The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-12
THE ADJUrANT-GENERAL,s REPORT
The Last to Be Issued by an old!fime Ad-
jutant-What 1t Says.

The Last to Be Issued by n old-Time Ad-
jutant-What 1t Says.
The last report by an old-time Adjutant-
General of this State has been issued in ad-
vance sheets. but has not yet appeared In full
uniform and binding. 1t Is the second and
last report Of Q. Whitney Tillinghast H.. the
last Major-General.and Acknowledgement OF a
long line; with it ends the regime of personal
government in the National Guard Of this
State and.the reign OF law begins.
The report, to begin with. is a pretty good
history OF q certain part of the Spanish war.
that part taken by the State OF New York. 1t
is devoted almost entirely to that:war. the
happenings in the Guard previous to the Pres
dents call for volunteers on April 81 occupy
ing only Eve short paragraphs. Yet those
paragraphs tell in brief Of the reorgani-
zation Of the Guard and the appointment
OF a permanent Major General and OF the
creation of a new brigade and of new
battalions and Of other things that are for
gotten in the rush OF wal. but are Just as well
to be remembered. ..-
The late Adjutant-G General says that the
State provided about $4,000 men to the army
and navy-thati is. about one-tenth of the total
number OF volunteers-a pretty good showing
for an nd State. He gives also brief histories
OF the various regiments that entered the VOL
unteer service. from which it is evident that
the old proverb about that one being happy
who had no history 10 quite:correct. The reRi-
ment that up to the time the report went to
press had the longest history certainly had the
unhappiest one.
With the history OF each volunteer organiza-
ton that had been mustered out on Dec. 81.
1893. Is given a list Of officers and men who
died In the.service. From these lists IL Is de-
ducible that IL officers and 264 men died in
the service. OF whom ii, all in one regiment,
Of wounds received In action. Of the total.
eral men were killed by trains, one or two
were struck by lightning and one was killed
In passing it may, be as well to soy that the
Twelfth keeps up In the volunteer service its
reputation acquired by years In the Guard as
a retiring. regiment: twenty-eiRht- officers re:
Dec. %. 1893. Nine of these were Captains
ana sight wsre First Lisutsnants.
Twosremarks In Gen.. Tillinghasts report are
likely TO be overlooked: the first refers to the
State camps. II c~onsists OF tslegrams sent In
Jupe 10 two Colonies: 80 " = The State ia
more anxious to pay than 10 easily imagined.
but the law will not permit i until complete
We are now working about thirty men en-
leavorinR TO correct vital errors made In pay
rolls submitted by officers In the field" Not
a single one Of your ES%srs company H,o ny payF0lls was aeon S95i
in the State Of New York that was correct"
The second remark IL. y, Gen. TillinGhast's
conclusion, as follows: The many-criticisms
made against the State authorities we're un-
misconceptions p%ersonal interests or POLITICAL
grounds. Gen. Tillinghast says that the
Guard will BE- better because Of its expert
this end Its higher officers must be spared
the public assaults which II has been the lot
Of many in the past to bear"