The age-herald., 1898-08-05
RECRUITING OFFICE CLOSED
Lieutenant Hardeman and Assistants
 Leave For Miami.
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED RECRUITS
Have Been Gotten in Greater Birrnir Q. ham For the First, Which Has Been Assigned to Porto Rico
 Artillery Recruits.

The officers and men of the First Ala
 bama Volunteers, who have been in charge of the Birmingham recruiting office, yes
 terday packed up their belongings, closed up the Jefferson Volunteer armory, where
 they have made their headquarters, and left to join their regiment at Miami.
 Those that left were Lieutenant Thomas
 Hardeman, Sergeant Charles A. Gardner and Private Jack Price. They took with | them one recruit, and three others were
 to meet them at Tocoa As has been before stated, these men received orders Wednes- day to report back to their regiment at
 Miami, and they left yesterday. | The mission of this and other recruiting | offices in north Alabama has been to fill | up the companies of the First Alabama to their maximum quota of 1O6 men each. Un- der the presidents first call, only S4 men
 were permitted in one company and with this organization the regiment was mus tered into the service.
 Later, when the president issued his sec ond call for volunteers. it was decided
 that, instead of organizing entirely new
 regiments, that the ones already in the service should be filled up to their maxi mum strength of 106 men each. Recruit
 ing officers were sent out all over the dis trict from which each regiment was raised and the difficult job begun of getting volun- | teers to go with regiment which was all | ready fully organized.
 Moe Than Hundred Men Capt. G. F. Hart and four assistants first | opened the office here on June g. soon after | ward all the remaining three captains of l the Birmingham battalion, as well sev- | eral lieutenants, were also on duty here. | They remained in this place until July I, | and during this period gave rigid physi- | cal examina ton to about 150 men and ac- cepted about 110 of them. Capt. Huey, who was recruiting in Bessemer during this
 time sent down thirty men and Lieut. Hardeman sent down twnty-six from Bes- semer and Pratt City.
 On July 5 Lieut.. Hardeman was put in
 charge of the main office in Birmingham
 and since that time has examined 1l2 men and has accepted eighty.
 When this recruiting first began the regi-
 ment needed about 436 men to complete its maximum quota and of this number it will be seen by figures given that "Greater Br-
 mingham" furnished about 246, largely over half.
 Besides furnishing recruits Birmingham almost filled the first regiment and has furnished men to the second Two compa-
 nies went from Birmingham in the begin ming. besides one from Woodlawn East Lake and Pratt City. Since the war begun there has been hardly time that recruit-
 ing office for the regular army was not
 open That they have been kept open Is a
 proof that they have done well. q
 There is no way of getting the exact num-
 Der of men Birmingham has furnished but
 it is safe to estimate the number al not less
 than 1.5O0. The number has in all proba-
 bility run far above this figure. Artillery Recruits
 The recruiting office for the First Ala
 bama artillery in the government building
 has done good work in the past few days. Lieutenant Marsh. who is in charge, has
 sent off two and has examined and &C.,
 cepted several others. They will be sent
 off in a day or two
 The two that have just gone are John H. Black and J. H. Thompson. They were assigned to the batteries of light artillery belonging to this regiment, which are now doing service in Cuba.
 Surgeon Dabney Luckie to Mobile
 Surgeon Dabney Luckie of the Third Ala bama Volunteers left yesterday for Mo- bile to join his regiment. Lieutenant Luckie has been on duty in Birmingham and other places in the state for some time past, examining the recruits for the various companies as they were being organized.
 The Third is entirely filled now, and Dr.
 Luckie said that he thought 1t was mus tered into the service either yesterday or the day before.