Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-23
SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY
State Would be Requested to Furnish
$3.50 of Army Of 100000 Men.

$3.50 OF Army OF 4UO,UO0 men.
The adjutant generals office is in
receipt Of information from the di-
vision Of militia affairs at Washington
says q Columbia dispatch to the
Charleston Post, prescribing the quota
Of troops each state would be required
to furnish in case the United States
should be required to put an army OF
4O0, 900 men in the field. The national
war department finds that this state
would have to furnish $3.50 men.
The United States has been divided
into twelve organized militia divi-
sional districts with the idea that each
of these districts will maintain a COM
plete tactical division. The field SER
vice regulations prescribe that q
tactical division shall consist Of three
brigades, nine regiments Of infantry;
one regiment Of cavalry, one brigade OF
field artillery, two regiments; one bat
talon Of engineers, three companies;
on battalion Of signal troops two
companies; one ammunition train
one supply train, one engineer train
four ambulance companies and three
field hospital companies.
With the exception Of New York, no
state has the proper proportion OF
cavalry. The war department Is max
ing strenuous effort to have the gov
ernors of the various states organize
their respective national guard units
along the lines suggested by the gen.
eral staff Of the army and contained
in the letter to the adjutant general.
Under the plan Of organization by
the war department, two regiments OF
South Carolina infantry and one
Florida regiment have been designated
the 26th brigade Of the 9th division.
Based on a call Of 100000 men to
arms, South Carolina would furnish
$3.50, divided as follows: Five COM
panies Of coast artillery, $50 men; one
troop cavalry 100 men; three batteries
of field artillery, 532 men; one COM
pany of engineers, 1S4 men; one am
bulance company, one field hospital
company 146 men; two regiments of
infantry, 1920 men; others required.
1920 men for headquarters and trans
portation.
Governor Manning on January 26'
wrote to the secretary Of war that he
stood ready to cooperate with the
United States war department In
bringing the national guard Of this
state up to the army requirements
The governor has also assured Ad-
jutant General Moore that he will
back him up in his endeavor to make
the state militia organization one OF
the best in the south.
The annual inspection Of the state
militia will be completed March 26
and at an early date 1t will be known
what companies will make up the two
new infantry regiments, which will be
organized and what companies will be
mustered out. This information was
given by J. Shapter Caldwell, assist
ant adjutant general.
Major Caldwell said that with the
small appropriation made by the gen.
eral assembly that 1t will be impossi-
BILE to support three regiments. In ad-
dition to this the war department has
increased the minimum strength OF q
regiment Of infantry to $50 men and
officers and the maximum strength to
1,s15. One Of the regimens will have
to be disbanded as the war department
plans call for only two regiments OF
this state.