The age-herald., 1898-05-13
ONE HUNDRED
 MORE VOLUNTEERS Called for by Col. Higdon to FiI
 Up First Regiment. HE WILL MOT CALL IN VAIN Seventeen Volunteers Left Yesterday-Twenty More, at Least, Go This Morning
 Twenty Go This Afternoon-
 More Tomorrow.

Tn special dispatch from Mobile, which is printed in another column, will be found call through The Age-Herald for 100 more volunteers to fill up the ranks of the com- panies of the First Alabama. The inspect ing surgeons played such unexpected havoc with the men originally taken down that it Is now found necessary to make this call in order to fill up the twelve com panies to their required number of ,& men each.
 Colonel Higdon never called in vain for volunteers from Birmingham and from north Alabama, and notwithstanding the large number of men that have already been sent down, Birmingham Is willing to do more than her share in aiding this righteous war. The noble women of Bir- mingham, as well as the citizens of Br- mingham who are unable from various causes to go, hold in highest regard the brave boys who are giving up their lives. many of them. for their country's sake, and there is no doubt but that others will be found to take the place sof those who tried to make the sacrifice, but who failed on the physical examination.
 Seventeen Volunteers Yesterday
 Even before the above call reached Bir- mingham sixteen men had volunteered and were on their way to Camp Clark in Mo- bile. As stated in yesterdays Age-Her- aid, Lieutenant J. H. Mallet of the Pratt Clty-Talladega company came up and began an active recruiting work. General Clark and others had been working before he came, and altogether the following seven- teen men were gotten together and sent to Mobile yesterday: C. s. Price, E. B. Pow ell, w. w. Abbott, Sam G. Mullen, Henry H. Leonard, Bass Clark, Ben Gown, James Walker, Fred Anderson. J. R. Jones. Lee Penny Joe Atkins. Charles McKenne. James Denning, E. s. Carper. ". T. Ker- win and James s. Mcconnell.
 More will follow them today and tomor- row and even after that time if any more are needed. The names of twenty men from Irondale have been signed to the muster roll, and they will be sent down this morn- ing. Twenty others have been obtained at Pratt City, and they will go down this aft- ernoon. Besides this there are many more in Birmingham and in other of the sub- urban towns who will go down, and unless indications fail nearly one hundred volun- teers will have been sent to Mobile before the day Is over.
 The recruiting officers request that the fact be emphasized that all transportation charges will be paid. All the prospective volunteer has to do is to signify his inten- tion to a recruiting officer, and the govern ment will do the rest.
 To Join Gen. Wheeler's Stan
 As published in The Age-Herald several days ago, T. w. Altman has received an appointment as courier on the staff of Ma jor-General Joseph r. Wheeler. Altman left yesterday afternoon for Chickamauga Park, where he has been ordered and he will begin his duties at once. Altman car ries with him the best wishes of his many friends
 Squad of Regulars
 A squad consisting of twelve men parsed through Birmingham yesterday afternoon on the Louisville and Nashville railroad on their way to Tampa to join the Seventeenth infantry of the United States army. These recruits were obtained in Columbus, O.
 Provision Trains
 Two train loads of army supplies left St. Louis yesterday on their way, via Birming- ham, to Tampa. They consisted of provis- ions, mules and two cars of soldiers.
 Tom Morson Back
 Tom Morson. the little bugier of the Woodlawn Light Infantry, who for the past ten days has been encamped with hls company at Mobile; returned to Birming- ham yesterday after being rejected by the surgeons on account of his age and his eye sight.