Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-25

AAC1o u tu6 NEW NATIONAL 1udIO
Oraanization-Men Now in the
Volunteer Army Discharged Per
manently from the States Ser
VICE A List OF Captains and
Other Officers Selected.
Special to the Register.
Charleston. w. Va, May 24-Gov.
Atkinson issued the following order to-
day governing the reorganization Of
the West Virginia National Guard:
"Adjutant Generals Office,
charleston, W. Va, May "a, 1898.
General Order No. s.
THE law requires the commander
in chief to maintain two regiments of
infantry in the State. and portions of
the two regiments heretofore existing
LAYING been consolidated to form a
volunteer regiment for service in the
VOLUNTEER army of the United States,
the officers Of the West Virginia Ma
tional Guard not mustered in the vol
unteer regiment are placed on the su-
pernumerary list. 1t is ordered that
the guard be reorganized as follows:
Col. G.. w. Curtin, of general staff,
is assigned to the command OF the
brigade with headquarters at Parkers-
burg. Two regiments of six compa-
MES each, to be comprised of three
battalions of two companies each, will
be formed for each regiment. In ad-
dition to three companies now in SER
vice, there will be three companies to
be organized at points approved by
this officer. The officers to recruit
these companies must be approved by
this office. The minimum number al
lowed by the law will not be exceeded
in the companies on account of the
difficulty of
PROCURING EQUIPMENT.
No one should be allowed to enlist in
the National Guard who for euy reason
cannot be relied on for service in or
out of the State when called on. All
enlisted men of the West Virginia Ma
tional Guard who enlisted in the
United States volunteers are hereby
honorably discharged from the Ma
tGonal Guard of West Virginia, to
date. from muster into the United
States army.
"By command of George W. Atkinson,
Governor.
- w. NJ APPLETON,
"Adjutant General"
It will be seen that the Governor has
discharged all the enlisted men and
virtually all the officers of the Ma
tional Guard, who had not only faith
fully served the State, many OF them for
years. but are now at Chickamauga
Park ready and expecting to be sent
to Cuba at any day, to risk their lives
at the call of their country. Such an
order was prepared week before last,
and even printed while the soldiers
were encamped near here, but as 1t was
not promulgated, it was hoped by the
friends of the National Guard that the
matter had been dropped. 1t was ex-
pected the six National Guard compa-
MES left at home when the Unlteo
States volunteers were organized would
be used as nuclus for the new Ma
tional Guard, taking Major Ash, the
ranking officer, for brigade command
err and so on down the line, and grant
ing to
THE BRAVE AND GALLANT
National Guard officers and enlisted
men a leave of absence from their re-
spectiye commands until the close OF
the Spanish war.
It will surely be difficult matter
to ever procure the services OF these
patriotic men in the West Virginia
National Guard if they are to be sum-
marily dismissed from their commands,
simply because they respond to their
country's call.
The order issued to-day will no doubt
prove a great surprise to the boys at
Chickamauga park, as well-as to their
numerous friends throughout the State.
Following is the roster of officers for
the Governors provisional regiment to
90 as the Second regiment West Vir-
ginia United States volunteers as an
nounced to date:
Colonel commanding, D. T. E. Cas-
teel; regimental adjutant, R. L. Archer,
of Huntington, with rank of captain;
lieutenant colonel, O'Brien Moore, of
Charleston; major commanding first
battalion, Howard Atkinson; adjutant
first battalion. Charles w. Dryden; ma
jor second battalion, Charles D. Elliott.
now deputy u S. marshall; major third
battalion, Walker Bubb, of Grant coun-
ty. now battalion commander national
guard; regimental surgeon, w. T. Hen
shaw, Martinsburg; assistant surgeons,
n. T. Colbough, Piedmont, Percy Golf,
Clarksburg, Horace Patton, Parkers-
burg; captains, to command companies,
r. H. D. Willis, Wheeling; A. S. Hut
son, Piedmont; w. R. Handiford, Fair
mont; E. T. Smith, Hinton; ]. E.