Hickory People Saw
Troops Land
Those Hickory people who left here last week for Charleston
and Columbia are back home after having seen the local members of the 105th
engineers land at Charleston and having been with them at Camp Jackson where
they will be demobilized the latter part of this week, probably Friday. The
Hickory people had a good view from the docks at Charleston and saw the
Zeelandia come sweeping into the harbor, greeted the boys for a couple of hours
in the city and hastened to Columbia, where they again saw them. Mrs. Geo. L.
Lyerly was the only member of the party who remained.
The Hickory boys were looking good, considering the 14 days
they spent on the water. Forty of them will be assigned for the parade in
Winston-Salem tomorrow, but the regiment will not be demobilized until these
five squads are back at camp. The local soldiers may come home in a body late
Friday or early Saturday. A telegram from Sergt. Joe Reinhardt to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Reinhardt, said the men would be discharged at Winston-Salem
and would reach Hickory on Thursday.
Those who went to Charleston were Mr. and Mrs. J.H.P.
Cilley, Mrs. H.C. Menzies, Messrs. Eubert and Walker Lyerly, Mrs. Lawrence
Cline and Mrs. Geo. L. Lyerly.
Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, commander of the regiment, again
spoke in warmest praise of the officers and men. They were ready for anything
and this offer was confident a better regiment never wore Uncle Sam’s uniform.
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