The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-29
CAPTAIN HUSKE is LUCKY
HE DRAWS THE LUCKY LETTER
AND Is COMPANY A.
RuTHERfoROroN COMPANY IS NEXT
Captain W. T. R. Bell Draws the Letter 3
and Gets Second Posi- ion--The Regiment
Now Completely Organized Camp
Notes and Other Military News.

sell Yesterday AFTERNOON 10 NitHSSS th~
first dress parade by the second North
Carolina regiment of volunteers and to
hear the music by the second regiment
band. The regiment lined up in regi-
mental line for the first time yesterday,
and it is, as a whole, fine body of men,
strong and athletic, as a rule, anG cal
culated to make n regiment of fine sol
diers. The dress parade yesterday while
very satisfactory was not quite COM
plete, as a good many of the staff Off
GERS have not yet secured their horses.
and only Colonel Burgwyn and his adj
iutant, r. l.. Gray. were mounted, but
the regimental drill showed that CON
sidering the short time the men have
been in camp, they have become re-
markably proficient.
1t seems to everybody pity that the
boys are not thoroughly equipped with
uniforms and arms.
or course n regiment without thorough
equipment cannot make perfectly cred
liable show.
This second regiment, when completely
equipped and when well drilled, is going
to be one of the crack regiments of the
volunteer service. Colonel Burgwyn anG
all the regimental officers are doing ali
il their power to perfect the men in drill
and other military discipline and they
are succeeding admirably.
The three battalions were formed in
dress parade at q o'clock yesterday AZ
ternoon and the first general order was
published by Adjutant Gray by COM
mand of the colonel commanding, VIM.
H. S. Burgwyn.
The order was rs follows;
Headquarters Second Regiment N. G.
Volunteers, L. $. A.,
Camp Dan Russell, May %, 1893.
General Order No. /.
Paragraph /. Appointed colonel Of this
the second regiment North Carolina vol
unteers by his excellency Daniel Il.
Fowle, Esq, governor of North Caro-
lima, and duly mustered in the army of
the United States, the undersigned as
sumes command.
The material is all one could wish to
make the regiment equal to the expeeta-
ton Of its friends.
Self denial, unquestioned obedience
strict attention to drill will be necessary
in his efforts for the good of the COM
mand.
The undersigned does not doubt but
officers and by the rank and file
Paragraph =. The companies will be
lettered as follows:
Company A, Captain B. r. Huske.
Company b, Captain w. 4. r. Bell
Company G, Captain Edmund Jones.
Company y, Captain r. p Gray
Company Il, Captain j. T. Smith.
Company II, Captain s. ]. Cobb.
Company g. Captain r. Il. Durham.
Company II, Captain John A. Wagner
Company |, Captain G. W. Jeffries
Company X, Captain Donald McRae.
Company l., Captain ]. T. Gileson.
Company NJ Captain Jas. w. Cooper
Paragraph 3. They will be formed in
to three battalions, viz:
First battalion, Companies A, g. *
and ID. Major w. T. Wilder.
Second battalion. Companies Il, Fl, r..
and Il, Major b. f. Dixon.
Third battalion, Companies G, /, NJ
and +, Major Jno. w. Cotton.
Paragraph 4 The field and commits.
stoned staff officers are as follows:
Andrew d. Cowlcs, lieutenant colonel:
VIM. L. Wilder, major; b. II. Dixon.
major; Jno. w. Cotton, major; r. l..
Gray, adjutant Of the regiment: s. II.
MeRae, adjutant first battalion: David
clark, adjutant second battalion: h. +.
Wooten, adiutant third battalion; snr-
geon, Major Jas. Ii. Stockard first MS
sistant surgeon, Captain t. w. Brevard.
second assistant surgeon, First Lieuten-
ant Wm. II. Brooks; chaplain, Rev. Ed
win A. Osborne; quartermaster Firs.
Lieutenant Robert b. Davis.
Paragraph g. The non-commissioued
staff are as follows:
Sergeant maiOr TT'hoC wv nov;
Quartermaster sergeant. Logan d
Howell.
Chief musician, Jacob Guth.
FIRST principal musician, Theohola
! Waller.
Second principal musician, Thomas
Joppling.
Hospital steward, Geo. Thrashmal
Gore - -
Landis
Sergeant major third battalion u. S.
Battle =
They will be obeyed and respected ac-
cordingly
WM. II. S. BURGWYN.
Colonel Commanding.
A special order was read by Adintant
Gray by order of Colonel Burgwvn. de-
tailing Priyates Il. b. Tucker and %. II.
BoyRin, Of company e. as clerks. and
Privates Lee b. Shuffler and Walter L.
Biniield, Of company G, as storckeepers
all of them TO report to Lieutenant Row
land.
All the regimental officers were present
except Major Wilder. who has gone on
short visit TO his old home in Iouis-
burg. In his absence Captain II. Percy
Gray. of company G, acted as major of
the first battalion. when the regiment
had been formed into lire the signal
was given and the new band marched
back and forth the entire line plaving n
stirring military air. The music was
very good and demonstrated that while
the band lacks little practice. it is com
posed of first-class musicians. and will
he most pleasing feature Of the daily