The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-14
NO PLACE F0R ANY MORE
the WASHINGTON COMPANY DROPS OUT
Ms Plaza will be Taken BY Capt Cooper
Company Of 'Aurphey AOuntaineess'-
The Lenoir Company will Have
One Hundred Men,

Une hun0fea Wsn'
The Second regiment will not set It's
fuu COMPLEMENT Of companies into camp
today, as was expected
On account of the failure of the tents
TO arrive. as was expected, and because
of the lack of further Recommendations
at the Fair grounds. Captain Gresham,
the mastering officer. advised the All
infant General not 10 order any more
companies here for the present.
In accordance with this request the
Murphy and Lenoir companies We're or
dered to wait until next Tuesday before
starting TO Raleigh. 1t is hoped by that
time not only the tents viii be here, but
also the necessary guns. uniforms and
other equipments.
Part of the Lenoir company will ar
rive this afternoon-forty men from
Burke county. under First Lieutenant
Avery. The rest of the company sixty
men from Caldwell. under Captain
Jones. will arrive Tuesday ut the same
time that Captain Cooper with the Muir
ply company gets here. Lieutenant
Avery telegraDhed that. his men Were
ready and about to take the train when
the order not to come arrived: he said
they preferred TO come on and do the
best they could here in the way of
quarters, rather than wait until next
week.
The companies of the Second regi-
ment that came here without the full
number of men are now seeing the error
of their way.
They find that it is not easy to get
recruits here, in fact it is almost int
possible, and none of those companies
that came here with less than so mon
have yet recruited up.
For two days the Wilmington COM
pany has been within two men of the
mark, and it still lacks those two men.
The Oxford company has sent officers
into all sections of the State to secure
recruits. and has almost got the requir-
ed number, but still it is incomplete and
can't be either examined or mustered in.
The Greenville company also is out for
recruits wherever it can find them. and
the examining surgeons have played
havoc with the ninety men originally in
the Tarboro company Out of that num-
Der twenty-Six men were rejected. and
now Captain Gotten wants twenty new
recruits.
Captain Foreman and Lieutenant
Jones, of the Washington company. have
given uD in despair Late yesterday AZ
ternoon they dropped out with twenty
FIVE men. and will today return home,
having failed TO recruit Some of the
men. after disbandaent. enlisted in the
Burlington company. Captain C0oper's
company of Murphy takes the place OF
the Washington company. with 100 men.
The Nantahala and Tarboro companies
were yesterday examined and last night
mustered in. Very few Of Captain Glib
sons 112 men were dropped out, and II
was through his excess and additions
from the Washington company that
Captain Holt was enabled to fill uu the
Burlington company. 1t is probable.
also, that some of the Washington com
pany's men will go to the Tarboro com
pany.
Whether they do or not, General
Cowles expects enough excess men from
the Lenoir and burlington companies TO
fill out all shortages in the regiment.
Both companies viii bring 100 men.
Captain Cooper, of the Murphy com
pany, telegraphed yesterday saying
that he was deluged with APPLICATIONS.
and wantinpg to know how many men
he could bring General CowIes wired
him to bring 100. and. if possible, re-
crllits for other companies
The ranking captain of the Second
regiment is Captain Smith. of the Green
vile company. His commission dates
seven days ahead of that of Capt. Cobb,
of the Lumber Bridge company.
The companies of this regiment. ac-
cording to the rank, are as follows
Company A, Greenville, j. Il. Smith,
captain, (Oct. 5, 81.
Company Il, Lumber Bridge, s. J.
Cobb, captain, (Oct. II. 92).
Company c, Oxford. III. T.. Skinner,
captain, (Oct. IA. 96).
Company ID, Wilmington. Donald Nc
Rae, captain. Dec. II, 96).
Company II, Tarboro. John w. Gotten,
captain, March 81, '97.
Company #, Greensboro, Percy Gray.
captain.
Company G, Burlington, James III.
Holt captain.
Company III, Nantahala, J. L. Gibson,
captain.
Company /, Rutherfordton, w. T. r..
Bell, captain.
Company X, Gastonia, r. L. Durham,
captain.
Company l., Lenoir, Edmund Jones,
captain.
Company NJ, Murphy, j. w. Cooper,
captain.
In this. as in the First regiment. there
are go officers, 36 commissioned officers
and ii field officers.
CAMP NOTES.