The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-12
OFF FOR THE BORDER.
SECOND INFANTRY AND THREE
INDEPENDENT UNITS LEAVE
STYX TO-DAY.
Regular Army Officer Will Succeed to
+ Lieut.. COlOnelcy-Mcn Asking Dis
charges Will be Left Behind
Sick Sent to Fort MOultrie.


ficers and the 972 enlisted men of the
Second regiment, will be rolling to-
ward the Mexican border early tomor-
row afternoon on three special trains
over the Seaboard Air Line. A fourth
tain will bear the cavalry troop, the
engineer company and the field hos
pital. The first troop train will leave
tomorrow morning at O'clock. The
destination is Fort Bliss, Ell Paso,
Texas.
I'VE are ready and the men have
been ordered into shelter tents for the
night" said Col. Springs ,...:, after
noon at 6 o'clock.
The four troop trains will not stop
in Columbia, except to change engines
near the Olympia mills. This will
cause a stop of about five minutes.
The trains will not come to the Sea-
board station.
1T Is all set and the powder is dry"
said r. B. Pegram, representative Of
the American Railway association,
detailed to handle the movement Of
the troops.
The tents Of the Second regiment
were struck this morning and had
been loaded in the box cars before 8
o'clock this afternoon. The men slept
in dog tents.
The troop trains will be made up as
follows:
First troop train, leaves at 9 o'clock |;
three fiat cars, one box car, one bag
gage car, nine Pullman cars; carries
II officers and 319 men Of the Third
battalion, under command of Maj. j.
w. Bradford.
Second troop train, leaves at 10:3O
O'clock; three fiat cars, one box car.
one baggage car, seven tourist cars
an done Pullman car; carries IA off,
GERS and $50 men of the Second bat
talon, in command OF Maj. T. M.
Marchant.
Third troop train, leaves at IL
O'Clock, two fiat cars, one box car,
eight tourist cars, one baggage car,
one Pullman car; carries 1S officers
and 31S men, under command Of Col.
H. B. Springs
/ Fourth troop train, leaves at 1870
O'Clock, one box car. one baggage car.
five tourist cars, one Pullman car;
carries Charleston Light Dragons,
Engineer company and field hospital
company. under command of Maj. A.
Moultrie Brailsford.
Thirty-five men of the Second regi-
ment, who applied for discharge, un-
der the dependent relative ruling by
the war department, will not go for
ward to the Mexican border. Col.
Springs wired the war department
asking that the men be left at Camp
Moore until mustered out of the SER
vice. His request was granted. This
will save, 1t is estimated, about $4,000,
the cost of transporting the men to
and from Ell Paso.
Col. Springs announced today that
an officer of the regular army would
be appointed lieutenant colonel of the
Second regiment: Five names have
been suggested and the officer most
available for the duty will be appoint
ed to the place.
Capt. Henry T. Thompson of the
Darlington Guards. Company E, who
has been i'll in Columbia for the last
six weeks. will not be we'll enough to
leave with his regiment today. Col.
Springs has extended his furlough for
two weeks and before the end of that
time Capt. Thompson expects to join
his company at Ell Paso.
Four privates who have been sick
In the hospital at Camp Moore have
been sent to Fort Moultrie, Charles
ton. by Maj. F. Schmitter, camp sur
geon. Maj. Schmitter will return in
a few days to the government barracks
at Columbus, Ohio. Jack Suess SER
geant, medical department, will go to
Fort Caswell. North Carolina. Pri-
Yates Angus Mcdonald, Jr., and Will
liam LeBeau of the medical depart
ment, United States army. will go to
Madison barracks, New York. Capt.
j. Malcolm Graham, assistant muster
ing officer, will very probably return
to Columbia. He is the regular in
spectOr-instructor Of the National
Guard of this State.