The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-14
BEAUMONT BOYS
BACK FROM WARS.
TEXAS MILITIA RETURNS FROM
RECENT MANouvERs AT
MANASSAS, va.
LOCAL YOUTHS HAD A GOOD TINE
Tired, Dusty, Dirty, Worn out and
Weary They Reach Home and
are Mighty Glad to Get
Back.

Tired and dusty. worn aud weary
rough, soilcd aud unshaven but with
the houyancy of youth, spirits ana
hilarlty stamped on their counlc'
nanccs the Beaumont contlgcnt OF
the Texas militia which has been
playing war at Mana sas, Va, returned
TO their home last evening. II was
quite like the home coming OF real
warriors who had been away battling
with a genuine enemy, for n good
sized knot of relatives and friends
greeted them at the depot as their
sombre special pulled in over the
Southern Pacific at o'clock last
night. The greetings were just as
joyous, just as demonsTatiye anu
Just as heartfelt as they would have
been had the boys been spending the
past few weeks fighting with real bull
lets against actual armies.
What They Learned.
"Well, learned to obey orders
anyway, If | did get crawled all over
by regular army major"
81 learned to eat whenever they'll
feed you. if they don't offer you any
thing but hardtack.'
81 learned to keep my eye on all
my property and steal everything OF
everybody ele's | could
81 learned enough not ever to go
on another encampment.'
81 learned how much a man can
sweat CARRYING forty-fve pounds OF
blankets and equipment
II learned how 10 sneak out OF
ranks into an orchard and 5Wipe
fruit"
How Boys Feel.
These, and many, mar" other en-
pressions of a similar character tell
how the boys feel otter their trip.
They are in a frame of mind IL
weep over their harlships, laugh Over
their jokes, curse over their oppres-
sions and sum the whole thing mp
bv Shaping their thighs and declar-
ing that they had the doggondcst
crackinest good time they ever had
in their lives. They sweat and fun
ed and painted and almost cried a.
times and spent many hours in mis-
erv but their pleasures more man
counterbaIanced everything else ana
they are glad they went. They arc
glad 10 get home, TOO.
The boys from this city who par
ticipated in the recent manouTerS
and who returned nome last night
To,
Levi and Hal Trbv Greer: COrforalS
7. C Now. Ed Linn and +. p. Svnoll {;
Privates w. w. White. Gather ZONES
II. B Oxford. J. O. Shook, J. Rock
and Rodney Wakefield. The follow
ing we're assigned as DrivateS in the
Houston Light Guards: Jirou. IoY',
Greer. Now. Linn. White. Jones. TN"
remainder were privatcs in the Jas
ner company. Roth thcs" compa-
MES wore members of the First Reg
iment OF Texas.
What Texas hid
Arriving at Manassas the Texas
regiments were assigned to position"
in the mimic armies, the second 60
ing with the Browns" under General
Bell and the First with the Blues
under General Grant The First was
in the Third Brigade, under com
mand of Col. ID. Price, Sixteenth L..
S. Infantry. An interesting feature
of the Beaumont boys snare in the
fighting was that the Jasper com
panv. of which Oxford was mem
her was the advance guaru of the
entire Blue army when It was on the
march and Oxford, ReamonJ's phi
vate marched at the head g. the ad-
vance guard. This, in reality. mad"
him the leader Of the Blue army in
all it's manouVers.
The First Texas regiment paruci-
mated in the capture of Thorough
fare Gap and in the heavy fighting al
the old stone bridge at Bull Run.
In the fighting at the Bridge the
Tsvas bows were worsted. being COM
pclled TO retreat in rapid o~Ger. AZ
fer the manouvCror the bows were
taken to Washington, where ihel
were turned loose for couple 81
dave TO see the sights of the National
CapitaI. Sunday evening they left
for horne. The First regiment passed.
Though Beaumont i'm three sections
last night. The Second Regiment
came nome by the northern route.