Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-06
SECOND REGIMENT WILL
ENTItAIN THIS AFTERNOON

Sf.to Nj REGIMENT WILL
ENTtAIN THIS AFTERNOON
The Second Regiment Will begin
movement this afternoon at O'Clock
Tie Second Battalion. commanded hy
Major Benjamin r. Harrison, will pro-
coed on the first section. The First
Battalion. Major Leech commanding
will travel on the second section. and
the Third Battalion and the rcgimental
headquarters staff will travel on the
third section, which will be under the
personal command OF Colonel Robert
+. I.cedy.
The First Regiment Will be moved
over the Seahoard Air Line. and Will
travel via Atlanta. Montgomery and
New Orleans. TO Brownsville. The
Second Regiment will be moved over
the Southern Railway, travelling via
Birmingham, Shreveport, Dallas and
Houston 10 Brownsville The journey
may take from three 10 five days. and
In view OF the delay that may be in
Cured. Major Ailcn Potts camp quar-
tcr:naster. issued ten days rations,
which VIII care for the troops Ell route
and give them sustenance for the first
:ew days in camp on the border.
colonel Charles II. Consolvo. pay
master will issue 81 cents day TO
c"ery man sent forward. the money to
NJ used for the purchase of liquid
coffee.
Brigade headquarters was under or
ders TO be ready 10 move the militia
men 10 FL Paso. san Antonio or
Brownsville. and four routes were
mapped out by the War Department.
The First Regiment will run upon
Route g. passing through Atlanta. and
the Second Regiment will be operated
over Route 1. going through BirminG
ham. The Firs, Regiment will be
transported in forty eight cars. six
teen to a section, and the Second Regi-
ment will he moved in fifty-one cars,
seventeen to n section.
TROOPS WILL GO ABOARD
IN r.. r. & T.. YARDS
Entrainment will lie in the yards of
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po
tomac Railroad. next to the Fair
Grounds. So far as possible. farcwells
will he forbidden at the time of en-
trainmcnt Movement will be made
early in the morning, in case of the
First Regiment TO avoid sorrowful
parting. The Second Regiment cannot
he moved before the afternoon, and the
hour was set at o'clock so that there
might be a smaller lingering of those
who come for the last kiss and the
iinal word.
News that the movement forward
was finally to begin Travelled fast
through camp and city. More than
5000 people visited the concentration
point in the afternoon to bid their last
adicus. More than a thousand men
spent the afternoon in writing home
from the " NJ c. A. building Blue
comac nibbled their pens while they
were trying to gather their thoughts
to cheer the mother at home, and
sturdy mountaineers from the South
west chewed their pencils rs they
wrestled with faint idea All through
the afternoon mothers and fathers
travelled from tent to tent to say good
by. Many of them had come from the
far borders of the State. Mothers
hugged sons upon whose cheeks
razor had never been drawn. and
fathers. forgetting their former stern
ness. ran through the boys curIs drop
ping on the neck.
The whole camp was solemn. A young
mountaineer who had never left his
hills before collapsed in his mothers
arms. Another who had spent his life
on the water broke down when his
sweetheart came for her farewell. But
both gathered themselves together and
managed to smile through their tears
FIELD HOSPITAL CORPS
REMAINS A WHILE LONGER
When the troops movo out to-day
the whole inner field Will be deserted.
The Field Hospital Corps. Captain
Borland commanding. will remain on
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