Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-05-02
IT'S SETTLED.
The New Regiment which is to
go From This State is
Selected.

the Goose hangs high-W. j. White,
/ Of Norgant0Wn, is to be Regimental
j Adjntani- Col. Smith Gets Com
mand--rhe Companies which are to
i Compose the New regiment MIST of
i the officers from here will have 10
return n there is no place for them.
All the Cadet officers are left out.
The recruits necessary to fiji up the
j Companies will be taken from the
] towns in which the Companies are
Located This lets the men here who
Volunteered to go into the Ciarksburg
Company have Il Chance to go
CHARLESTON, W. VA, May 1.-The
difficulty in regard to the commanding
officers of the new regiment Of West
/ Virginia troops to be organized to
serve in the war with Spain having
been at last satisfactorily arranged,
the work Of recruiting and filing out
the regiment will now go on briskly
and will be completed within one or
two weeks. The work of enrolling the
volunteers was begun yesterday, and
the result was very complimentary to
the national guardsmen. There were
eighteen commissioned officers and two
hundred and sixty men who volun-
teered from the First regiment, and
eighteen commissioned officers and
two hundred and tifty-fve men out of
the Second regiment, making a total
of thirty-siX officers and five hundred
and tffty-one men. 1t is thought
that at least fifty more men will vol
unteer tomorrow. making
SIX HUNDRED MEN
in all. which is just half enough for
the new regiment. There are five
hundred and twenty-eight men in the
First regiment of the state militia,
aud five hundred and flfty-eight in
the Second regiment showing that
only a little more than half of the
men have volunteered Those who
have fully decided not to volunteer
have been sent home, the state paying
the expense of the return trip. At
least six hundred new men must be
secured to recruit the regiment, and
for this purpose it is probable that
RECRUITING OFFICES
will be at once opened at several
points in the state.
The officers of the new regiment
have been made up as follows: Cen
eral Spillman will be colonel of the
regiment, and Col. Clarence L. Smith
will be lieutenant colonel; Col. Banks
of the Second regiment, and Lieut..
Col. Shaffer of the first regiment, will
be reduced to majors; Lieut.. Col.
Lyon, Major White and Major Morri-
son will be reduced TO captains. The
battalion organization of the new reg
iment will then be- First battalion,
companies A, of Bluefeld; B, of Bis
sell; G, of Huntington; X, of Clarks-
burg, to be commanded by Col. Smith.
Second battalion, companies A, of FL
kiDs; e, of Martinsburg; |, of Charles
Town, and |, Of Huntington, to be
commanded by Major Banks. Third
battalion, companies B, Of Mounds
vile; G, of Ansted; ID, of Berkeley
1 Springs, and E, of Parkersburg, to be
commanded by Major Shaffer. The
/ battalion commanders are arranged
according to their rank in
THE OLD REGIMENTS,
and the battalicns are made up ac-
cording to the seniority of service of
their respective captains.
| The Second regiment band refused
to volunteer, and they have returned
to Huntington.
The work of putting the volunteers
through their physical examination
will probably be begun tomorrow
COL. sPILLMAN's STAFF
has now been fully arranged as fol-
lows: Adiutant, William J. White,
OF Morgantown; quartermaster, H. w.
Jenkins, of Huntington: chief sur
geon, H. B. Baguley, of Wheeling;
assistant surgeons, G. Gillian, of
Ansted, and G. L. Nesbitt, of Fair
mont; sergeant major, Phil g. Wal
ker, of Charleston; quartermaster
sergeant, S. w. Poe, of Grafton; chief
musician, e. Lindesmann, of Hunt
ington; chief trumpeter, to be ap-
pointed; hospital stewards, George M.
Boyce and Charles Crider. The COM
panies composing the new regiment
have been remembered and are locat-
ed as follows: A at Huntington; B
| at Bluedeld; G at Bissell d at
Clarksburg; E at Elkins; f at Hunt
ington; G at Charles Town; FL at
Martinsburg; at Berkeley Springs;
K at Ansted: L at Parkersburg, M at
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