The age-herald., 1898-06-07
COL. H. H. SARGENT OF THE ''IMMUNEC" Vas in the City En Route to Columbus,
 Miss. TO MOBILIZE HIS REGIMENT Mill Be Raised In Alabama and Mis-
 SiSSippi.
THREE COMPANIES FROM THIS CITY
To Be Given Places-WilI Be Allowed to Elect Their Officers Subject to Physical and Professional Examination Work
 to Begin At Once.

Colonel H. H. Sargent of the Fifth h. fantry, United States Volunteers, accom- panied by his wife, arrived in the city from Washington on Sunday. en route to Colum- bus, Miss, where he had been ordered by the war department. Colonel and Mrs. Sargent remained in the city until yester- day at noon and were quartered at the Morris hotel.
 Colonel Sargent was appointed by the president on the recommendation of the war department to command the immune regiment of volunteers which is to be raised under special act of congress providing for ten regiments of imln mes One rtsi- ment is to be raised from Alabama and Mississippi consisting of six companies from each state.
 Colonel Sargent graduated from West Point fifteen years ago. and was a first lieutenant in the Second cavalry when the war broke out. He was called to Washing ton from Chickamauga to assist in the or- ganization of the volunteer army and in recognition of his services he was ap- pointed colonel. He is the author of "Na- poleon Bonaparte's First Campaign ''The Campaign of Marengo," and other works on the fife of Napoleon which have achiev- ed for him an enviable reputation as an historian and student of military affairs.
 Three Birmingham Companies
 Colonel Sargent, when seen by an Age Herald reporter at the Morris yesterday, said that he had not as yet determined upon the companies that would compose his regiment, though he had numerous offers from captains who said that they had full companies.
 Before leaving yesterday Colonel Sargent authorized the raising of three Birmingham companies. One to Captain Wm. w. Walker, and Lieutenant A. W. Orton, and A. Roy Lacey. The second to Captain James E. Shelley and Lieutenant Norman Jones, and the third to Captain c. M. Allen and Lieutenants Byron Dozier and Robert Schlessenger. The following is their ''com- mission:"
 Birmingham. Ala, June 6, 1898.
 This authorizes -, -, and to raise a company for my regiment. If the company is raised I will, when it is mustered into service, recommend for ap- pointment and commission the officers lected by them, provided they pass the physical and professional examination.
 H. H. SARGENT, Coloned Elfth united states volunteer h. fantry
 Nothing to Do With State Volunteers
 This immune regiment has nothing to do with the state of Alabama or with Gov ernor Johnston, though Colonel Sargent stated that he thought the government would deduct from Alabamas second call the number of men she had furnished to his regiment.
 The companies of W. P. Oliver, of Ca- tof, of n IT Moore, of Hamilton; T. N. Mcclellan, Jr., of Athens, and two or three companies which Lieutenant-Co,onel Wiley, of Mont gomery, is supposed to bring from South Alabama, are among those who have volun- teered their services to Colonel Sargent.
 Of the Mississippi companies those of Captain Meyers, of Mississippi City J. M. Liddell, of Grenada; M. P. Brothers, of Columbus; J. B. Roe, of Ocean Springs; Edgar H. Wood, of Rosedale; George Cal yer, of Ocean Springs; Captain T. L. Nunce, of Nachez F. B. Franks, of West Point are among those who have volun- teered their companies from that state.
 Will Be Mobilized at Columbus
 Each company is to have a maximum of eighty-two and minimum of seventy-five. and not 106 men as the state volunteers are organized. The companies will probably be examined and mustered into service in the cities where they arc raised. and with all twelve of them are completed they will be mobilized at Columbus, Miss, the most central point of the two states. Lieutenant Magnus o. Hollis, who has been mastering in the volunteers at Mobile, will perform this work for the immune regiment as soon as he finishes with the Second regiment, probably within the next few days.
 When the regiment is mobilized at Co., lumbus and equipped. it is possible that it will be attached to General Oates brigade, though this, of course. depends great deal on circumstances. The plan in organ izing the immune regiments Is to use them as an army of occupation in Cuba or else- where, the idea being that they are i'm mune" from yellow fever and other dis