Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-28
NEARLY THE QUOTA.
WILL STRIKE The SOUTHWEST.
The Recruiting Details Will Go to
Radford To-xiEht-Many Men watt
ing to Go-Recruits Sent to Jack.
sonviIle.

IL Will be only a few DAYS now until
virginia has completed her quota of
troops under the second call.
Captain C. Gray Bossieux. of the Sc
cond Regiment. and Lieutenant w. p.
Klein, OF the Fourth, who have been here
for several weeks on recruiting dutv
VIII leave tonight for the Southwest 10
obtain the men still needed to fill I'D the
two regiments. There are about fifty
men In that section who are ready TO
start to Jacksonville to Join the regi-
ments. and these will probably be started
thither Tomorrow There is every as
surance given that the necessary num-
Der to complete the strength Of the regi-
ments can be secured In the Southwest
IN very short time. Captain Bossieux
and Lieutenant Klein will go directly to
Radford, but will visit various points I'm
the Southwest. The enlistment spirit has
always been very strong throughout this
section, and recruits have been found
easy to obtain. Pulaski county has the
record OF having furnished more men for
the present war than any other in the
state, though 1t Is one of the smallest in
population.
AN IMPRESSION ABROAD.
The impression that Virginia is slow
IN furnishing her quota under the second
CAL seems to have become very wide
spread, owing TO the industry of certain
Washington correspondents, and the Gov
ernor and Acknowledgement continue
10 rap6iNn
men In other States to be allowed to
furnish to Virginia companies which they
have raised, or intend raising, elsewhere.
AS matter of fact. were two new regi-
ments asked for from this State they
could be furnished with ease, as nearly
companies enough have been organized,
or can be at short notice. Had the Pres
ident asked for new organizations instead
OF men TO fill up the three regiments al
ready sent forward, they would have
been ready almost at once but there
has been some difficulty in obtaining re-
cruits. there being offered the men who
had the war spirit no chances for COM
missions, or the chevrons of a non-com-
mission. These are naturally strong in
centives TO work in securing enlistments,
as has been found by the recruiting off,
GERS sent back home by the Virginia regi-
ments.
CONSTANT RECRUITING.
1t Is believed that recruiting detail
from each regiment in the field will have
TO be kept at home all the time in orden
to keep the regiments up to their full
strength. Discharges from various causes,
and in many instances no cause at all.
save the interest of sympathetic con-
gressmen, and deaths, are continually de-
plotting the regiments. and men have to
be secured to I'LL up blank files. Only
yesterday Lieutenant Klein was notified
that he would have to obtain twelve
more men for the Fourth Regiment than
originally ordered.
The following recruits were sent TO
Jacksonville Tuesday night:
For the Second Regiment-Harvey G.
Baxter. Frank A. Lnkus, Jesse w. Fol-
den. Joseph r. Faulkner. Henry c. Ander-
son, George NJ Owens, William L. Os-
bon, and Mathew T. Woody.
For the Fourth Resfment-Charles II.
Zachary, Jacob M. Paden, Arthur d. Ro-
binson, Charles ]. Allison, James II.
OVERLY, Charles w. Lnthall, William d.
Wilmore, Gus. Tilson, and William Tilson.