The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-08
DAY IN THE FIELD
Soldiers Complain Of Short Ra-
tons Battle at Midnight.
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ssS PRESS CAMP, GAINESVILLE, VA
September THE yirginians had an
other hard day and feel tonight that
they have more than earned the rest
they are having. They will be on the
hike again before this reaches The eye
of the reader. The army o { the browns
win move at midnight to attack the
blue army to which the seventieth Viz
glnia is attached. But In this case 1t
S the brown army. that will have to do
the hard marching. In the attack yes
5terday the blues had 81 to march twice
as far, being the alta king army.
The soldiers are complaining, and with
the best OF reason. apparently, that they
are not given sufficient TO cd. The IA
stions per man supplied to last from the
time they broke camp shortly after mid
night yesterday, was not equal TO two
sandwiches. This ipcluded' ground coffee.
which was boiled 4 in the tin cup carried
by each man. The result was that many.
men could not stand the severe march,.
ing. little sleeping Gust such as could
be caught in q few hours lying in the
&field) 8and frequent double quicking over
broken country. Some Of the regiments
OF the blue army were more than :decl-
mated by stragglers. V,
Haymarket Besieged. 3
Haymarket, a little village made fam
Gus during the war between the States
by reason OF the hard fighting that took
place around It, was over-run with. strag-
glers. When to-day's battle terminated
this afternoon, there We're fifteen hun
bred men, chiefly blues.93ln possession
of the village, crowding the yards, the
stores and the depot: for they were
bound to camp by way of the railway.
When the train came shortly before
O. clock, four cars were filled In less than
that many minutes, nd q thousand SOL
1icrs were struggling to get a aboard w hen
the train pulled out. the aisles were
damned, the platforms ard steps crowd
ed. so the tender carried about as many
pounds Of humanity as coal. and nine
men in blue and khaki were perched on
top OF the cars. And the thousand men
left went back into the village and tried
to buy food when there was no food to
BIO had Confederate soldiers never found
town with less food III 1t than was
after the soldiers had been
there an hour to-day.
II. AS went through the town this morn
Ing on my way to the portions Of the
line held by the Fourth Brigade. q mile
and half 10 the northwest, met Lieu
teIldU lcip VI ny II l'SSol.t w. ~
and fourteen! men. representing COM
panies A., p. G.. It and II. They de-
clared they would go no further or such
short rations
III didn't do 1t at Jacksonville md !
won't do 1t here. said Lieutenant Kinde-
water. and he and his companions vent
on towards the depot. do not know
sWhetnert they came by train or marched
back to camp gs9 N WI #
5l5I found the Fourth BRIGADE engaged
with a brown line ~ mile and a half
northwest Of Haymarket, Only about
half the regiment was present. lying
down beside a fence at the edge of a
corn field The regiment had just driven
i brown line through the corn and un-5
der cover of a battery OF machine Suns
tlhree-quarters Ola mile away In the de
srection8of Thorouehfare, a skirmish Inc
had been thrown out IN the corn fteld.
+The men seemed to he & ~ \ pretty good
spirits and grumhled little, though tired,
sleepy and hungry. 3 Is.
533:.''.I have not lost a man by struggling.
~ Sickness said Captain Cruigbill, OF
he l4ynchburg Company. 81
q Major Martin said he Old not thln1k
s:he First Battalion had lost any. Y
s5 The mon have stood up TO heir work
we'll, In the main. The blue army will
ibe all right Tomorrow night and the
brown Will he grumbling. for he brown
lis about to have to do what the blue
have done An army officer. who has
been on tbs mar oelYer fields for sew
eral weeks, said to-day he had found
that the people generally wanted General
lipant to he defeated by General Bell,