West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-03-30
DOWN IN TIE SOUTH.
What Our soldier Boys Are Doing
in the Camp OF the 2nd Regiment
From our ,rmy orro,po dent.

Only seventeen mere DAYS and
then Camp Wethcrill ana the 2 al
Wesl Virginia Regiment will PISS
into history together.
We WI. be tho last Regiment
mustered out here. The 20Jr,i goes
ont TO morrow; the 2OIst New York
Will 90 ont VI ,rch 81: the ssh VI IS
s'tchus,tts. April 3rd; the Ash NV
jersey. April 8 ii. aud the 2nd
West Virginia, April IO.h.
The Paym ,ster will pay out
about $3.50, 600 here by the time all
the troops are mustered out. and
at least one half Of that amount
will be- spent in GreenyIlle for
clothing. trunks and other neces-
sary articles Of civil life, as well as
Tor corn whlskey at 90 cents a pint.
The corn whiskey the blind tigers
furnish the boys now would make
IL fellow fight his mother, or any
body else; It's almost like HYDRO
phobia.
We are IN quarantine now on
account OF measles, humps, and a
few cases OF something the sur
geons pronounce scIrlet fever. Bat
there Is no mistake about the
mumps aud measles, for several of
the officers, as we'll as enlisted men.
have them. Lieut.. Cochran, Of
"l," and Lieut.. Smith, Of .'F,"
were taken to the hospital yester.
day with measles. Our Regiment
has never been without several
cases of mumps sinca last July,
and at n time there were twenty.
two cases in the 2na Division Hos
pital, all from the 2nd West Va.
80 on Monday. General Randall
Issued an order putting as in
quarantine and forbidding any
man to go to Grtenville for any
purpose, and Col. Castesl put It i'm
execution by putting on 250 guards,
making 1T next to impossible to
run the guard lines" Now, we
all stay IN camp at night, and |
guess the vaudeville shows ami
dime museums dowa town will
have to shut up shop. One of them
came near having to close up any
how lasc week, for the bows sole
the show. but had to return it.
because they had no pllc1to keep it.
For a long time the first cry one
would hear on going into town was.
Come IN anl see Geo. Williams
the Turtle Boy; only ten cents"
One evening last week some of the
4th New Jersey boys crowded in.
and while the proprietor's b,ck
was turned. put Geo. Williams
the Turtle Boy" under an over.
coat and walked out. The show
quit business that evening in town.
while the Jersey boys exhibited
M. Williams in clmp. The very
next evening the West Va. bows
stole him, but failed to get out of
town with HIM.
Some time since John ID. Mat.
tice, "a private in the 203rd New
York Regiment, while on provost
guard, shot and killed IA member
of Co. ''B" of this Regiment and
,yerely wounded another member
of the slme Company. A court
martial cleared him of the charge
of manslaughter.
Since that time there has been
a great deal of bad blood between
the tou26 clement in the two Regi
ments. and whenever "a crowd of
West Va. boys ran into a crowd Of
203rd boys. any place since. there
has generally been trouble between
them, and the West Va. boys have
always had the best of it..
Last week Private Ward, Of Co.
OK" 2nd w. Va, while on pro-
vost guard, shot one of the New
Workers, so the feeling has grown
worse. Many Of the boys believe
that is the reason we are quarnn-
tined so close now, and that Gen.
Randall will turn us loose again as
soon as ho ctu get the 2O3rd bows
safe up in York State.
Governor Atkinson has made the
following promotions in cur Regi-
ment: First Lieut.. Kemble White,
Co. M" to be Captain same Co;
2nd Lieut.. John Henshaw. Co.
"M," to be LIST Lieut.. same Co.: 1st
Sergeant A. NJ. S. Morgan, Co.
"M," to be 2nd Lieut.. same Co.,
aud lst Sergeant Carleton C.Pierce,
Go. III" to be 1st Lieut. same Go.
DR.. Warner, OF Chenille, appointed
Asst. Surgeon TO succeed Lieut..
W. +. Daley, resigned, failed TO
Get mustered i'm on account Of
Regiment being under muster out
orders.
Gen. B. II. Oxley. Of Charleston,
is here now representing Horst
man q Co., Of Philadelphia. selling
uniforms, etc. The General has
been with the 2nd Army Corps
since last August. and has sold
more uniforms and military goods
Of all kinds than all the other
travelling men combined.
Upon muster out each man will
receive one months extra pay,
clothing allowance and travel pay.
This will give q private, on the
average, from 500 to $50, corporal