The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22
The President Calls for
More Troops.
1HB VOLUNTEER ARMY
To De Increased 60 Thirty Thousand
Soidiers-The New Levy VIII Raise
the Army TO Ninetv-hve Thousand
en- Within Five thousand OF the
Maximum Designated by Congress.
The South Entirely Ignored in his
Call for Troops

"a IN tuI0
q l for Troops
washington, August 17.-Ar order
has been issued directing that ten adj
dft1onal regiments OF infantry volun-
teers be organized for service in the
Philippines. The regiments will be
numbered from thirty-eight to forty
seven and will be organized at the fol-
lowing places, in the order named:
Fort Smelling, Minnesota; Fort Crook,
Nebraska; Camp Meade, Pennsylvania;
Fort Niagara, New York; Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas; Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri; South birmingham, Massa-
chusetts; Camp Meade, Pennsylvania
and Fort Ritley, Kansas.
1t appears from today's orders that
the ten new regiments are to be mainly
recruited in New England and the mid
die and central western states. kansas
and Pennsylvania have apparently been
selected as the best fields for recruits.
1t is said that no special effort is to
be made to secure recruits in the south
ern states. This is due, it is said, to
the experience of the officers who oper-
ated in that quarter for recruits for
the ten volunteer regiments just now
being organized. The only places
where difficulty wa experienced in Sc
curing men was in Georgia and Ala
bama, the Carolinas and the gulf states
and the two northwestern Pacific states.
Today's action will add $1,000 men
to the enlisted strength of the army
and increases the total strength Of the
army to 95,045 men. The total number
Of volunteers called into service is
30,109 men, being only 1888 men short
of the total authorized volunteer estab"
lishment of 5000. 1t is stated at the
department. that the number of vOlu-
teers already called into service is re-
garded as amply sufficient to meet all
possible needs of the army and that
there is no possibility that the remain
ing 1898 volunteers will be called for.
Yesterdays recruiting for the volun-
teer army amounted to 289 men, max
ing the total recruitment to date 14,122,
or 1892 in excess of the number re-
CURED to complete the ten regiments or
ganized under the orders of July 9Th.
All of these regiments have secured
their full quota, except the Twenty
ninth regiment, at Fort Mcpherson,
Ca; the Thirty-third, at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, and the Thirty-fifth
at Vancouver barracks. These three
regiments will be filled by the use OF
4Io oxyoraour fro~, Aho ronro CJIna0cCf111
regiments. The remainder of the eX
cess will be used in filing the volunteer
| regiments being slowly organized in the
Philippines, which are about 500 men
short.
The colonies of the new regiments
are announced as follows:
Thirty-eighth-Joe S, Sanderson, ma
| jor of Sixth cavalry.
Thirth- ninth-R. l.. Billiard, captain
in subsistence department.
Fortieth-E. A. Goodwin, captain OF
Eighth cavalry
Forty-frst-E. TIC. Richmond, cap
tain of Second artillery.
Forty-second-J. NJ. Thompson, ma
jor of Twenty fourth infantry.
Forty-third-Arthur Murray, captain
of First artillery.
Forty-gourth-E. J.. McClerenden
captain of Second cavalry.
Forty-ffth-J. H. Dorst, captain O
Fourth cavalry.
Forty-sixth-W. S. Schuyler, captain
of Fifth cavalry.
Forty-seventh-Walter Howe, cap
tain of Fourth artillery.
The new regiments will be organized
under the general instructions issuet
at the time the first ten regiments wer'
called out.
With the thirteen regiments alread!
| called into service, the ten ordered to
day will make a total OF 10000, IL
round numbers, of the $4,000 volun
teeTs authorized.