The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-02
FIVE BELONG TO GUARDS
THE OTHER SEVEN ARE COM
POSED OF NEW MEN.
THEY Will BEGIN TO ARRIVE TO. MORROW
All These Who Are Raising Companies Are
Rushing Their Enlistment so as 10 Get
10 the Next Regiment'-Notes
About the Camp.

The Second Volunteer kcghheht ol
North Carolina troops will begin 60 come
To Raleigh tomorrow,
The companies in this regiment will.
for the most part, be new ones, not
members of the State Guard. The only
State Guard companies in it will be the
ReidSvine Rifles Captain Robert G.
Gladstone; Humber Bridge Light In
fantry. Captain :. j. Cobb; Wilmington
Light Infantry, Captain Donald Mae
Rae. and possibly the Edgccomh@
Guards.
The other nine companies will he
composed of those that have been en-
listing ian various parts of the State.
ON Tuesday the following companies
are expected To arrive; Reidsyile Rifles,
Captain X. q. Gladstone; Wilmington
Light Infantry, Captain Donald Mac
Rae; Clarkton company, raised 10y g..
Ii. Currie: Greensboro company. raised
by Percy Gray: Washington company,
raised by W. c. Rodman.
ON Wednesday-Iu Bridge Light
Infantry. Captain :. j. Cobb; Colds
horo Rifles. Captain 4. III. Balm, tthis
company belong TO the first regiment of
volunteersl; Burlington company, raised
by ]. Fl. Holt
On Thursday Such companies MS are
necessary to COMPLETE the required num-
her t12l in a regiment. will arrive. They
viii be selected from the following new
companies. the fortunate ones being
those first recruited up to the required
number (S4l of men: Marion, James A.
Byrd: Gastonia. Robert L. Durham;
Marshall. j. A. Rector; Webster. w. w.
Johnston: S. III. Hilton. Charlotte: 4. c.
Avery, Jr.. Morganton; W. \. Stewart.
Lunn. and any others that may be
formed. and the Adiutant General is
notified before the regiment is com
pleted.
The Adiutant General suggests that
the companies that have recruited up.but
failed to get into this regiment, main
tain their organization and await an
other call for troops. which he thinks will
be made soon. He advises them to Sc
cure n full complement of good men.
! elect officers and notify the .Adjutant
General so that he may call OH them
Immediately the President issues his call.
1t is not known vet who the officers
Of the second regiment will be. The Sc
lection of the colonel will be left, in
great part to the captains of the com
panics composing the regiment. Several
names are already being urged for the
place. Among those suggested are Cap
tain L. X. Robertson, Charlotte; Colonel
w. III. s. Bnrgwyn, Henderson: Judge
Spier Whitaker. Raleigh. and Colonels
John II. Bruton. w A. Bobbitt and w.
II. Rodman. The three last named gen
tlemen, however. never having volun-
teered. their names are not favorably
considered. The officers will all be eth
or State Guardsmen or citizen soldiers
with the single exception of the Lieuten-
aDt-Colonel. He. as in the first regiment
will be West Pointer.
The names of West Pointers from
North Carolina mentioned in this con
nection are CAPTAIN G. d. C0wles.
Twenty second Infantry; Captain j.
Il. Batchelor. .Ir., Captain r. W. Jones.
Captain III. Il. Ferguson. Captain Henry
Lemley, Lieutenant A. L. Fais0n. Lieu
tenant Ship. Lieutenant Settle and
Lieutenant McIyer. CoWles and Lem
ley graduated about twenty-five years
ago, Jones about twenty years and
Bachelor about sixteen. Ferguson
graduated last year, and is now a mem
her of the engineer corps at Willett's
Point; FasOn graduated in 1889, and is
an Instructor at West Point.
1t is believed that Captain CowIes
will be the lucky man.
AS already stated in these columns.
Lieutenant IL. +. Davis. now at Fort
| taswell, has been chosen by Colonel
Armficld rs his lieutenant. He tele-
graphed Lieutenant Davis yesterday TO
come TO Raleigh this afternoon and as
slSl III organizing the regiment.