The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-27
THREE IN TIE FIRST REGIMENT
REFUSE.
AND ONE IN THE FOURTH REGIMENT
The GoIdsboro Rifles Have Reconsidered their
Action and viii be Here with their
Eighiy-Four Men When the Other
Companies Arrive.
Companies Arrive.

tho order TO find out how many of their
men would volunteer and to recruit 70
"a men.
At 6 o'clock last night Il companies
had been heard from. OF these, - say
they are ready Ito go anywhere anu
in a few days they will have the neces-
sary "a men in their ranks; say they
viii not volunteer to leave their state.
The companies ready to go wherever
The flag leads and duty calls are:
Governors Guard, Raleigh.
Hornets Nest Rifiemen, Charlotte.
Durham Light Infantry, Durham.
Vance Guards. Henderson.
Granville Grays, Oxford.
Queen City Guards, Charlotte.
Cleveland Guards, Shelby.
.Asheville Light Infantry. Asheville
Richland Rifles, Waynesville.
Reidsvile Light Infantry. Reidsyille. !
Goldsboro Rifles. Goldshoro.
Pitt Rifles. Greenville.
Signal Corps. Concord:
This is more than a sufficient number
Of companies to form one regiment. ~
tonight. no doubt, the twenty compah-
les required for the two regiments called
for by the President will have 2oiGr-
teered.
Cant. Balm, of the Goldsboro company.
was here yesterday and said his COM
pany would go. and that he would at
once open recruiting office and he haa
no doubt he would be ready to come to
Raleigh with full company when the
order is sent out The first decision
that the company would not go, he said,
was reached without a full understand
ing of the conditions and circumstances
of the call.
Other companies refusing yesterday
were the Edgecombe Guards, Scotland
Neck Riflemen, Washington Light In
fantry and one company in the west
whose name could not be obtained. Ii
is believed that they. like the Goldsboro
company. will reconsider their action
when they fully understand the situa-
ton.
1t is difficult TO imagine a much
husier place that the Adjutant General 5
Office these days.
Everybody is interested in the State
troops, when they will be called out.
where they will be modified. how long
they will be in camp and what will lac
their destination when they leave. And
SO everybody goes to the Adjutant Gen
eral 10 find out That is why his Office
is crowded from morning till night.
Then there are letters-stacks OF
thcm-fronl all sections of the State
and nearly all States of the Union; peo-
ple offering their services for the war.
A few of them are willing to serve ~
privates, but most of them apply for po-
sitiOns of one sort and another-ch,tp-
lains, surgeons. nurses and commits
stoned officers of various grades. Many
also ask permission 70 raise new COM
panies.
All these are turned over to the Al
infant General 10 he answered and III
tended 10 as occasion may arise for the
services of the writer's of the letters.
In this connection it might be stated
that the present officers in the North
Carolina volunteers are sufficient in num-
Der to double the amount of men likely
to be called into the United States ser
vice. therefore. the Governor has no
commissioned offices at his disposal. All
troops that are likely 10 be called out
by the Governor are fully provided with
officers.
1t is likely also, il one may judge by
The way in which companies are volun-
teering, that there will he no necessity
for the formation of additional military
organizations, unless n very much larger
additional demand is made upon the
State. Companies should be formed.
though, as a home guard to be called
into service while the old companies are
serving the United States.
Good men. who really wish to serve
under their country rs priyates, will
find welcome awaiting them in nearly
all the existing companies of North
Carolina volunteers. Only men com
posing companies that volunteer to go
anywhere they may be ordered" will he
accepted under the Presidents call
and each officer ana man will be sub
jcct TO a medical examination.
The number of chaplains and sur
geons TO be appointed is very small
All applications received are placed oil
file and will receive due consideration
each application standing upon its me"-
it's.
n new company has been formed Mt
Washington, y. c.. with w. Crow Rod
man as captain. The Adjutant General
last night received telegram announc-
ing this fact and asking for Instructions.
Raleigh is also forming another com
pany ito go anywhere" The enlistment
books for it were opened by Mr.. Fred
W0OllcOtt at the shop of Mr.. George n.
Walters yesterday morning and during
the day fifteen names were taken.
Then there is Greensboro, with Mr..
Percy Gray getting up a company. He
came TO Raleigh yesterday morning to
see the Adjutant General in regard to
the matter and to obtain enlistment
blanks. He will this morning open an
enlistment office and hopes to have the
necessary number enrolled by the time
the Governor calls for troops
Thomas III. Briggs. Jr., formerly Of
Raleigh, but now of Elizabeth City, asks
permission to form volunteer company
of 100 men in Pasquotank, Camden and
Currtuck counties.
DIR. james A. Turner. High Point
wants to he surgeon.
Ernest Julian and Fred Cauble, Sal.
isbury. offer TO volunteer.