Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-22
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ON THE BORDER
Company G Find Close Dis
cipline in Camp at
Brownsville
BOYS PLACED ON DUTY
Soldiers Furnished Abundance of
Everything Necessary For Their
Camp Life

Discipline-discipline between man
and man, private and corporal, non-
com and officer and officer and staff
discipline That is the watchword
of the army, an it was the message
given the First Virginia regiment by
it's chaplain, Captain Hall, at church
call last Sunday according to cor
!! respondent of the Richmond Journal.
Church call came at o'clock and
the early-rising routine of camp life
had not been relaxed. The men had
tubled out of bed for reveille at 5:45
fallen into ranks, with rifles and
sidearms strapped on, for inspection,
and gone through few minutes of
calesthenics. Then comes "fall out"
to return to quarters, dispose of arms
and wash hurriedly for Chow,
known at home as the breakfast bell.
Breakfast over, mess kits washed
and put away and bunk put in order
all this, you may have noticed, be-
fore 8 of Sunday morning. few
minutes only of leisure remained
Perhaps it was used to chasten ones
mind from little "cussing" dealt
out inwardly to a grouchy non-com;
perhaps for brief nap.
Promptly at s o'clock, then, each
company was lined up in regular for
nation in It's company street and
marched through, headquarters to
the chaplain's tent. Here they group
ed informally about stack of ;lum-
Der, from behind which Chaplain Hall
of Danville preached to them as
I from pulpit.
Attendance at the service was re-
quired of the whole company, regard
less of religious affiliations, or lack
of them. From the look on the faces
as they anne away and the slightly
sobered stride with which they stroll
ed back to their quarters, few of
them seemed to regret this brief OBJ
servance of the Sabbath. They are
men now, under military discipline,
but free from that more inviolable
restraint, family ana responsibility,
If they use their freedom they are
amenable also to, the sting of con-
science that an hour of religious de-
votion invoked
Several companies in the First
regiment have already had turns
at guard duty here at camp.
Last Sunday. Company G, better
known as the Alexandria Light In
fantry, mounted guard ats o'clok for
it's first 24-hour routine at this duty.
Virginias guardsmen are bearing
up splendidly under their heavy du-
ties and the torrid weather. The
first few days in camp saw success
sive downpours of rain that many
took to be the opening of Texas rainy
season. AS the rain came down out
of the sky, mud sticky as glue SEEM
ed to come up out of the; ground.
Company streets between the rows
of tents turned into sloughs, and drill
was practically impossible.
Our medical corps is taking care
of the few cases of illness or injury
that Inevitably appear among two
regiments of men of average health
projected into a new climat-
Bully-beef and, hard-tack days that
the men learned to know on the trair
coming down and exerienced a short
while afterward, seem to be ovel
now. Supplies from the regular
quartermasters depot are being is
sued, and real beef was, the chief ra
tion at dinner yesterday. Just as
sample of what the guardsmen eat
E the rest of the meal consisted o
\ loaf bread, fried onions, creamed po
q tatoes and coffee. Breakfast enrichet
: by crullers with molasses for sauce
Fruit pudding of prunes or drie'