The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
THREE REGIMENTS
GOING INTO CAMP
Second Goes TO Selma and the
Third to Mobile
BRANDON ISSUES ORDERS
Examining Board Reports Favorably
On Carl Seals and He Has
Been Commissioned
Major.
BRANDON ISSUES ORDERS

Montgomery. June 9.-(Special) THE
summer encampments of the Alabama
National Guard. so far as the infantry
goes, have been arranged. The First reg
iment, Col r. B. DuMont commanding,
and with headquarters in Mobile, will
camp with the regular army at Chicka-
manga park. running from the last days
of July to August 5. Tine Second will go
to Selma July for a week. and the Third
TO Mobile July 5.
The orders for the encampments of the
Second and the Third were issued to-
day, the governor acting on the recon-
mendations of Colonies Bricken and Nc
Elroy, respectively. Arrangements for the
encampment of the First were made sew
eral days ago. 1t is anticipated that the
work at Chickamauga will be of immense
benefit to the members of Colonel Du-
Monts force, 1t being one of the best
drilled organizations at this time In the
south.
The First regiment has twelve com
panies with 500 men. and is wonderfully
we'll equipped. Its officers are Col. r. B..
DuMont, Mobile Lieut.. Col. j. g. Hub
bard, Majors A. l.. Williams Dothan;
F. p. Folmer and John d. Hagan. Thad
Partridge of Mobile, is adjutant
The camp ground of the Second will be
ElAdaIe park, Selma The officers of the
regiment are C. R. Bricken, colonel, Mont
gomery; Lieut.. Col. j. e. Carter, Majors
E. F. Baber, Jr., G. o. Dickey, Carl Seals
w. w. Brame of Montgomery is adju-
tant. There are twelve companies with $50
men.
The Third regiment. Col W. II. NOEL
Aroy Admission, commanding, has only ten
companies with $50 men. 1t will have COM
Portable quarters at Mobile. An election
for two majors Is being held today, and
so far nothing is known further than that
Cant. Houston Smith of oxford will be
one of the new men. w. f. Johnson or
Admission is adjutant Hughes B. Kennedy
of Birmingham Is lieutenant colonel, and
for some time was in command of the
regiment
An examining board having reported fa-
vorably on the showing made by Maj.
Carl Seals of Birmingham, he has been
commissioned major of the Second to
succeed Maj John d. Elliott. also of Biz
mingham.
The General Order.
The general order Of the adjutant gem
eral is given below:
State of Alabama,
Office of Adjutant General
Montgomery, June ., 1906
General orders No. q
l. The Third regiment, infantry, Col.
William H. MoElroy commanding. A. N.
G., Is hereby ordered into the active SER
vice of the state fop the purpose of per-
fecting 1t In military discipline and drill,
and will GO into camp mean Mobile on
Thursday July 5, 1905
2. The Second resTnent, infantry, Col.
c. r. Bricken commanding, A. n. g. Is
hereby ordered into the active service OF
the state for the purpose of perfecting 1t
in military discipline and drill, and VIII
so into camp at Elkdale near Selma, en-
Monday, July 9, 1905.
g. The attention OF company command
ers is particularly called TO general or
ders No. IL, copy of which will be sent
by the regimental commanders and will he
rigidly enforced. The state will not be re-
sponsble for any bills whatsoever bver
| and above the sums allowed by law.
| a. The quartermaster general will fur
nish transportation to company command-
| ers. He will also furnish schedules or
| their departure from home stations. to-
| aether with routes of travel.
WILLIAM w. BRANDON,
Attorney General