The age-herald., 1898-07-01
ONLY FOURTEEN
 MEN ARE NEEDED To Complete the Birmingham Battalion
 to Maximum Quota. OFFICERS STILL AT WORK Have Secured One Hundred and Thirty
 Seven Recruits. ANOTHER SQUAD SENT TO. MIAMI Immune Companies FIourishing and All Will Soon Be FiIIed-Captain TrimbIe's Me-
 gro Company-Rozier Casey
 Appointed a Lieutenant.
ANOTHER SQUAD SENT TO. MIAMI
Immune Companies FIourishng and All Will
 Soon Be FiIIed-Captain TrimbIe's Ne-

The Birmingham battalion of the First regiment needs fourteen men to complete its maximum quota. Since the figures publishd in The Age-Herald a day or two ago, showing that this battalion was prac- ticaly filed, Colonel Higdons has tele- graphed that on account of a number Of transfers from this battalion to the hospital corps and other battalions, the Birmng- ham companies still need few men,
 Including the squad of men sent down yesterday the Woodlawn Light Infantry needs three men, the Jefferson Volunteers four men, the Rifles two men, and the Huey Guards five men. Captains Parkes, Ken nedy, Ledbetter and Hart are straining every nerve to get this number off this afternoon or at latest by tomorrow. After that time they hope that Colonel Higdon will relieve them and let them return to their companies.
 The recruiting officers have done good work in the two three weeks they have been here, having sent down in all,' 137 men. Twenty-four of these were for Com pany A, twenty-six for Company G, twenty nine for Company K, and twenty-eight for Company L. Twenty have also been sent for the Bessemer Rifles, of the second battalion.
 The recruiting officers in this city have not been paid off yet, as they were in Bir- mingham at the time the government pay masters were at Mobile. They will receive their pay however as soon as they return. The officers and non-commissioned officers of the regiment received their pay from the time their companies were mustered in, while the privates draw pay from the time they left their homes, May l. For tnis reason the privates drew more pay than some of their on-commissioned officers.
 The following men were sent down to Miami, Fla, yesterday for the Birming- ham battalion of the First Alabama regi- ment Wallace Smith, in commando Thos. E. Holt, w. J. Brown, ThoS. Smith, A. A. Gormon, Martin w. Daly, Wm. Shaw, Jas. Zollicoffer, J. F. Thurman, John Williams, Ed Simpson, Dan Harrington and A. .. Brown.
 The following were sent down for the Bessemer Rifles, of the second battalion:
 w. Faucher, R. Faucher, w. Milon and B. Burkhalter.
 Lieutenant Norman Jones, of Captain Shelley's immune company, sent twelve men to Columbus, Miss, yesterday The Magic City Guards sent four and Captain Walker three.
 Walter C. Harkins has returned to the clty aIter d tflp tnTOuSu thS Souieis the interest of Captain H. B. Bankhead's immune company at Fayette. He reports that they have nearly forty men in camp and plenty more coming.
 Two train loads of soldiers passed through the city yesterday over the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad, destined for Tampa. Some of them were regulars and others volunteers from the various north ern states.
 Captain John Trimble has established the headauarters of his colored company in the skating rink on Powell avenue and Twentieth street. He has several energetic engroes out hustling for him and expects to get up his 106 men in @ short time.
 H. Rozier Casey, of this city, has been offered lieutenancy in a colored con- pany being organized by the Armstrong brothers at Opelika, which he will very likely accept. Lieutenant Casey graduated in '96 at Auburn with high military. hon. ors and his friends say he will make splendid officer.