The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-13
Over the News That the First Regiment is
Going to ~Chickamauga.
THE SOLDIERS IN FINE SPIRITS
Instructions to Rush the First Regiment. Wanted 1t Chickamauga as
Soon rs Possible.- Wilmington Company Lacking Only Two
Men.-B. F. Dixon Appointed Maior--HeaIth of the
Camp Good.-First Company of Second Regiment
Mustered n-O Officers Appointed for the
Negro Battalion.

companies. All companies of the
states quota will have to be reduced
to the minimum. The question as to
whether the officers of any organiza-
ton shall be white or black is DETER
mined by the governor alone"
Governor Russell tonight appointed
3. F. Dixon, of Shelby, major of the
Second battalion of the Second regi-
ment of volunteers. Colonel Burgwyn,
Of that regiment, appoints Robert Lii
ly Gray, Of Raleigh, regimental adju-
tant.
TO GO TO CHICKAMAUGA.
The governor has received tonight
from the war department a letter say
ing that it is desired that the First
regiment shall go to Camp Thomas,
at Chickamauga, as soon as it is arm
ed and clothed n tentage arrives.
The adjutant general says he CONSTITUTES
this to mean that the regiment must
be equipped with these things by the
government at this point before it
moves.
1t is not quite sure that Captain
Gladstone, of the Reidsville company,
will be able to secure the required
men to get in the Second regiment and
Henderson,, which also has a state
guard company, promises to have the
required number of men. The Hull
bill gives preference to guard COM
panies, and as the Henderson COM
pany volunteered sometime ago, it's
claim cannot be overlooked, as there is
no discretion given the adjutant gen.
eral until the guard companies are
exhausted. The adjutant general may
present a volunteer company if it is so
disposed, numbering seventy-three, to
the surgeons to be examined by them
for a hospital corps, instead of waiting
for individual volunteers . This SER
vice is considered a preferred one in the
army. He will be pleased to receive ap-
plicatiOns by companies for his SER
vice. ...>- .SsJs.d
AT 1880 o'clock tonight the adjutant
general expresses the belief that it
will be at least a week before the First
regiment can get away, as no advices
as to arms and clothing for it are yet
received. He says the
wants the regiment rushed and wants
the Second regiment rushed also as
son as the First regiment is out of the
way. He declares he does not believe
the Second regiment will be stationed
along the coast. His views and those
of army officers here appear to conflict
as regards the speedy movement of the
First regiment, as they evidently ex-
pect it's quick departure.
The following are said to be the Off
ceds of the negro battalion of volun-
teers: Major, James H. Young, Of Ra-
leigh; assistant urgeon, T. r. Mask,
of Wilmington; adjutant-; captain if
Company A, c. S. L.. A. Taylor; lieuten-
ants, William o. Still and James Gra-
ham,, of Charlotte company; captain,
James E. Hamlin, Raleigh; first lieu
te David Sasser, Wilmington; Sec
oil lieutenant, Philip Haywood, Ra-
leigh company; Captain, Andrew J.
Haywood, of Raleigh; first lieutenant,
James Dudley, of New Bern; second
lieutenant, Henry Christmas, of Ra-
leigh.
Large numbers of Odd Fellows ar
rived today to attend the grand lodge
tomorrow, among them Grand Master
J.. P. Sawyer, of Asheville.
Among the arrivals today were Chas.
M. Stedman, Greensboro; E. H. Gran
mer, Southport; William L. Smith, Will
mington.