Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-12
Company B Men
toBe Honor Guests
Of Seventy Former Members.
Sixty-sir NoU Hold Army
Commissions
Commissions.

or the seventy men who mado up
Company g, Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, before the declaration of war.
siSty-slx have earned commissions and
are, now serving with the colors. At
tie present time many of them are on
furloush and arc in Richmond.
III honor OF these men who have won
their Spurs. Company j. Richmond
Light Infantry Blues Battalion. Vir-
sinta State Volunteers, the new or
Caniza;ion which has succeeded the
Command now in Federal service. will
tonight be hosi az an informal reccp.
ton and entertainment 81 the Blues
Armory.
Governor Stuart has been invited to
attend. and each OF the new officers
IS expected 20 be present with members
o. his family and friends.
The former Company IS men now en-
TITLED 10 wear shoulder straps are as
follows:
Captain Richard NJ. Bidsood. Captain
Daniel l.. Couibourn, Captain Edmund
NJ C-uup, Captain Louis A. Heindl.
Captain Joseph NJ. Hurt. Jr.. Captain
Matthew +. James. Captain John c.
Pennypacker. Captain Paul p. Shafer,
Captain Corydon II. Sutton. Jr.. Cap
tain Gcrvas S. Taylor, Captain Joseph
CUISINE. Lieutenant Lucian T.. Bass.
Lieutenan; Charles Bigger. Lieutenant
kirk Eroa6dus. Lieutenant John s.
Cary Lieutenant Norman L. GAYS
naUSh. Lieutenant liam Chamberlayne.
Lieutenant Stanley u. Clarke. Lieatcn-
ant Clay Cole. Lieutenant; William c.
CoulbourH. Lieutenant John II. Cronley-,
Lieutenant shepherd Crunlp. Lieutenant
James NJ. cu-rin. Lieutenant Joseph
Cushman. Lieutenam; Eugene T. Dennis.
Lieutenan: James II Drake. Lieutenant
Richard Is. Easiey. Lieutenant Glare ..
Evans. Lieutenant Eober; L. Feather
stone, Lieutenant g. q. Garland, Lieu
tenant Conrad llutcheSon, Lieutenant
Fenton :. Jacobs. Lieutenant Cary
Johnston. Lieutenant Ca:esby APP. c.
Jones. Lieutenant William Catesby
Jones. Lieutenant James J. Jordan.
Lieutenant Benjamin W. La Prade.
Lieutenant David w. LeaTy. Jr.. Lieu
tenant. William Leonard. Lieutenant
William n. Lefew, Lieutenant John l..
Logan, Lieutenant Fergus McRee, Lieu
tenan, Wilson Meek. Lieutenant Ber-
nard MEREDITH. Lieutenant James A.
Miller. Lieutenant Leland J.. Miller.
Lieutenant Henry r. Miller, Jr.. Lieu
tenant Charles W. Morris. Lieutenant
James .. Patton. Jr.. Lieutenant Harry
Quarles Lieutenant Charles L. Robert
SON. Jr, Lieutenant J.. ". Sample.
Lieutenant William! Is. saunders, Lieu =
tenant James W. Sharp. Lieut=man; Ben
Smith. Lieutenant; Herbert T. sutton.
Lieutenant James Tinsley. Lieutenant
II. S. Valentine, Lieutenant: David NJ.
Waddey. Lieutenant Joseph T. Waddill.
Lieutenant Stanley l.. watkins. Lieu
tenaItiiWiiiiam c. Whitner. Lieutenant
-. u. Wright. Lieutenant Joseph L.
Young.
Each Of these men will receive from
Captain II. Carl Boschcn as command
ing officer of the new Company r. n
copy OF the following tribute. which
also bears tho names of all tic officers;
ITO recording with pride how
lie has Girni!ied himself and upheld
the ho"orab!c record of his old
company o. stepping :nto the front
r.,u'. III defense OF ,ountry. civi!iZa
ion and liberty against an inipIous
tIl barharous cns:n%. we present
,h!, tribute, which embodics the
names OF Company p men now
holding commissions.
In o." heart o. hearts believing
Victory crowns the ;;st
600. i. y. l.. |. Il. BATTALION.
Virginia state Volunteers