Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-28

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yether in the same battalions during the
whole period of their service, first in the
regular army and afterwards in The land |
wehr. The whole country is edinto
districts. Each district provides the re-
;ruits for its corresponding line regiment,
md receives them again when they pass
INTO the reserve; and this district is again |
subdivided into smaller divisions for each |
battalion, and still smaller ones, called
circles, for each company. Each two
districts are represented by line regiment |
of three batta1ions and a landwehr one of
two battalions When the soldier has |
finished his seven years in the ranks and
reserve of the regular army, he passes,
with his comrades of the same year, into
the landwehr regiment of his district, and
completes his service in it. Re-engage-
ments, except for commissioned Off
GERS are not encouraged. The districts
are so distributed with regard TO popula-
ton that each two of them, belonging to
oneregiment, will supply INSTRUMENTATION
required on the breaking out of war both
by its own regiment and the Guards and
other special branches of the army, the
reserves of which are also contained with
in its limits in the same way as its line
reserve, and are equally under the charge
of its administrative directors, the land
wehr staff. -.... 10 r.
As before explained, when war breaks
out the strength of the regular arm is at
once doubled by recalling 500 men from
the reserve to each battalion, which is
only 500 strong on the peace establish
ment; and each man SO recalled returns
not merely to the same regiment and bat
talon, but even to the same company,
in which he had been previously trained
for three years, and from which he had
been not more than three years absent
The landwehr are at the same time called
out, and undertake the whole reserve du-
ties of garrisoning the fortresses and keep
ing up the communications, thus at once
liberating the whole regular troops for
service in the field.
The strength of the North German army
will be as follows: f
Regular army actually in the ranks 100000
Reserve to regular army............. $50, 900
Landwehr.. $4,000
Total ,020, 900
ORGANIZATION OF THE FRENCH ARMY.
The population of France amounts to
about 81, 100000. The number of re-
cruits proposed to be annually raised by
CONSUMPTION is 100000. These are di-
vided into two portions: % The first
portion, amounting to 10000 Gncluding
1000 for the navy, are drafted at once
into the ranks, where they serve for five
years; they then pass for four years into
the second Reserve. After this nine years
service they are finally discharged 90
The second portion, or so, 900 remaining,
constitute the first Reserve. They are
sent back to their homes, and remain en-
rolled in the reserve for nine years. Dur
ing the first five years they are the first
to be called out, in case of war, to rein
force the ranks of the regular army. They
are drilled for five months during the first
two years. After nine years they are
discharged. The French conscripts join
when about twenty-one years of age. AL
the young men of the military age who in
each year are not drawn as recruits are
enrolled In the Garde Rationale Mobile.
They remain at their homes, and are to
receive not more than fifteen drills in
each year, and no drill is to take them
from their homes more than one night.
Their instruction will be therefore entiress
ly in company drill. They remain for
five years in this service, and then dis
missed. During war they are designed
to garrison the fortresses and perform the
other duties falling on the landwehr in
Prussia.
There is no local connection existing in
the French service between the line regi
ments and either the LIST Reserves or the
Garde Rationale Mobile. The men of
the ID Reserve, howeyer-that is, those
who have already passed five years in the
army-if called upon to serve again, re-
turn to the ranks of their old regiments.
Every encouragement is given to non
commissioned officers and desirable SOL
diers to Ie-engage for a second term OF
five years, but no further Encouragement
is permitted, the Minister for War being
of opinion that after ten years service
that is, by thirty-one years of age-the
prime of a soldiers life is past. Men who
re-epgage receive Id. a day additional
nav, and there is reserved for them (and
this is the great inducement held OUT
one-third Of the minor appointments in
the public offices, the whole of those in
the War Office, the gendarmerie, and a
certain proportion of railway posts. 1t
is expected that 10000 will re-engage in
each year, and that nearly that number of
posts will be annually available to give
away. -.
When war breaks out, and the army
has to be increased, the regiments are
raised TO the war establishment by calling
/ in the number required from the lst Re
serve-that is, from those men who have
been drawn for the CONSUMPTION, but who
have not actually been called out.
they win come into the ranks
/ almost as raw recruits, having
only received a few months pre-
vious drill. Should their numbers not