Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-05
THEFoURTHTIRGINIA
GETTING IN SHAPE FOR THE
MUSTER OUT.
THE FIRST DRESS PARADE.
No Allowance for Rafions and
CiOthes-A OVERWHELMINGLY a
Salvage Corps-Close CaII-In Hos
pitai In Cuba.
(Correspondence Of the pIspatchl

CAMP ONWARD, SAVANNAH, GA,
April S.-The officers of the Fourth vir-
ginia. with company clerks, quartermas-
tiers, ana other assistants, are now doing
the hardest work OF their service, pre-
pairing for muster out
To-day haversacks, knapsacks, and cam
teens were handed in by the men, and
rifles and side-arms will be turned in
within few days. Five days previous
10 final muster out the regiment Will
cease to draw rations from tho commits
sary, and the men will be fed by contract,
as the troops were at Camp Lee just
after entering the service.
Preliminary examination TO muster out
of service was held to-day, each man
certifying to the condition of his health
stating whether or not he bore any
wound, injury, or disease received In the
service of the government. only a few
of the members of Companies II and M
recorded any disability, and consequently
applications from the Blues for pensions
are not likely 10 cause the government
much concern.
The exact day for final muster out has
Captain {. @. Morton. of the Sixth In
fantry, who is chief mastering officer
for the troops around Savannah, that it
would be some time between the 18th and
S0th of April.
Those who have been making arrange
ments In their pockets TO receive the al
lowances for rations and clothes in the
TWO months extra pay are doomed to
disappointment, for none of the regiments
are TO receive more than the salary.
There are now ten officers of the regu-
lar army Under Captain Morton engaged
IN the work of mastering out the six
regiments OF volunteers waiting around
Savannah TO be transformed from war
riors into civilians. Two mastering Off
GERS are detailed TO each regiment. First
Lieutenant Il. f. Harris, OF the Third
Artillery, has been assigned to the
Fourth Virginia. and he VIII be assisted
by one Of the officers who have been or
dered to report here.
This afternoon the Virglnians gave their
first dress parade since breaking camp in
Cuba. A large number of the fair ad-
mirers of the Virginia soldiers came out
from Savannah and appIauded the pass
ing lines of troops.
To-day the soldiers demonstrated how
advantageous II would be TO put the fire
department OF our towns I'm the hands of
the military. A fine dwelling, on Dale
avenue. suddenly caught fire, and before
the inmates knew that there was a fire
a large number of the men from the
Fourth Virginia, Second Louisiana, and
First North Carolina were IN the house
moving the furniture. There were soon
about five hundred on hand. and i'm two
minutes the men had lined up, and under
the direction OF officers. passed out every
thing from a teaspoon to the plano. Their
method was odd. AS no water was near
II was seen that there was no hope of
smothering the fire. and so the men re-
solved TO move the house from the fire
which was done to the extent of taking
away windows, doors, blinds, faclngs
mantels, fronts, etc, in the midst of
flames and smoke. one of the men, a
North Carolinian, happened to get shut
in an attic room and was discovered by
the merest chance. a soldier taking il into
his head TO save the windows climbing
up on a ladder and finding the Tafhee
suffocating on the floor. lie revived, how
ever. after being brought into the fresh
air.
The organization OF the Bar Association
OF the United States Volunteers has been
completed. The qualifications for mem
bershsp are that the applicant must have
been a soldier or sailor OF the United
States during the Spanish-American war
OF honorable military or naval record.
or civilian employee OF the military or
naval departments during this war. and
must also be q member OF the bar The
organization was begun at the headquar-
tiers OF the Second Brigade. Second Divis-
Ion. seventh Army Corps. The object is
20 render each other such social and pro-
fessional assistance as opportunities may
ofter. The following officers were elected:
Commander, Captain j. II. Bloom, asss-
tant adjuiant-general, Second Brigade.
Second Division.
Lieutenant-Co Major s. E.
Clapr. Foriy-ninth Iowa.
AdJutant-Iieutenant, II. +. L. Watkins
Fourth Virginia.
The members OF the Blues were sur
prised this morning by the appearance
In their camp OF one OF the old members. |
Corporal Clarence Thomas, who received
his discharge last December. Just previous |
10 the departure OF tho Fourth Virginia |
Tor Cuba. He Is stopping at the De Soto. |,
The following members OF the Fourth |
Virginia remain at the Second Division |
Hospital In Cuba. awaiting sufficient inn |
provement In their condition TO admit OF |
heir transportation on the hospital ship |
% Savannah: Private j. J.. Rennolds. of |
company l.; Corporal j. A. Morris. OF |
r.: Privafes q. NJ. Ryan and ID. |
= Harris. Of Company ~ Privates r. l..
Hewitt. II. n. Harris. n. o. Fisk. and {.
R. Dean, OF Company 1: Sergeant X. c.
scott and PTivates Robert Walker and |