The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-17
(Specitl TO The MesenSer)

No Quartermasser'. stores Received.
(Specitl to The Mesenger.)
Raleigh. n. c., May 12.-Captain Balm
n First Sergeant Lewis, of the Colds
ooro company. of the First regimen,
returned his afternoon after a long,
tiresome and vain search after two
men Of that company who deserted.
1t is believed the deserters are being
harbored by some people in the sec
ton OF Wayne county from which they
came.
There was considerable talk last
night n today about John'w. Gotten
Of Tarboro, as one of the majors of
Second regiment. J. w. Griffith, of
Greensboro. is appointed by Colonel
Burgwyn chief musician of the Second
regiment and will form a band OF
twenty-four pieces from enlisted men.
David Clark, son of Judge Walter
Clark, is appointed adjutant OF Major
B. F. Dixon's battalion of the Second
regiment.
The tents did not arrive today, and,
in fact, no quartermasters' stores came,
but great quantities OF commissary
supplies did.
The Wilmington company of the Sec
ond regiment yet lacks two men of its
required complement. 1t was on drill
this afternoon, mainly skirmishing, and
did very c%reditable work.
The Washington company of the
Caaaal 49, ~
seventy-four men, having received to-
day twenty-one, seventeen of them
from Roanoke Rapids. The Burlington
company has only forty-eight. There
is a sharp scramble for recruits.
Companies Of the Second regiment
from Gastonia. Captain Durham, and
of Tarboro, Captain Gotten, were be-
fore the rgeon today for examina-
ton.
No companies were mustered in to-
day. The mastering officer says h. is
dissatisfied with the shortness of men
in most companies Of the regiment.
The adjutant general declares that
there will be enough by Saturday
morning to fill the regiment.
r. G. Loves company from Waynes-
willie today t~elegraphed it's readiness to
come with 100 men and it's desire to get
in the Second regiment. The adjutant
general replied, with thanks for it's pat
riotism, that it must wait for the sec
ond call.
A tel gram to Mastering Officer
Gresham says that the hospital corps
of seventy-three called for from North
Carolina will be in United States SER
vice and not in the volunteers. The
state will present the men and the
mastering officer and surgeons are to
accept them. There are many applica-
tons and the list is being prepared.
The adjutant general says he has not
know when they will be examined and
mustered in.
Surgeon Wilder says that only five
men from the First and the Second reg
iments are sick in the hospital, all of
trivial ailments.
A telegram was sent the secretary of
war by h governor today, saying he
desired Lieutenant Wilder, u. s. A,
"No - oppoiANNu HioJcA "a AZ HASb
battalion, Second regiment, sent here
at once for duty.
The following appointments Of Second
regiment officers are announced to-
night: Assistant surgeons, f. VI.
Brevard, Charlotte; ]. u. Spier, Jr.,
Goldsboro; battalion adjutants, S. II.
MacRae, David Clark. and Bradley T.
Wooten. The last is a graduate Of the
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
where he wos cadet major, and was
specially named for military proficien-
cy, his name being on the army regis
ter. Mastering Officer Gresham, who
is commandant of cadets, particularly
urged Wooten's appointment.
Captain Holt Of Burlington is work
ing like a beaver to recruit his COM
pany Of the Second regiment by to-
morrow afternoon. Such work de-
serves success.
Warren V. A. Ham, of Shelby, today
presented to the Second regiment CT
volunteers a United States flag . by
35 feet in size. It appears very prob
able tonight that John w. Gotten will
be one of the majors OF the Second
regiment.