The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-13
WAR DFPARTMFNT.

/ OF infantry was lSSucu hthutNNdS ~
/ the secretary of war. The order is as
follows:
WAR DFPARTMENr.
WksHINGTON, July ). 1899 !
By the direction OF the president.
the following general rules are pre-
scribed FOR the recruiting from the
country at large, United States volun-
teers. as provided for by the act of
congress approved March >, 1899. pub
lished in general order No. S6, OF 1899.
headquarters of the army, adjutant
generals Office, and for organizing the
same into regiments:
The strength of regiments officers
ana enlisted men will bc as provided
for by Sections and IL OF the act Of
congress approved March >, 1899
The regiments to be organized in the
United States will be designated 96th.
9th, osth. Goth, 3Oth. 3lst, sd. SD.
34th and 35th regiments of infantry,
United States volunteers
OF the commissioned officers, 10 bc
appointed for each of these regiments
the field and staff officers, including
medical officers and captains OF com
panies, will be assembled at regimcntal
rendezvous as hereafter designated for
the purpose of theoretical and prac-
tical instruction in organization. mill
tary admins ration, drill regulations,
discipline, hygiene, camp sanitation.
etc. Daily instruction in the nomen-
clature, care and assembly of parts OF
the rifle and target practice will be
special feature OF instruction OF both
officers and men.
Applicants for commission exee-nt
officers of the regular army will
be required to pass satisfactory ex-
animation as to moral, mental and
physical capacity TO command tr' ops
and must have had service during the
Spanish-Amcrican war.
The recruiting service OF the regu-
lar army will be charged with recruit
ing from the country at large men for
service in these volunteer regiments
whose enlistments will be made for the
period ending June 80. 1901, unless
sooner discharged. and without restr.c'
tions as to citizenship or educational
qualifications. but in all other respects
under the same rules and regulations
as are Prescribed for +, cruiting the
regular service. Except in special
cases only unmarried men will be en-
listed for these regiments.
Upon arrival Of recruits at the rcgi-
mental rendezvous the commanding
officers OF regiments will assign them
to companies, and the appointment
and reduction of regimental and bat
talon. non-commssioned staff and
company non-commissioned officers
and other enlisted grades will be gov
erned by the law and army reguia-
tions.
Ten regiments of infantry, United
States volunteers, will be organized as
follows:
The 2G;h at Plattsburg barrack-,
y. y; eth at Camp Meade, Pa; 2S;h
at Camp Meade. Pa; 18th at Fort Nc
Pherson. Ga; 3Oth at Fort Sheridan,
H.: 3lst at Fort Thomac, Ky; 3?d at
Fort Leavcnworth, Kan; SD at Fort
sam Houston, Tex; Bath at Fort Lo-
gan. COL; S5th at Vancouver barracks
Wash. X. "A. AI.GER'
Secretary OF War.
The president has appointed the fol-
lowing co,onels of the yolunt er regi-
ments:
Maj James Bell, lst cavalry; Capt.
James s. Petit, lSt infantry, better
known as colonel of the ith immuneS;
Can't. Edward +. Hardin. who was coll
onel of the ID New York volunteers in
the war with Spain; Capt l.. a. Craig,
9th cavalry; Capt. Luther L. Hare, 9Th
cavalry; Maj Wm. a. kobbe' Capt
Cornelius Gardner, 10Th infantry.
The assignment Of the volunteer
colonels to regiments will be as fol-
lows:
T.enty-sixth, Rice; e7th- Bell; "sih,
Petit; 10Th. Hardin; 5Oth, Gardner;
ssd. Craig; SSi. Hare; S5th, kobbe.
The man designated for Lieutenant
colonel of the SSH regiment will or
panize it and take it to the Philip
pines, when Col kobbe will assume
command