The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-04
IT'S SETTLED.
The New Regiment which is to
go From This State is
Selected.

Everything is Lovely at Charleston and
the Goose hangs high--iY. j. White.
Of M0rgantown, is to be Regimental
AdintaDt- Col. Smith Gets a Com
maEd-The Companies which are TO
Compose the New regiment Of
the Officers from here will have TO
return a. there is no place for them.
All the Cadet officers are left out.
The recruits Necessary to fill up the
Companies will be taken from the
towns In which the Companies are
Located This lets the men here who
Volunteered to go into the Clarksburg
Company have Chance TO go. ,
CHARLESTON, w. VA, May 1.-The
difficulty in regard to the commanding
officers Of the new regiment of West
Virginia troops TO be organized to
serve in the war with Spain having
been at last satisfactorily arranged,
the work of recruiting and filing out
the regiment will now go on briskly
and will be completed within one or
two weeks The work Of enrolling the
volunteers was begun yesterday, and
the result was very complimentary to
the national guardsmen. There were
eighteen commissioned officers and two
hundred and sixty men who volun-
teered from the First regiment, and
eighteen commissioned officers and
two hundred and fifty-fiye men out of
the Second regiment, making total
Of thirty-six officers and five hundred
and flfty-one men. 1t Is thought
that at least fifty more men will vol
unteer tomorrow. making
SIX HUNDRED MEN
In all. which is just half enough for
the new regiment. There are FIVE
hundred and twenty-eight men in the
First regiment Of the state militia,
aud five hundred and fifty-eight in
the Second regiment showing that
only little more than half of the
men have volunteered. Those who
have fully decided not to volunteer
have been sent home, the state paying
the expense of the return trip. At
least six hundred new men must be
secured to recruit the regiment, and
TOR this purpose it is probable that
RECRUITING OFFICES
will be at once opened at several
points in the state.
The officers of the new regiment
have been made up as follows. Cen
eral Spillman will be colonel OF the
al
will be lieutenant colonel: Col. Banks
of the Second regiment, and Lieut..
Col Shaffer Of the first regiment, will
be reduced to majors; Lieut.. Col
Lyon, Major White and Major Morri-
son will be reduced TO captains. The
battalion organization of the new reg
iment will then be: First battalion,
companies A, of Bluedeld; B, of Bis
sell; G, OF Huntington: X, of Clarls-
burg, to be commanded by Col Smith.
Second battalion, companies A, of FL
kiDs: e, Of Martinsburg; l, of Charles
Town, and l, of Huntington, to be
commanded by Major Banks. Third
battalion, companies B, of Mounds
Vile; c. of Ansted; ID, of Berkeley
| Springs, and e, of Parkersburg, to be
commanded by Major Shaffer. The
| battalion commanders are arranged
according to their rank in
THE OLD REGIMENTS,
and the battalicns are made up &C.
cording to the seniority Of service of
their respective captains.
The Second regiment band refused
to volunteer, and they have returned
to Huntington.
The work of putting the volunteers
through their PHYSICAL examination
will probably be begun tomorrow.
COL. sPILLMAN's STAFF
has now been fully arranged as fol-
lows: Adiutant, William j. White,
of Morgantown; quartermaster, III. w.
Jenkins, of Huntington: chief sur
geon H. b. Baguley, of Wheeling:
assistant surgeons, G. Gillian, of
| Ansted, and G. L. Nesbitt, of Fair
mont; sergeant major, Phil G.. Wal
ker, of Charleston; quartermaster
sergeant, S. w. Poe, of Grafton; chief
musician, Il. Lindesmann, of Hunt
ington; chief trumpeter, to be- APP
pointed; hospital stewards, George NJ.
Boyce and Charles Crider. The COM
panies composing the new regiment
have been remembered and are locat-
ed as follows: A at Huntington; B
at Bluedeld; G at Bissell; d at
Clarksburg; e at Ekins; f at Hunt
ington; G at Charles Town; II at
Martinsburg; | at Berkeley Springs;
X at Ansted: L at Parkersburg, NJ at
| Moundsville.~
| 1t has been decided to
| OPEN RECRUITING OFFICES
in the towns from which the compan-
les forming the regiments comes, so
that the new recruits may 60 into the
company with their friends.