Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-23
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NATIONAL GUlRID TO BE
Modified, WEDNESDAY
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Units Still Under State Jurisdiction
to Receive Orders
To-Day.
EXPECT TO GO TO ANNIsToN
Period Of Brisk Recruiting to Be
Carried On While Commands Are
at Local Armories-Drafted Men
May Enlist Until Formally Notified.

Virginia National Guard units still
receive orders this morning from Ad-
jutant-General W. w. Sale to mobilize
at their home stations on Wednesday
morning preparatory to being must cred
into the service of the United States.
At the same time Virginia units in the
Federal service will start recruiting to
full war strength in order to be ready
for the joint movement OF the entire
force to the divisional concentration
point.
All units to report on Wednesday
have known for weeks that the call
had been made by the President. the
orders being transmitted to-day as a
matter of form. Practically all of the
organizations are at full strength, the
weaknesses being in those units which
have been doing police protection duty
under the Federal government. and
which have found it difficult to get
recruits while absent from home
The organizations to be mobilized
are the First Virginia Infantry: Com
pany A. Signal Corps; Field Hospital.
No. 1: Ambulance Company. No. /; six
companies Of coast artillery and one
battery of field artillery. The organ
izations in the Federal service are the
Second and Fourth Virginia Infantry:
First Battalion. Field Artillery; First
Squadron Cavalry: one battery of field
artillery and two companies Of coast
artillery.
CALL INCLUDES ALL
ENLISTED RESERVISTS
Included in the call to the colors are
all enlisted reservists. The reserve
force of the State consists OF approx
mately 200 men OF all branches of the
service. The reservists are men whose
term of enlistment expired while on
active duty and who were furloughed
TO the reserve for three years.
Two Richmond commands will re-
spond to the call--the Richmond Grays'
Battalion and Company A. Signal
Corps. The Richmond Howitzers and
Richmond Blues. artillery and cavalry.
respectively. are now in the Federal
service, the former being at Fort Ogle-
thorpe and the latter on police pro-
lection duty in various parts Of the
State.
All of the companies will mobilize at
their armories. where they will spend
from ten to ifteen days In preparing
their property for transfer from State
to Federal control and in recruiting.
The Richmond Grays need large num-
ber of men. but the signal company
is filled at present. The Richmond
Blues will need men. The Howitzers
are up TO war strength. The First In
fantry. as n whole. is in excellent
shape. but the infantry commands in
Federal service will need several hun
drcd men each. All of tho vacancies,
however, will be filled by draft unless
volunteer' step forward.
Early in August the Virginia troops
will move TO Anniston, Ala. where they
will form n part OF the Eighth National
Guard Division. being assigned with
the New Jers,y Maryland. Delaware
and District of Columbia contingents.
This camp will be known officially as
Camp Mcclellan. and will be under the
direct SUPERVISION of Major General
Leonard Wood. Whether the artillery
will be moved from Fort Oglethorpe
at once is not known. as the equip
ment Is being used for the instruction
OF the student officers there.
The call under which tho Virginia
troops enter the Federal service Is
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