The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-10
MAY START ON SUNDAY
CAPTAIN TODD is APPOINTED AS
MUSTER-OUT OFFICER.
THE FATE OF THE FIRST IS IN DOUBT
Gov. Russell Asked to Choose Between the
White Man and the Niger. The Third
Ordered from Fort Macon.
Mai. Whitaker's Brigade.
Maj. Whitaker's Brigade.

acting adjutant general OF North Caro-
lima, announced that Captain Albert
Todd, of the ixth Artillery. had been
appointed mastering officer to muster
out the Second North Carolina regiment.
The dispatch came from the adjutant
general of the Department of the Gulf
and asked Major Davis to request Cap
tain Todd, on his arrival here to report
to department headquarters at Atlanta.
This would seem to indicate that 1T
will be no distant day before the boys
of the Second will be brought back to
North Carolina to be mustered out
of the service of the United States. The
exact time, of course, is not yet known
even by the War Department, for it
depends ON the circumstances to a grea
extent.
1t is not thought likely that the regi-
ment will reach here for several days
yet, though letters have been received
here saying they hope to leave for Raj
eigh tomorrow. Sunday.
Five muster ont rolls will have to be
prepared and other preparations made
in regard to accounting for and turning
over to the government all property, be-
here a force of clerks will be put TO
work at once making out Burroughs and.
unless tshe present order of the War
Department is changed. the entire regi-
ment, with the exception of small
guard to be kept here. will at once take
their departure for home.
The men will not be allowed travel
pay while on Burroughs. but their per
H. Ia
in which they are on furlough, and
mustered out they will be paid their
salaries up to date, which is one days
pay and rations for each twenty miles
travelled.
1t is not yet known whether the men
will be fed by contract, as was done
when the troops We're modified at Camp
Lee last spring, or whether they will be
given daily ration Communication. Either
method may be adopted.
1t will require several days to give the
men their Burroughs, and get them
started home, but it is thought this work
will have been pretty well completed
within less than a week.
The men will have to pay their travel
ling expenses each way between their
homes and Raleigh. This is in accord
ance with army regulations, but as the
President has authority to change these
at any time, it is thought not entirely inn
probable that he may decide to allow the
men to receive travel Communication. 1t is
thought the real reason of the depart
ment's not ordering the men mustered
out of the service upon their arrival here
is to allow them another mouths pay.
but in a great many cases this sum will
be more than consumed by travelling ex-
penses.
The Third regiment-the negro regi-
ment at Fort Macon--has received NOV
ing orders and will leave its present
place of business the first of next week.
Coming up the Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad the regiment will
strike the Southern at Goldsboro, pass
Raleigh, Greensboro, Salisbury, States
vile. Ashevile and other points on its
triumphal tour. Arrived at Knoxville,
it will, | am told, be brigaded with
white regiments. one of them being the
regiment in which Judge Spier Whita-
ker is a major.
As to the future of the First North
Carolina regiment nothing definite is
known If there be any truth in the
dispatches from Washington their fate
is in the hands of Governor Russell-and
he is asked to choose between this regi-
ment and the Niger regiment.
With the reduction of the army, North
Carolina cannot keep two regiments i'll
service Either the First or the Third
must go. The Governor is asked to say
which it shall be--the white man or
the niger.
If the First regiment is kept in service.
as it should be, it will probably be sent
to Cuba to form part of the army of
occupation.
just what will become OF General
Lee is not yet known. Promises have
been made him which are yet 70 be full
filed. Secretary Alger has openly
praised him as the best corps command
er the present war has produced. 1t
still may be that the Administration will
keep its promise and that General Lee
viii be placed in command of all the
forces intended for garrison duty in
Cuba.
Genral Lees corps will be largely re-
duced by the troops alreaGy ordered to
be mustered out, and with this reduction
of the army will come the mastering out
of great number of brigadier-g generals
and other high volunteer officers. Who
these will be has not yet been determ-
ined.
What remains of General Lees army
corps after the mustering-out process is
completed will be ordered to Middle
town, Pa, it is said. Camp Meade will
be made the rendezvous of division
to be made up of General Lees soldiers
several of the regiments now at stations
under the second call, the immunes still
in the United States, and regiments
which were reserved from other com
mands
Assignments to this division will be II
demand. For the volunteers who desire
TO remain in the service garrison duty
in Cuba will in the fall and winter offel
no hardships
Tt was said at the War Department
to-day that this proposition to form dt
vision for service in Cuba was the frs
step toward the increase of the regular