The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-29
THEY RICHLY DESERVE IT
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL GIVES
THEM HIGH PRAISE.
WILL BE RElNSTATED IN THE GUARD
Colonel ArmheId win Be Colonel of the Second
Regiment, and Senior Colonel Of Guard
Captain Beavers to Command
Governors Guard.

With the return of the First North
Carolina regiment the State Guard will
practically be re-organized.
This will be particularly true as to
the present Second regiment, which is
the old Fourth, from which the First
North Carolina Volunteer regiment, just
returned from Cuba, was composed.
And it is the return and muster out
of the First regiment that will cause the
reorganization.
,ilhc boys" vol,nteeren when thei.
country said it was in need of men, They
laid aside business. babe friends good
bye and offered their services and their
lives in defence of the flag.
They have done their duty well and
faithfully, aye, heroically, and they have
not been forgotten. Even their old
places in the State Guard have been re-
served for them, and they Will be wei
coined back as citizen, and as soldiers as
well.
While it was necessary for the pro-
lection and welfare of the State to re-
organize those of the Guard who did
not volunteer, and to form new COM
panies. it has been done remembering
that the brave boys of the First
would return some day and would be
disappointed to find that their places had
been filled in th.ir absence.
In admitting the western companies
into the Guard this has all along been
kept in mind Only one of tbs field Off
GERS of the new Second regiment-w which
a.. 3i,a Ill !,
has been filled The colonel, the lieuten
ant colonel, two majors. a surgeon and
staff positions are all held for the re-
turn of the old Guardsmen now in
the First volunteer regiment.
OF course Col Arinfield will become
It's colonel and the other vacancies also
will be filled from the First regiment.
And under them the new Second will lla-
doubtedly become the crack regiment of
the State.
These officers VIII rank just as if
they had never gone out of the Guard
into active United States service-the
date of their old commissions being re-
vived in case their old grade is retained.
Where new companies have been
formed every possible effort will be
made by the Adjutant General and b,
Major Davis to amalgamate the old and
the new companies. In doing this the
companies VIII not at first be limited
TO the usual sixty in number.
The only obstacle to this large number
in the companies is that but sixty III
each company can be equipped until
after July LIST, when the State apropTia-
tion will be available This difficulty
is, however, fortunately one that can
be easily overcome, as the returning sol
diers will retain their uniforms, and
arms can be supplied them.
In places where no new companies
have been formed the First regiment
companies viii of course drop into their
old places.
An especially strong effort will be made
nv the authorities to reorganize the Gov
ewnor's Guard Of this city, by amalga-
nation of the old and new elements on
grounds of equity. This, 1t is believed,
will not now be Il hard matter, Capt.
Atkins having resigned and the election
Of Cant. Beavers as his successor being
practically certain.
1t will be the aim of all concerned
to make it-as it should be-the crack
company of the State.
The old Governors Guard will, on its
return here from Cuba. be met at the
station by the new Governors Guard
and escorted to the armory. They will
be honored as brave soldiers of great
country as well as honored citizens OF
this fair city.
rhe .boys" on their homecoming
should be given similar reception in
every town in the State that has a
company in the First regiment. They
have done their duty bravely and wei
these soldiers-and the people should