The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
SEVEN MORE COLONIES
Order for Enlistment of Volun-
teers Published.
STATIONS IN EVERY STATE
Montana Men Will Join the Saith Repi
ment-Oficers Are at Liberty to
Organize Entire Companies
in Each State.

service in the Philippines was publish
ed to-day and seven more colonies to
command the regiments were appoint
ed. There are yet two colonls 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. Recruit
Ing stations will be opened in every state
and territory. and 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 enlsting will be first to be mus
tered in. The assignment to companies
will be by the officer commanding and
he will be at liberty to organize COM
pany comprised of men from one state
if he finds it convenient and practical
BILE
The organization of the 10 regiments
in this country will not make any diff
ference in the organization of reg-
ments in the Philippines by General
Otis. His regiments will be in addi-
ton to those hereafter to be known as
the 26th to 35th inclusive and will be
numbered from the 36th upward. 1t is
expected that three regiments will be
organized in the Philippines, the regi-
1nents organized in the United States
and the Philippines increasing the
army by $50 officers and II, $3.50 men if
there should be three full regiments
formed by General Otis.
s The colonies appointed to-day 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 bu-
reau officers with regard to equipment
and supplies for the men as they join
the regiment.
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War Department, Washington. July
5, lS93.-By the direction of the presi-
dent, the following general rules are
prescribed for recruiting from the coun-
try at large United States volunteers
as provided for by the act of congress.
approved March g 1899. published in
general orders No. &c of 1899. headquar-
tiers of the army. adjutant generals
office, and organizing the same into
regiments:
The strength of regiments, officers
and enlisted men viii be as provided for
by sections and Il of the act of con-
gress approved March Q, 1899.
The regiments to be recruited in the
United States will be designated Goth,
27th, 2sth. 2sth. 3oth, 3lst, s2nd.s 33rd.
sam and S5th regiments of Z. S. V. OF
commissioned officers to be appointed
for each of these regiments, the field
and staff officers, including medical on
GERS and captains of companies, win be
assembled at regimental rendezvous as
hereinafter designated for the purpose
of theoretical and practical instruction
in organization military administra-
ton. drill regulations, discipline, hy-
giene, camp sanitation. etc.
Daily instruction in the uomencla-
ture, care and assembly of parts of the
rife and target practice will be a spe-
eial feature Of instruction of both Off
GERS and men.
Applicants for conif1Iissionsl except
officers of the regular army, will be re-
CURED to pass satisfactory examina-
ton as to age, moral mental and ply
steal capacity to command troops and
must have had service during the Span
sh-American war. The recruiting ser
vice of the regular army will be charg-
ed with the recruiting from the coun-
try at large men for service in these
volunteer regiments, whose enlistments
Will be made for the period ending
June 30, 1901, unless sooner discharged
and without restrictions as to citizen
ship or educational qualifications, but
In all other respects under the same
rules and regulations as are prescribed
for recruiting the regular service.
Except in special cases only unmar-
ried men will be enlisted for these regi-
ments.
In view of the probable severe SER
vice of these regiments and the climatic
conditions to which they may be sub
both officers and enlisted men is of the
first Importance. Only those fully quail
flied will be appointed or enlisted. The
lieutenants and two of the medical of
ficers of each regiment will. as far as
practicable. be assigned to duty as as
sistants to recruiting officers of the reg
ular army.
Upon arrival of recruits at the regi-
mental rendezvous, the commanding
officers of regiments will assign them to
compa MES and the appointment and re-
: duction of regimentaI 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 so organized will, for
the purpose of discipline and supply, be
subject to the orders of the command
ing general of the district in which the
rendezvous is located and the regimen
tai comma nder will report by telegraph
to the adjutant general on his arrival
at the rendezvous. The regiments of
infantry, United States Volunteers, will
be organized as follows:
'Twenty-sixth at Plattsburg bar
racks, New York; 9th at Camp Meade,
Pa: 2Sth at Camp Meade, Pa. 18th at
Fort Mcpherson, Ga; S0th at Fort
Sheridan. ILL.,; 31st at Fort Thomas,
KY; Sand at Fort Leavenworth, Kas. ::
33rd at Fort Sam Houston. Texas; 34th
at Fort Logan, Col; 35th at Vancouver
barracks, Washington.
'R. A. ALGER, Secretary Of War"
The regiments will be enlisted accord
ing to the provisions of the act of
March 2 1899, and will consist of so Off
GERS and !, 800 men each.
The president has appointed the fol-
lowing colonies of the volunteer regi-
ments: Major James w. Bell, LIST cav
airy: Captain James S. Petit, LIST in
fantry better known as colonel of the
list immunes;" Edward f. Hardin, who
was colonel of the End New York vol
unteers in the war with Spain; Captain
j.. A. Craig, 9th cavalry; Captain Luz
Their H. Hare, 9TH cavalry; Major Will
lam A. Kobbe. Captain Cornelius Gard
ner, 18th infantry. The assignment of
the volunteer colonies to regiments will
be as follows:
Twenty-sixth. Rice; 9th, Bell; 2Sth,
Petit: 29th. Hardin; 30th. Gardner;
32nd, Craig; 23d, Hare; 35th, Kobbe.
The man designated for lieutenant