The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-06
ORDER ISSUES
Ten New Regiments to Be Re-
cruited In United States.
Numbered From 26th to 35th
Inclusive.
EXCEPTING REGULARS
Officers Must Have Served In
Spanish War.
Term Of Enlistment Extends to
June 80, 1901.
EXCEPTING REGULARS

Washington, July 6-The order for
the enlistment of ten new regiments OF
infantry was issued today by the secre-
tary of war. It is as follows:
War Department, Washington, July45,
1899.
BY the direction of the president, thes
following general rules are prescribed
for recruiting from the country at
large, United States volunteers as pro-
Vided for by the act of congress APP
proved March 2, 1899, published in gen
eral orders No. SO, of 1899, headquarters
of the army, adjutant generals office
and for organizing the same into regl-
ments:
The strength of regiments. officers and
enlisted men will be as provided for by
sections and IL of the act of congress
approved March 2, 1899.
The regiments to be organized IN the
United States will be designated 26th,
9th, 2Sth, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 34th
and 35th regiments of infantry United
States volunteers.
OF the commissioned officers to be ap-
pointed for each of these regiments the
field and staff officers. including medI-
cal officers and captains Of companies
will be assembled at regimenta1 rem
devious as hereafter designated, for the
purpose of theoretical and practical II
struction in organization, military ad-
ministration, drill regulations, disci-
pline, hygiene, camp sanitation, etc
Daily instruction in the nomenclature,
care and assembly of parts Of the rifle
and target practice will be speclaI
feature of instruction OF borh ofncerS
and men.
Applicants for commissions, except Of
ficers of the regular army, Will be re
quired to pass a satisfactory examlna-
tiOn as to age, moral, mental ana phySl-
cal capacity to command troops and
must have had service during the Span
iSh-American war.
The recruiting service of the regular
army will be charged with recruiting
from the country at large, men for ser
vice in these volunteer regiments whose
enlistnents will be made for the period
ending June go 1901 unless sooner dis
charged, and without restrictions as to
citizenship, or educational Qualihca-
tions but in all other respects under the
same rules and regulations as are pre-
scribed for recruiting the regular SER
vice. Except in special cases only un-
married men will be enlisted for these
regiments.
In view of the probable severe service
of these regiments and the climatic
conditions to which they may be sub
jected the physical qualifications OF
both officers and enlisted men is of the
first Importance. Only those fully quail
ified will be appointed or enlisted.
The lieutenant colonel and two of the
medical officers of each regiment will,
as far as practicable be assigned to
duty as assistants to recruiting officers
of the regular army.
Upon arrival of recruits at the regi-
mental rendezvous the commanding Off
GERS of regiments will assign them to
companies and the appointment and re-
duction of regimental and battalion,
On-commissioned staff and company
non commissioned officers and other en-
listed grades will be governed by the
law and army regulations.
Each regiment organized will, for
purposes of discipline and supply, be
subject to the orders Of the command
ing general of the department in which
the rendezvous is located and the regi-
mental commander will report by tele-
,, 1a Il f9T rNf fT7sa
department on his arrival at the reg1-
mental rendezvous.
Ten regiments of infantry, United
States volunteers, will be organized as
follows:
Twenty-sixth at Plattsburg barracks,
New York; TWenty-seventh at Camp
Meade, Pennsylvania; Twenty-eighth
at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania; Twenty
ninth at Fort Mcpherson, Georgia;
Thirteenth at Fort Sheridan, Illinois:
Thirty-first at Fort Thomas, Kentucky;
Kansas; Thirty third at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas; Thirty-fourth at Fort
Logan, Colorado; Thirty-fifth at Van
couver Barracks Washington
r. A. ALGER, Secretary of War.
COLONELS SELECTED.
Washington, July 6.-The president
has appointed the following colonies of
the volunteer regiments:
Major James NJ. Bell, First cavalry.
Captain James S. Petit, First in
fantry, better known as colonel of the
Fourth immunes.
Captain Edward E. Hardy, who was
colonel of the Second New York Volun-
teers in the war with Spain
Captain L. A. Craig, Sixth cavalry.
Captain Luther r. Hare, Seventh cav
airy.
Major William Kobbe Captain
Cornelius Gardiner, Nineteenth infan-
try.
The assigned of the volunteer coIoneIs
to regiments will be as follows:
Twenty sixth, Rice; 9th, Bell; 28th,
Petit; 29th, Hardy; 3Oth, Gardiner;
32nd, Craig; 33rd, Hare; 35th, Kobbe
The man designated for lieutenant
colonel of the Thirty fifth regiment will
organize it and take it to the Philip
pines when Col. KObbe will assume
command.