The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-15
THE NATIONAL GUARD REGISTER.
1t Is Larger Than Usual. and Has Moro
Regiments and Changes Than Heretofore.

THE NATIONAL GUARD REGISTEI
1t Is Larger Than Usual. and Has Nor
Regiments and Changes Than Heretofore.
The National Guard Register OF this State
just issued from Albany. is much more inter
esting than it Is usually. There has been
war since the Register was issued last year
the National Guard. having been reorganized
was disorganized by the war. and is now fl
process OF reorganization and there hav,
been lots OF changes and shuflings as q result
OF all that has happened.
To begin with, the Register Is a big book thil
year: It contains 4O2 numbered pages and
lot of new matter. Opening the book one find:
that the Governors staff Tin the old sense o
the expression) has been herded together b,
itself. away from the real National Guard. and
has its own table OF rank and its own casualty
list. After that comes the National Guard
For the first time in twelve years the Guard is
headed by a Major-General. Gen. Roe. Imme-
diately after him come his staff. or rather
places for the members OF 1t. for. as the Regis
ter is dated Dec. Is. most Of the staff appoint
ments do not appear In 1t. Though the staff OF
tho Major-General commanding seems quite
vacant. yet in fact there Is no vacancy on 1t.
After the Major-General and his staff come
the five brigade Generals. each with his own
staff. In the former registers the names of
the staff officers appeared in the beginning OF
the book. each staff after its chief. and then all
the staff officers Of the entire State werelumped
together in order of rank; now each brigads
staff is by itself. and a table at the end Of the
book gives the lineal rank Of all officers. Gen.
Butt of the First Brigade has three vacancies
on his staff; Gen. McLeer OF the Second has
one only; Gen. Oliver of the Third has four:
Gen. Doyle of the Fourth and Gen. Smith %
the Fifth Brigade have six each.
The new Register shows the century" or
Plantations. which some persons think have
done as much as anything else to disorganize
the National Guard. The Troop &C is tho first
OF these precious and costly things. 1t was all
right 80 far as 1t went. On Dec. Is it had one
officer. Then we find the First, Second and
Third regiments; the officers Of these are to
be oun principally under the various sep
arate companies out Of which the regiments are
formed. The Third Regiment is like the famous
First Provisional Regiment. that Col. A. s. Ba-
con commanded for so many years. That regi-
ment had only one officer. and the Third has
only one. He is the surgeon-Major. Hav-
ing been commissioned rs such before the
regiment entered the United States service. he
retains his commission. though the regiment
has been resolved into Its component parts, A
humorous thing about this officer is, that ne
was commissioner In q regiment raised to vol
unteer. and then didn't volunteer himself.
The Seventh stands where it has stood for so
long. at the head Of the list; for the three reRi-
ments just named are not really more than
paper organizations as yet. Then come the
Eighth and its shadow. the 1Uothi the latter
had a roster Of twenty-lv We officers. The Ninth's
112th hadtwenty officers. Among them is I found
the name of the most mysterIous person in the
appeared as one of Gov. Roosevelt's aides, and
especially as one taken from the, National
B BIPaTd; fns tafssar ssaR in a9e 1Han mARd Sh iDs Tas
nihcance beside the question: Who Ia Lyle
tional Guard aide on the Governors staff. but
Great preparations are visible in the book to
welcome back the Thirteenth, At present the
hssist sHa s saqrs consist ,Jar Of Mn Sot f tSsss and and
places left for every staff officer that a regi-
ment ought to have The Fourteenth Regi-
lished., Then comes the Twenty-second. with
ment. though it had a Colonel Ia retired officer
only six officers, Of whom two were line, The
Twenty-third. which some persons said had
ing the summer. comes next. then the Forty
and its shadow. the Sixty-ninth with its shadow
and the Seventy; first and its shadow. This
other century regiment: il had forty-one
officers and a real Organization. The Seventy
fo E9r ,h H. t6 6e. la tIm 5ss tbs names o, tbo nav b.t-
~ Nh' Ah-N NhAAAN SAS vi NAS bC NJuI-|
talions appear in the new Register, the Tenth
and it's shadow, the Eleventh. Twelfth. Six
teenth and Sevepteenth battalions. the last
separate companies. There are several cen
fury separates. but they are all up for disband-
ment. Then come the naval militia. almost
every officer in which served IN the navy during
the war. Then come tables giving the strengths
Of the Guard as a whole and by bEigades and
same way, a complete list OF the arnories. and
finally the army and navy pay tables. with the
law OF the State as to service pay for National
Guard officers. and the index crowns the book.
Following the custom set some years ago, a
short history Of each Organization precedes the
names OF its officers. and In those histories is
to be found r1iI 9 ne y and interesting point. TAX
one reads: 1T has authority to place
silver rings on the lances of its colors engraved
yoort. 1872; Fort Greene. 1872; Warrington.
,pwSS 1882; Gettysburg c@%psiFn, 1853: On
Riot, 1893: Great Fire NeT York city, 1915;
Dead Rabbit Riot, 1857; Sepoy Riot. 1853:
Camp, Corcoran Legion. 1852: Draft Riot,
1858: Orange. Riots, 1871; Syracuse, 1877;
Brooklyn. 8 The Seventh Is the only or,
does not seem to have asked for permission.