Rockingham, July 18—Company E of Concord of the 120th Infantry, reached Rockingham at 11:30 this morning from Camp Glenn, and the company is now camped under the shade of two huge oaks within two blocks of the courthouse. The company consists of 85 men, three of whom are officers, these being Captain K.E. Caldwell, Lieutenant R.C. Hoover and Lieutenant C.N. Alston. All the men are well and in good spirits, despite the heat and the all night ride from Camp Glenn.
It was quite a surprise to Rockingham people to know that a military company was coming here, but the townspeople will accord them the hospitality for which they are noted. Even before the special train pulled in, a camp site had been selected and the best water in Carolina provided, with other conveniences. The town library is within a stone’s throw of the camp.
Rockingham is within six miles of Hamlet, where the Seaboard Air Line shopmen are on strike. It is presumed the soldiers were sent here to be handy should any disorder take place between the Hamlet strikers and imported workmen. It is understood that 28 mechanics and other workmen were brought to Marston on an early train this morning, and when the special carrying the soldiers passed the car containing the 28 workmen was attached and they were brought on to Hamlet.
Everything is quiet in Hamlet today so far as can be learned. It is understood the non-union workmen who arrived today will start to work in the Seaboard shops Wednesday morning.
From the front page of The Greensboro Daily News, July 19, 1922
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