The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-12
Morehead City, Greenboro
and AsheviIIe Win Out.
ALL SOLDIERS GET PAID
Each Company Must Have Seyeniy-fye Per
Cent Present and the Governor Will Re-
yitw All the Regiments During
The Encampnien'.

6ncaulp Is SettleQ.
Yesterday the announcement was made
and the lucky places named where the sol
diers will meet are Morehead City, Green's
boro and Asheville.
During the encampment the officers and
enlisted men will receive the same pay
that is given to officers and men of the
same grade in the regular army.
This payment is for five days to each
man, and the rate each day is as follows:
Colonel, III; Lieutenant Colonel, 1888;
Major, 1854; Captain, $500; First Lieu
tenant, $4.17; Second Lieutenant. $3.50;
First Sergeant, SO 1-3 cents; Sergeant, SO
cents; Corporal, SO cents; Privates, 43 1-3
cents. In each regiment there are, all told,
about 600 men.
The First Regiment and Battery A en-
camp at Asiieville, August 10 to % and the
place selected is about a mile from the
town The regiment consists of the fol-
lowing companies: A-Fayetteville, B.
Goldsboro, C-Winston, D-Charlotte.
E-Statesville, baskerville G-Shelby,
H-Waynesville, Durham, baskerville
L-Concord, M-Lexington, Battery A.
Charlotte. In charge is Colo
mel T. r. Robertson, of Charlotte, assist
ed by Lieutenant Colonel Geo. e. Butler,
of Clinton.
The Second Regiment encamps at More
head City July % to %, about a mile from
the Atlantic Hotel The regiment is COM
posed of the following companies: A-Tar
boro B-Kinston, Wilmington, D.
Goldsboro, E-Raleigh. F-Hertford, G.
Washington, H-Clinton, I-Edenton, X
Wilson, L-(vacant). M--Maxton. Col. H.
C. Bragraw, of Washington is in charge,
with Lieutenant Colonel T. C. James, of
Wilmington.
The Third Regiment encamps at Green's
boro August to II, at Lindley Park. The
companies in the regiment are: A-Salis-
bury, B-Raleigh, C-Henderson, Dur
ham, E-Oxford, F-Franklinton, G.
Reidsville, H-Warrenton, burlington,
K-Mount Airy, L-Greensboro, M-San-
ford. The officers are Col. ]. N. Craig.
Reidsville; Lieutenant Colonel S. w.
Minor, Oxford.
During the encampments instruction will
be given to the soldiers by Major f. H.
French, of the Sixteenth Infantry, United
States Army, who has been detailed for
that duty. The regiments will be reviewed
at some time during the encampments by
Governor Aycock, while Inspector General
Balm viii visit and inspect each camp
during the encampment.
The soldiers will be uniformed for field
service, wearing the khaki brown. Re-
QUESTION was made yesterday for magazine
rifles for the troops, these to be of thirty
calibre
The full details of the three encamp-
ments is set forth in the following order,
issued by the Adjutant General of the
State.
Raleigh, July II, 1903.
General Order No. Is.
/. The annual encampment of the North
Carolina National Guard, for the current
year, Will be held by regiments at the fol-
lowing times and places:
Second Regiment. July 22nd to 2Sth,
both inclusive, at Morehead City.
Third Regiment, August 9Th to 18th,
both inclusive, at Greensboro.
First Regiment and Battery A, August
18th to 18th, both inclusive, at Asheville.
:. Each company is required to attend
camp with at least seyenty-five per cent
of its muster roll. and failure of any
company in this respect will deprive it
3. The wearing of citizens clothing by
officers and men while in camp will be
prohibited. and company commanders will
not permit their men to carry unnecessary
baggage. No arms, except such as are
issued to the troops by the State, will be
allowed in camp.
4. Tents, fuel, ice, straw, subsistence
lights, cooking utensils and medicine will
be supplied to the troops free of cost, and
ample kitchens and mess halls will be pro-
yided
5. Officers will subsist themselves, kit
chens. cooking utensils and mess halls will
be provided Mounted officers are required
to furnish their horses.
6. The Quarter-master General is charged
with the transportation of the troops to
and from camp, and he will arrange the
same so as to reach camp not later than
$50 o'clock p. IN. on the day named for
each regiment to go into camp. vouch-
ers for transportation will be furnished
by the QuartermasterGene
T. The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with the
assistance of the chief of engineers and
Regrmental QuartermasteE. will prepare
the camp grounds, erect tents, quarter the
troops, construct rife ranges and pro
vide the necessary conyeniences for the
use and comfort or the troops.
s. Regimental commanders will order a
detail of two men from each company to
report to their Regimental Quartermasters
at places designated for the camps, al
least two days prior to the day named fol-
holding the eneampment of their respec.
tive regiments.
8. The Inspector of Small Arms Practice
will cooperate with and aid the Quarter
master-General in the construction of ths
rife ranges. and he will attend the en-
campment of each regiment for the pur.
pose of giving instruction in the work O
his department.
10. The camp of each Regiment will b,
under the command and direction of ii
commanding officer, and he will be helt
responsible for the discipline and worl
of the same.
H. The Surgeon General is charged wit
the care of the sick. the hospitals an
general sanitary condition of the camp
and surroundings and all surgeons and hos
pital stewards, Immediately upon thei
arrival at camp, will report to him TO
orders and instruction. He will also sc