The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-12
1T is EXPECTED TO-DAY
MANY OF THEM ARE SHORT IN
NUMBERS.
DEsERTERS FROM GOLDSBoRo COMPANY
They viii be Tried by Court Martial, |
Caught, and Probably Sent to the
Penitentiary--FieId Officers
Court Amounted.

Second volunteer feStlllent VI lhS ~NoAt III
Caronna troops in camp here. They
are as follows:
Greensboro, Captain Percy Gray, 50
men.
Wilmington Captain Donald McRae,
rs men.
Oxford, Captain H. L. Skinner, 40
men.
Washington, Captain Ivey Foreman,
% men.
Burlington, Captain James H. Holt,
20 men.
Gastonia, Captain Il. l.. Durham. 81
men.
Rutherfordton, Captain w. I. Il. Bell,
rs men.
Lumber Bridge, Captain S. j. Cobb
IS men.
Tarboro, Captain John w. Gotten, 80
men.
Greenville Captain j. 4. Smith, AZ
men.
Nantahala. Captain , 102 men.
The remaining company will come
from Caldwell and Burke counties
raised by Edmund Jones, of Lenoir and
A. G. Avery, Jr, of Morganton. They
viii arrive today. 1t will be full COM
pany of good men. Messrs. Jones and
Avery having combined their two COM
panies. Mr.. Jones is captain and Mr..
Avery is first lieutenant.
1t was expected that the Reidsville
company would be in this regiment. bus
Captain Gladstone failed to secure 50
men, and gave way for the Henderson
company. That, in turn, couldn't get the,
required number in time. and so finally
Messrs. Jones and Avery We're notified
that they could get in if they would come
,I..f.N
The Greensboro and Wilmington com
panies arrived last week, and the former
has already been mustered in. The VIII
mington company has never vet been
able to get the required number of men,
still lacking two Six of the men in tho
company rejected by the surgeons went
home yesterday. They were: o. A.
Virgins, John Il. Hinson, Ed b. Moore
Geo. l.. Moran, John A. Schroeder and
Robin Taylor. Three of them were re-
jected on account of their eyes and three
on account of heart disease.
The Oxford company still lacks ten
men. 1t came here with only about forty
men, but it has been working hard to re-
cruit uB to the eighty men necessary.
Fourteen new ones came in Yesterday
six came Tuesday and ten Monday. 1t is
expected that the ten still lacking will
arrive today.
The Washington company still lacks
fifteen men. but it is expected that that
number will come in today to join the
company.
Companies coming here short of men
find great trouble in recruiting. They
should not be allowed TO come until they
have the required number said Captain
Gresham, the mastering officer, yester-
day afternoon. Eighty good men is
the required number. and they know it.
1t is easier to get those men at home
than here. and there is where they ought
to stay till they have the full number.
| shall tonight Telegraph the War De
partment just how these half-companieS
are coming in. After they get here they
can neither be examined nor mustered in
until they are complete.
Il shall tomorrow try to have those
companies with as many as eighty men
in them examined. and those that have
that number to pass | shall at once
muster in.
II want to get through here before
going TO Fort Macon to muster in the
negroes, but unless the companies re-
cruit more promptly than it now looks
like they viii / shall have to leave here
and go down to Fort Macon to swear III
the negro battalion
The trouble seems to be that there
are plenty Of men willing to volunteer
providing there are homefolks along
with them in a company raised ut their
home but as a rule they do not care Ia
enlist in strange company among PEG
pie that they do not know
The tents not yet having arrived, the
companies that came yesterday were
given quarters in the fair ground build
nIrafp md OF w HnP A.,
them, and they were made as comfortable
rs possible by Lieutenant Marshall. II
is expected that the tents will be here
today
The first companies to arrive yester
day We're the rutherford. Gastonia and
Lumber Bridge companies,on a Seaboart
SPECIAL. Later the Greenville and Tar
ooro companies came. and last night the
Nantahala men arrived.
ne question as to when the First regi
hleht WIN leave here is still much dis
cussed, both by the soldiers in camp anC
by the citizens here generally.
As already stated in these columns
the regiment will probably 90 as sooI
az ~ y uniformed and equipped, which
VIII be some ten days yet.
That this is the programme q sbo,,.,
by a telegram from General RI q ror
bin, Adjutant General Of the Init,
States yesterday to Capt Gresham. ia,
mastering officer, inquiring the nnmhe,
OF the regiment, and the name of FL,
colonel commanding, selected by the Gov
ernor TO go forward: Report by tele
graph what clothing and camp and gar
rlson equipage is necessary to fully eaui
the companies. utilizing all available sun
plies previously furnished by the govern
ment in the hands Of State authorities
State number of companies to these reg
ments."
Capt Gresham replied that the Gov
ernor had selected the First regimen
of North Carolina volunteer infantry. I
S. A.. to go forward. and that the colont
commanding is J. +. Armfield and tn
number of companies is twelve Cap