the most onerous connected with ,he
muster out of the regiment. The accounts
are not only very complicated, oOt
IL Is very difficult to keep the run of
careless men during six months.
Verincation of the reported intention OF
the department 10 order the Fourth Reg
ment mustered out Of the service is iac%-
ing. Still. the rumor gains general Gre
dence. The depletion Of the regiment Dy
sickness. deaths, and discharges is sdld
10 be the cause Of the proposed muster
out of the regiment.
No question as TO the efficiency OF INC
regiment has ever been raised. OihceTs
and men have a fine record behind them.
The fact that the department refused
to permit the regiment 10 be recruited ~
TO its maximum strength is thought TO %
indicative of an intention to muster IL
out.
BACK TO THE REGULARS.
Major Price, who was appointed to
the Third Regiment from the regular
service. has again donned the red shoul-
der-straps of a first lieutenant of drtn-
lery.
Major Shanks will soon have to put on
his captains uniform, as he VIII IN
short time be mustered out as MAJOR III
the Second. Major Shanks is a captain IN
the Eighteenth Infantry, which is now
at Manila. He will not be ordered TO
ioin hts regiment until he has completed
the work of mastering out the Second.
Major Shanks has been detailed as com
mandant at Backsburg for the past four
wears. and as this is the limit of the
time which a regular officer is allowed
to serve at military schools he cannot
GO back. Major Price will probably go
back 10 the Virginia Military institute
where he has been commandant for TWO
years. General Ship, the superinten-
dent. has asked the Secretary OF war
TO send him back as soon as possible.
A MEDAL. TO SERGEANT MANN.
Captain ]. D. Allen, of Company c,
Third Regiment, yesterday presented to
Sergeant James Mann, OF his company
a handsome gold medal as a mark OF lis
anpreeiat ton Of the sOldiery qualities oil
the recipient. The medal bears the fol-
loving inscription;
presented to Sergeant James Mann,
Company c, Third Virginia Infantry,
United States Volunteers, as a token Of
his high appreciation Of him as an Off
GER"
on the reverse is this inscription:
"Spanish-American war, 1885,
Sergeant Mann is a member or the
House of Delegates from Nottoway coun-
ty. but when the call for volunteers came
he promptly responded, and as there was
not commission to be had he enlisted
as a private but was speedily made
sergeant. Captain Allen Is unstinting in
his praise OF his sergeant. Sergeant
Mann did a great deal Of work on he
company rolls when preparing for mus
tering out. and those Of his company
were of the very few that were not re-
turned by the department for correction