Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-09
GREETING FROM SHIP,
Argus Company A Correspondent
Remembers His Paper
to the Last.
SUPPOSED THEY SAILED LAST NIGHT

ments to Santiago, Which Will BE
Followed by the Deepest Interest in
Rock Island-The Sixth Favored
Regiment.
Charleston. s. c., July $50 the
Rock ISLAND ARGUS: On board the
Columbia; Company A on the Yale.
Good bye to all. RosEY.
Today's Associated Press dispatches
elsewhere tell of the sailing of the
Yale and Columbia this afternoon.
According to these greetings it may
be inferred that Company A. of Rock
Island. has set sail from Charleston
for Santiago to reinforce Gen.
Shafter. A dispatch from Camp
Alger last night contained the follow
ing: Information received here in
dicates that 800 men. composing a
regiment and a battalion of Gen. Gar
retson's brigade, left Charleston,
5. c., today for Santiago on the
cruisers Yale and Columbia. Two
regiments of Garretson's brigade, the
9Th Illinois and the 9th Massachu-
sets, are at Charleston, and the I'M
Outstanding here is that those who
left today are the Massachusetts regi-
ment and one battalion of the 9th
Illinois. Gen Garretson telegraphed
the war department that he would
like to have the Grand Duchess sent
from Norfolk to Charleston to ac-
commodate the 800 men remaining.
The slight delay experienced in start
ing for Santiago was because of the
inability to procure the necessary IA
tions promptly. Garretson's brigade
was under orders to start with 500
rounds of ammunition to each man"
Serious Realization Comes.
With the departure of the boys from
Charleston comes the serious realiza-
ton to relatives and friends in Rock
Island that their service TO the coun-
try is at last to be an actually.
While from their departure from
Rock Island in the latter part OF
April. their every movement has been
attended with anxiety on the part OF
those at home, yet all along despite
the ambition on the part of the SOL
diers themselves to get into the thick
of the fight. there has been, neverthe-
less. an abiding feeling in the heart,
of those at home, that perhaps the
worst would not come. This spirit
cannot be misunderstood. Il is not
seltishness, it is not undue fondness
for our own. Patriotism is th.
strongest and purest where il tugs al
the heart strings. The mother who
gives her son TO the nation with The
prayer that he may be safely returned
to her, does not begrudge the sacri.
| fee, nor does she ask that he shall no,
share in the perils that others have
undergone if necessary that
honor may come to his countrv's flag.
1t is source of comfort to know tina,
the pang of parting cannot lessen the
pride that Rock Island feels at this
time. In the stern appreciation Of
what war means in sacrifice, the city's
pride in her soldier boys is heightened
and stout hearts at home will be with
those at the front, while prayers for
the protection and safety of loved
ones will attend them until, glory
crowned, they come back again.
Rosey's Regular.
Scranton, S. c.. Enroute to Charles
ton. July 6.-We will arrive il
Charleston about IL O'Clock tonight,
and will embark at once for Cuba.
The boys are all writing their last
letter home for a day or two.
This is very funny country. At
the depots this sign is seen: "Fol
Colored People Only and then
again: "For White People Only"
This has been very tiresome ride
as the coaches are very inferior, but
the order came so soon it was the
best we could get. 1t has been rain
ing ever since we left Dunn Loring
so there is not much dust to bother
us.
On this section we have the head
quarters which includes the colonel,
lieutenant colonel and Mai. Channon
No one is sick so far, but all fee
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