Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-19
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
FIRST REGIMENT DOES EXIST.
Colonel stern So Replies to the city
Enginecr-NiIitnry News Notes.

Colonel 10 Lane Stern, acting adjutant
general, replied yesterday TO a letter from
Colonel Wilfred +. Cutshaw inquiring II
the First Virginia Regiment was still ir
| existence. In his letter he told the City
! Engineer that IT was. and would continue
in existence until disbanded bv the Gov
| ernor. While there are but three COM
panies left, and since four went away
| to the war, the Governor has not dis
| banded the regiment, and. as far as is
known, does not contemplate doing so.
The law requires that six companies shall
be necessary for the formation of n regI-
ment, but II does not require the COM
mander-in-chief TO disband the organiza-
ton when it shall fall below the mini
mum. This matter is left entirely TO
the discretion of the Governor
The effort of the Virginia soldiers for
pay from the date they left their homes
until they were mustered into the Federal
service may yet be productive OF good
results. A number of men in most Of
the companies lost two or three weeks
from work before their pay as soldiers
commenced. 1t is the Governors pur-
pose &c have Acting Adjutant General
Stern write to the colonies of the three
regiments for list Of the men and the
time they lost before being mustered in. lie
will ask the Federal Government TO settle
this claim. but in the event he does not
succeed In this direction he will ask the
Legislature TO make an appropriation to
pay the soldiers.
Lieutenant l.. s. Sorley, of the Sixteenth
United States Infantry, who was wounded
at Santiago, passed through Richmond
Saturday, on his way to the White Sui
phur Springs, TO recuperate. Lieutenant
Sorley Is native of Texas, and was a
classmate Of Mr.. Harry Baker of this
city.
Captain Frank y. Jones, OF Fort Crook
Neb., who was shot through the leg while
in front of Santiago, also passed through
the city Saturday. He says that the
charges that General Shaftey drank TO
excess are absolutely unfounded. The
Captain says the Spanish fought like
demons until the Americans began to
charge, and then their lines wayered.
Nothing further has been heard from
Lieutenant John A. Hartman since his let
ter to his relatives, received last week.
announcing that he had been slightly
wounded.
The following instructions governing the
volunteer troops called into service under
the Presidents proclamation of April g.
1898, In addition to those contained in Gen
eial Orders, No. 90, Headquarters OF the |
Army, AdjutantGenerars office, May 5. |
1898, are published for the information and |
government of all concerned:
AS soon as practicable after the recent |
OF this order, provided Ii has not already |
been done, the commanding officer of each |
volunteer regiment, battalion, OF other
separate organization, shall convene n |
board Of officers of the command to make
inventories of all property received from
the Governor of the State or Territory to
which his command was credited, and to
make report as follows, VIZ:
!. To prepare an itemized list OF all
United States property received from the
Governor, determine its condition and
value, and fix the price (average) at which
each article of clothing should be charged
10 enlisted men.
2 To make itemized lists OF all articles
IF State property, and to determine and
report its money value at the time the
property was received from the State in
'luding clothing issued TO enlisted men.
Quartermasters' property and ordnance
property should be borne on separate in
and the reports OF the several
'oads, after approval by the respective
officers. be forwarded direct
o the chief Of the bureaus to which the
pertains