The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-25
SOLDIERS ORDERED HERE
THE CAMP WILL BE IN THE NOR
DECAI FIELD.
LATER THEY Will GO TO RICHMOND
BY To Morrow Night ''the Boys" win be
Coming to Raleigh Governor
Still Troubled About who viii
Pay The Freight.

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teer militia OF North Carolina leaving |
their homes to the rattle OF drums and
the strains of martial music. Tomor
row night will see them going into camp
here. probably on thcMordccai field, |
north of the city.
The President will today issue in
rious States to mobilize their quota of
troops at once.
Immediately unon rccepHon OIL
these instructions Governor Russell will
issue his call for the2,oS4 men appor
toned to Norm Carolina. This done Ad-
iutant General Cowles will call upon the
companies comprising the State Guard
to Indicate their willingness to volunteer
As soon as replies are received those
indicating their readiness TO serve any
where they may be sent under the flag
will he ordered to Raleigh. The com
manding officers of such companies as
viii volunteer for service in the volunteer
army of the United States will be order
ed TO at once proceed to recruit their
respective companies TO ut least eighty
enlisted men. Any company volunteer
ing as Il body for such service will be
mustered in with its own officers.
The Governors proclamation is practi-
cally prepared. aud it will take but u
| few minutes today 10 complete the docu
mcnt. Ii is not often that a Governor
| has occasion to prepare a paper calling
| for troops. there fore. His Excellency
| has drafted his call with much care.
| Ills EXccllency win ask that such en-
| listed men as cannot, by reason of hay
ing families solely dependent upon them,
or through physical iniirmitics, 90 to the
/ front. be given their honorable discharge.
/ He viii also request employers TO retain
| open the positions of such of their en-
| ployecs as do enlist, or are IN the MILF
tary and restore them to their employ
when the war is ended. A similar course
has been followed in Virginia and sew
eral other States.
1t is the Governors desire that the
North Carolina troops be purely a yolun
tccr force and he will give every man
| the opportunity 10 20 or stay at home.
| But the latter class will be uncomfort-
| ably small. Those who prefer TO stay
al home are vastly outnumbered by those
| who are eager to 20 TO the front. There
/ W III Hc uiNfIltbiIttIlltbI III lilly ItSiintuA
that is moi called upon. Ii is no longer "A
! question Of whether the Guard will be
called upon; II WAS Il question of when
| tire regiments will depart for the front.
| il is not the Governors intention tol
| form any new rcgimental organizations.
He will only ask for troops to recruit
the present regiments TO their full
strength. North Carolina will have toI
finnish rGI fr,tot,. uudpr n call far
l25,000 men. and it is proposed to recruit
the present regiments TO about 700 men,
which will make slightly over the num-
her asked for. as there are four regi
ments in the State.
The troops can be brought here in
| eighteen hours. but il is probable that
some time will he given the companies
to recruit and otherwise prepare forI
coming here General Cowlcs thinks
they will be kept here several weeks toI
be re-equipped and drilled for active SER
vice. before being taken to Richmond or
! Atlanta to be brigaded with other troops.
| Governor Russell held a further con
ference yesterday with Adjutant General
| Cowes and certain members Of the State
| Council. in regard TO the expenses of the
| notifications He contends that the
| State is unable to bear it and he will
not call the men out unless the govern
ment will guarantee early repayment of
! the money. This. Of course, it will do.
! Governor Russell, in this connection,
contended that there was no necessity
| for the State troops to be modified here
or AT any other place. They are prepared,
| he thinks. 10 20 from their armNies di-
| rect 10 Tampa or any other place they
may be needed, either for home defense
or invasion Of foreign territory.
| Adiutant General Cowles, however,
| convinced him that this would never do;
| that the men were, to Il great extent,
| new men, and oven those who have
| Known long service must be mustered III
and drilled with the new men. The good
name Of the State, so far as its troops
are concerned, depends to very great
| extent on this.
| The instructions from Washington
this morning will probably settle the
! question Of expense.
| The enlistments in the Guard are be-
| ing made on the basis of three years
service the following blank enlistment
| being signed by all the recruits:
ENLISTMENT
/. @ born iIi---, aged - years
and by occupation n , do hereby,
/ on this day OF , 1S9-, ac-