Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-08
BOYS SEND GOOD BYES
Members Of Company A Extend
Greetings Through
The Argus.
THEY SAIL TODAY FOR SANTIAGO.

The Last Day at Camp Alger - Ros-
enfield an Orderly on Surgeon white
sides stan and VIII Go on the
Columbia With the GsneraI-in- Chief
Other News.
Charleston, s. c.. July Ito THE
Rock ISLAND ARGUS: Company A
leaves on the Yale; l go on the
Columbia. goodbye, Rosy.
Rock Island soldier BOYS are off TO-
day for Santiago lie Cuba. As will
be seen by the above the 9th regiment
sails from Charleston on the Yale.
Private Louis Rosenfield, having been
selected as orderly on the staff of
Surgeon Whiteside. goes on the
cruiser Columbia. which is to convey
also Gen. Nelson A. Miles and staff
and other officers
Col. ID. Jack Foster. of the 9th ILL
nois, sent the following message to the
Chicago Times-Herald last night: The
9th Massachusetts and one battalion
of the 9th Illinois will leave tomorrow
morning on the Yale. Don't know
when the other batallions will leave.
ID. j. FOSTER
The last vestiges Of the 9th Illinois
disappeared yesterday afternoon from
Camp Alger. when Lieut.. Clendenin.
Corp. Beard and % men with six
horses started for Hampton Roads to
embark on the Grand Duchess and
sail for Santiago, where they will Join
their comrades. who sail on the Yale
and Columbia.
The Last OF Camp Alger.
Dunn Loring, Va. July 5.-It is II
O'Clock (midnight) and we are waiting
for the train to take us to Charleston
S. c.. thence to sail to Santiago. We
were all glad to receive this good
news. and when We get there we will
show that the 9th Illinois volunteers
can fight rs well as any.
All the boys were paid except the
hospital corps. Not one is sick in
Company A. and few in the regiment.
| have been made DR.. Whiteside' :
orderly-and still the good work goes
on.
Mrs. Flood and the Misses FitZpat-
rick left today after saving bood-bye
to all the boys.
Col. ID. Jack Foster does more work
than any other officer in the bunch.
The Sth Ohio goes to New York,
where it will embark on the st. Paul.
of which Capt. Sigsbee is captain.
All the boys join in SAYING good
bye to our Rock Island friends and
relatives, and wishin short time we
hope we will return with the sag of
victory waving over us, and to see
old friends who have been so Kind TO
us. And if the time should come
when any of us must 90 to the good
land. Just think that we have zone a
Others have-for that great cause,
one that every man can and should
feel proud to battle for to save the hon
or Of our great and beloved country.
You should have seen the bows
when that order came. They Just
went wild with delight. All the
boys are telling me to say good
bye to The ARGUS for them.
No more just now, as l am sleepy,
so goodbye. RosEY.
Tho Naval Reserves.
The Moline Dispatch has been in
formed of the following additional
assignments OF naval militiamen:
John +. Cunningham and Charles
Holland, of Rock Island. ordinary
seamen, to the monitor Terror, and
f. Blomberg, of Moline, landsman. to
the cruiser San Francisco.
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