Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-29
over 1000 ARE
MUSTERED in
Virginia Recruits Stand
Rigid Physical Exami-
nation
NEED NEW RECRUITS
NEED NEW RECRUITS
Adjutant General Sends Telegraphic
Appeal For Increased Activity at
Various Stations

Richmond, June 29-When reveille
;blared forth in Camp Henry Carter
Stuart this morning 1000 men awak-
ened to find themselves mustered into
the service of the United States and
under orders of the President to go
anywhere in the world that they may
be needed.
All through the day, from mess
call until long after taps, the army
surgeons proceeded rapidly with their
work. Men already enlisted in the
militia and raw recruits, rushed from
shower bath to the surgeons tented
office there to learn whether they were
fit to fight beneath the flag, which
fcats in front of brigade headquar-
ters. Orders had come from Wash
ington to go ahead with examination
and mastering in with the utmost
haste, so that the War Department
might know how many Federalized
military organizations could be sent
to the border and be depended upon
for active duty.
No additional orders have heen re-
ceived from Washington, but Adju-
tant General Sale will be ready by
tomorrow morning to move his troops
Trains on every railroad entering
Richmond are in readiness for the
transportation. The entire body in
the camp could be moved at once if
it were properly equipped. Supplies
are needed. Recruits who have been
accepted are still parading the ground
in civilian dress and unarmed. They
may not be sent away until they are
equipped for the field.
Recruiting officers are still being
hampered by mothers. One travelled
from Staunton to ask that her son
be released, and wept upon the COM
manding officers shoulder when she
was informed that he had been mus
tered in. Other mothers have asked
Adjutant- General Sale and the Cover.
nor that their sons be discharged from
the service. But wars grim necessity
can pay no heed to a mothers tears
or TO a wife's request. The women
should try to help by withdraw
ing their appeals and by urging theil
sons to answer the Presidents call
Every effort is being made to keer
the men happy and serene. BY the
Governors order Kessnich's Rand will
play in the grand stand every after.
noon, from a to $50 o'clock. The
Second Regiment has its own enlist,
ed band on the grounds, and the band
of the First Regiment will come in
today.
With the commands of the Firs
and Second Regiments reduced by
more than 20 per cent of their orr.
ginal effectives, Adjutant-General W,
w. Sale, General G. C. Vaughan
Colonel 10 Lane Stern and brigade
staff officers bent every effort to
urge enlistment of men physically Fl
for duty in the eld. More than 2,00t
men have been examined and muster
ed in. but the State muster rol
should number $500.
The Adjutant- General teiegraphet
to all recruiting officers in the STATE
to hurry their work, and recruiting
Offices were established in every. com
pany stationed at Camp Henry Car
ter Stuart. The Governor has beer
informed by the War Department
that the cases of rien and officers VIII,
have been rejected on account o
minor defects will be taken up indi
>vidually by the War Department it
self. Exclusion of certain men know
be expert militiamen and to be goot
shots will be urged by the Governo
and the Adjutant-G General.