Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-23
SOLDIERS Of FIFTH
|. REGIMENT NOW ARE
IN ACTIVE SERVICE
Respond to Mobilization Order
Early tuesday, Officers at
Once Administer New Oath
Required by Law

In order that there may be no mis-
understandings or confusion concerning
the effecS of the several orders issued
by him Monday, Adjutant General j.
Van Holt Nash Tuesday made state
ment to a Journal reporter explaining
these orders
He said that before any of the COM
panies could move from their home
stations to the mobilization camp at
Macon they must be recruited up to
their minimum strength of sixty-fiVe
men to a company and all officers and
men must subscribe to the new oaths.
When these requirements are COM
piled with and notice to that effect is
given the adjutant generals office ar
engagements will be made for the imme-
date transportation of such companies
to the Macon camp.
Members of the Fifth regiment, In
response to orders issued Monday by
General Nash, assembled at the armory
Tuesday morning at o'clock.
At that hour they were on duty as
soldiers and a snort time later officers
of the various companies began admin
istering the new oath to the men-the
oath which puts the guardsmen into
federal service and subject to duty
wherever they are sent.
Major F. L. Palmer, u. S. A, re-
| tired, administered the new oath to the
officers of the regiment, who, without
exception, subscribed to it. 1t is ex-
pected that practically every member
of the regiment will take the oath.
officers of the Fifth Tuesday ex-
pressed the opinion that By Wednesday
morning most of the companies in the
regiment, if not all of them. would be
recruited up to full strength and ready
to go to the mobilization camp at
Macon.
There has been steady stream of
recruits at the armory ever since the
doors were opened Monday morning and
the physicians and recruiting othcers
have had their hands full Up to mid
night Monday Ill men had been en-
listed, a number had been turned Down
because they did not measure up to the
physical requirements. and around a
hundred others were in line waiting to
stand their examinations.
The chances are that the Fifth will
leave for Macon during the latter part
of the present week or early next week.
Upon orders issued by Adjutant Cen
eral Nash, Brigadier General Walter
Harris, of Macon, Tuesday assumed
charge of the mobilization camp in that
city. Major M. ]. Daniel, of Griffin,
in charge of the quartermaster's de-
partment, and other brigade officers
are also on duty at Macon.
General Nash's order to General Har-
ris, sent by telegraph, follows:
"You are hereby placed in command
of the mobilization camp and all troops
stationed therein"
Stored in the government arsenal at
Augusta is a plentiful supply of uni
forms, guns, ammunition and other
equipment for the brigade which will
go from Georgia to Macon and thence to
Mexico.
All was hustle and hustle at the arm
DRY Tuesday. Dozens of squads were
J busy drilling, some in the armory and
some in the streets.
One of the busiest men at the armory
is Captain S. p. Cronheim, of the regi-
mental supply company He must look
after the equipment and food of the
regiment and must see to the shipment
and transportation of all supplies.
Major w. H. Leahy, commanding the
Third battalion of the Fifth, who has
been in California for several months,
Monday afternoon wired Adjutant Gen.
eraI Nash that he was en- route to At
lanta to join his command.