Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-13
ORDER V|RG|N|ANS
|. TO CAMP LEE FOR
MUSTER CEREMONY
Remainder of 116th Infan-
try Will Go to Canton
ments Near Homes.
HOME FOLKS ARRANGING
FOR R0USING WELCOME
Suitable Program Prepared to
Receive Men Who Drove
Out the Hun.
SERVED IN THE FRONT LINE
Won Cnstinted Praise From Com.
mander PcrshinS for Gallant
Service Around irgonnc.
HOME FOLKS ARRANGING
FOR ROUSING WELCOME
SERVED IN THE FRONT LINE
Won Cpstintcd Praise From Com
mander PcrsiinS for Gallant
Service Around Argonnc.

somewhere on tho Atlantic The
transport Matsona is hurryine home
ward with the boys of the One Hun
urea and Sixteenth Infantry. in which
are included the men who made up the
Richmond Grays Battalion under the
command Of Major William A. Stack.
The War Department announced ycs.
terday that the unit sailed from ST.
.\aZaire on May 10. and is scheduled
60 arrive IN Newport News on May -.
IN the regiment arc siHty-fivc officers
ana "lP6 men. OF which thirty-six Of
hcers and l.il6 men. former members
National Guard Regiments, are from
virginia All these will be sent TO
lamp am Lee for demobilization, while the
rest viii be scattered about in canton
ments near their homes
Celebration Is PInnncd
Back from the greatest Of All. .bat,lc
neids' bringing with them the praise OF
yneir with Hf o%n eh'eds and those of the allies
;i run eastward To the Rhine, the boys
Viii WI md waiting FOR them such rous-
,nS weicomc as the city is capable OF
giving her returning heroes
II is not probabln that the men wiIl
senaih IN camp for more than a few
aaHs eaj iaiter reaching again their home
tecs nave been AT work prcparInc !,
suitable program for receiving them,
smu .'in, ian smowdne ,M - Iunmistakably the appre-
IN the cause for which America fought.
Served on Mexican Border.
When tho war came the boys of he
Grays Battalion were not noyices -,
me. me duties ,nd OF the soldier. Mouths be-
on thc Mexican border Here they re-
frave1 irs, me preliminary training that
brn,,d ibrans,ormsd them into the hard.
when the most urgent of ali calls came
TOT every man TO do his bit
Inc nGnsh IN 1uin the ,i1 Ggnys entered the first
Snn, sne,r hrst tour Of real action until
Septem Der ~, IL was in the Eatefui
less guns m ioIf Of ,Gs when when the remorss am
out me doom OF Germany in and
around the .Argonne Forest, that thev
rsiIoh rsirtoTmed Tn the gallant service which
General Pershing and the French
corps commander.
EfShty-Two DnyS on Line.
though the Twenty-nnth Division.
eiGhty-two days Of active line serVice
Win twenty-threc Of them on an actiys
This T.o'; IL suffered casualties of S,4Io.
.nhsSnting in winch they partisipateI. par .neansi
The Grays' Battalion as an infant,,.
o"tit. s,,d suffered perhaps more than their
"a" 60 Mect Returning Troops.
WIN the news that the boys are
sent out last night for the Won,an's
AuNiiiary OF the Grays Association TO
meet ~ the Grays' Armory tomorrow,
afternoon AT 3:30 10 discuss plans fn.
,hhe reception and 10 arrange to have
.ne boys met at Newport News when
their ship lands. ""en
Not only arc the members OF ,he
a,ssociation asked to attend this meet
NE, nut the mothers, wives, sweet
hcartS sisters and all others interesteI
III the boys welfare ana proper Wei
so,ne hack from the front. 1t was an
houhced also that the organization will
Inc Grays; but viii remain intact TO
carry on the work OF securing Jobs for
me me poys and doing anything else thev
can IN their interest