The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-26
Each Company Must Have
Eighty-Four Men.
GENERAL ORDER NO.
THE COMPANIES ARE RAPIDLY
VOLUNTEERING.
ONLY ONE HAS REFUSED TO VOLUNTEER
The Governors Guard the First Company to
Volunteer and the Hornets Nest Rifle
men, at Charlotte, Was the Mex,

Volunteer ana Inc HOTnet Nest ''''9
men, at Charlotte, Was the Mex.
General Order No. /.
..The captains of such companies OF
the State Guard as will volunteer 1or
service in the volunteer army OF the
United States will at once recruit their
eonpanies to not less than eighty
men. Any company volunteering as Il
hody will be accepted and mustered in
to the United States service with its
own officers.
"By order of the Governor and Com
mander in Chief.
"(SigneD ID. COWLES.
'Adiutant General"
The above was sent yesterday morn
ing to every company in the State and
to each of the colonels-W. b. Rodmall
~, John f. Bruton (2), w. A. Bobbitt
%, and j. f. Armheld "a of the four
regiments OF State troops. The captains
of companies were requested to make
immediate acknowledgement of the re-
ceipt of the order. stating how many
men they could furnish.
half an hour later Capt. A. j. .Craw-
ford of the Governors Guard, called
and left the following with the Adju-
tant General:
Raleigh, n. c.. April %, 1898.
A. ID. Cowles. Adjutant General.
Your order number one received, and
will recruit at once to the required
strength. / hereby volunteer our SER
vices.
~ J. CRAWFORD,
Captain Co. c., 1st Regiment.
A few minutes later the first answer
from company out of the city was
received. 1t read.
Charlotte. n. G.
Gen. A. ID. Cowles. Adjutant General:
General order number one received.
hereby volunteer. Have begun to recruit
to required strength. Advise me prob
able departure.
T. II. ROBERTSON,
Captain Co G.. I'd Regiment.
Then others began to pour in, all OF
them, except one. volunteering the en-
tire company. That one was the Colds
boro Rifles. Captain Balm acknowl
edged receipt of the order and replied
that he could not furnish a single man
The Durham company announced its
entire readiness as follows:
Durham, n c., April %
Gen. A. ID. Cowles. Adiutant General
Company ID. Third Regiment. vii
be ready when called.
J. C. NICHE,
Captain.
The Henderson company was equally
MI ola i'm
Henderson, n. c., April %.
Gen. A. ID. Cowles. Adjutant General
General order number one received
and will be obeyed at once.
=. T.. JONES,
Captain Go. C. Third Regiment.
The Queen City Guards of Charlotte
wired as follows:
Charlotte, \. c., April -.
Gen. A. ID. Cowles. Adjutant General
Telegram received. Am making every
effort to recruit to full strength. Hay,
opened recruiting office. Feel coniiden
can secure number designated.
III. S. CHADWICK,
Captain Company Il, 4th Regiment
The Concord and Winston companies
simply sent receipt for the order. sayins
the men would. meet at once to decide
about volunteering.
Col. F. III. Lybrook. of the Winston
company. is in Raleigh and says ne la,
no doubt the men in his company, al
most to Il man. will manifest their will
ingness to volunteer. And what is NOR,
he thinks another company could easil,
be raised in Winston-Salem.
As soon as the Adjutant Generals or
der was issued and the people of thu
city were informed of it by its hein;
posted on the News and Observer bulle
tin board. volunteers began to apply Il
Captain Crawford for enlistment in thu
Governors Guard. BY noon a dozeI
names had been handed in and las
night when the Guard met in the ar
mory and the enlistment books Were
opened twenty men were enlisted.
HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS.
But it is not only to the Captain o
the Governors Guards and other com
panies of the State that men are comm;
to enlist. Every mail brings the Govern
or stacks of letters from patriots anx
ious TO fight under the flag in Cuba o
anywhere they may be ordered.
DR.. Warren Vines Hall, clerk to tn
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Raleigh
lends his services to the Governor t
serve as Lieutenant (having formerl.
served in similar capacity in thu
Guard of the State.)
Rev. j. j. Hines, Of Pollocksville
asks for a place as chaplain. He say
he served four years as chaplain in th
Confederate war and suppose my ex
perience is worth something, and j
your Honor needs chaplain in the wa
pending with Spain, | am at your ser
vice"
Chester j. Turner. Hillsboro, ask
the Governor if he will commission tn
officers in case he organizes II com
pany in Orange county. 'The boys ar
anxious to 20 to the front, but prefe
TO serve under our own officers
DIR. w. l.. Vestal, Cutler, applies TO
n position as physician and surgeon t
the hospital staff.
James Butler, Robersonyile, offer