The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-07-12
LEXINGTON, S. c.. WEDNESDAY,, JULY II, 1899
Men and officers for the New
Army.

Msn dUU S1IICsSS 1OS t4s S>sw
Army.
Order for Enlistment of Volunteers
Issued Yesterday.
Plan For Thirteen Regiments
Where the Ten to Organize in Z.
S. Will Rendezvous-The States
Expected to Fill Certain Regi-
ments.
Washington, July 6.-The order
for the enlistment of volunteers for
service in the Philippines was pub
lished today and seven more colonels
to command the regim ents were ap-
pointed. There are yet two colonels
to be designated. Eight majors also
were named. The recruiting will
not begin until some time next week,
the exact date not having been fixed
yet.
Recruiting stations will be opened
in every State and territory, and as
fast as the men are enlisted they
will be sent to the regiments to be
assigned to companies. State lines
are obliterated, and the men first en-
listing will be first to be mustered in.
The assignment to companies will be
by the officer commanding and he
will be at liberty to organize a COM
pany composed of men from one
State if he finds it convenient and
practicable. The organization of the
ten regiments in this country will
not make any difference to the or
ganization Of regiments in the Phil
pines by Gen. Otis. His regiments
will be addition to those hereafter to
be known as the Twenty-sixth to
Thirty fifth, inclusive, and will be
numbered Thirty sixth upward. It
is expected that three regiments
will be organized in the Philippines.
The regiments organized in the
United States and the Philippines
will increase the army by $50 off,
GERS and 1867 men, if there should
be three full regiments formed by
Gen. Otis.
The colonels appointed today are
under orders to proceed at once with
the organization of the regiments.
Some of the officers are now in the
city and have been consulting the
different bureau officers with regard
to equipment and supplies for the
men as they join the regiments.
War Department,
Washington, July 9Th, 1899.
by direction of the President,
the following general rules are pre-
scribed for recruiting from the coun-
try at large, United States volun-
teers as provided by the act of con-
gress approved March 2, 1899, pub
lished in general orders No. 36 of
1899, headquarters Of the army, ad-
iutant generals cfice, and for organ
izing the same into regiments:
The strength of regiments, officers
and enlisted men will be as provided
for by sections and II of the act of
congress approved March 2, 1899.
The regiments to be organized in
the United States will be designated,
26!b, 27;h. 2Sth, 29:h, 30:b, 31st,
32l, 33d, 34th and 35th regiments Of
infantry United States volunteers.
"Of the commissioned officers to
be appointed for each of these regi-
ments the field and staff officers, in
cluding medical officers and captains
of companies, will be assembled at
regimental rendezvous, as hereafter
designated, for the purpose of theo-
retical ard practical instruction in
organization, military administration,
drill regulations, discipline, hygiene,
camp sanitation, etc. Daily instruc.
ton in the nomenclature, care and
assembly Of parts CT the rifle and
target practice will be special
feature Of instruction of both officers
and men.
"Applicants for commissions, ex-
cept officers CT the regular army, will
be required to pass satisfactory e1-
animation as to age, moral, mental
and physical fitness, and capacity to
command troops, and must have had
service during the Spanish American
war.
"Jhe recruiting service Of the reg
ular army will be charged with re-
cruiting 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