The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-09-29
DRAFTED NEGROES CALLED.
SEVERAL THOUSAND WILL EN-
TER CAMP JACKSON EARLY
IN OCTOBER.
Local Boards Will Move Delegations
as Fast as They are Certified. +.

CoiunDld, sept. Zo.-General orders
to mobilize negroes at Camp Jackson
october 3 were received at the office
Of w. w. Moore, adjutant general, yes
terday. The number to be called from
South Carolina at that time is 26 per
cent. of the full quota of 10,081, which
is 2.61S. Presumption is that similar
orders were issued to the adjutant
generals of North Carolina and Flor
ida. Should 26 per cent. quotas be
brought from these two latter States
on October 3, the total number of ne
groes would approximate 5000. OF
this number 4,153 would come from
North Carolina and 1,645 from Flor
ida.
instructions was also given for the
continued mobilization of white men
until the full 40 per cent to have been
modified last week have been sent 10
the camp. In many instances counties
were compelled to report deficiencies
in that the district boards had been
unable to certify back full quotas sent
up by the local boards. Greenville will
send Al white men to the camp today,
to supplement the increment OF last
week. Other counties will send in
crements forward just as certification
mas been given. The telegram from
e. H. Crowder, provost marshal gem
eral yesterday, read:
"All deficiencies in the instaliment
OF the quota of any local board in the
call for September 18 should be made
UP before October 3. On October 3
begin sending from all local boards
white men to Camp Jackson at Colum-
bia as fast as they are certified from
the district to the local boards as Sc
lected for military service, until all
white men included within the quota
for such local boards have been sent.
) 1t is thought that no special traffic
arrangements are necessary and that
: these men can be sent on ordinary
; trains.
Entirely apart from this movement
. OF white men, send, beginning Octob-
er 3, 26 per cent of the quota of each
local board made up exclusively of
colored men. Schedules for this move
ment OF colored men showing the
: specific dates on which installments
from each Of your local boards should
: move will be furnished you by the
; American Association of Railroads.
Except as local adjustments made af-
} teter consultation with the passenger
representatives are necessary these
schedules should control"
The quota Of negroes each local
board in South Carolina is expected
to furnish October is as follows:
Abbeville As, Aiken Sc, Anderson
No. 1. %; Anderson No. 2. 25; Ander-
' son No. 8. 1s; Bamberg. 4s: Barnwell.
s 95; Beaufort, %: Berkeley, 80; CAL
, houn. Al: Charleston County. sz:
5 Charleston city No. 1. 20; Charleston
8 city No. 2. 80; Cherokee. 81; Chester,
, SO; Chesterfield, 43; Clarendon, Is;
? Colleton, 61; Darlington, 40: Dillon.
AZ; Dorchester. 32; Edgefeld. 5s:
! Fairfield, SO; Florence. "a; George
town. 3S; Greenville No. 1, 81; Green
, Vile No. 2, SO; Greenville No. 3, "a;
, Greenwood. 80; Hampton, a.: Horny.
! 81; Jasper. %; >Kershaw. as; Lam
: caster. 81; Laurens. SO; Lee. 62; Lex
} ington. 67; Mccormick. S5: Marion.
} 80; Marlboro, 65; Newberry, Sc:
Oconee, At; Orangeburg No. /, "A;
Orangeburg No. 2, 4S; Pickens, ~:
Richland County, So; Columbia city,
40; Saluda, 80; Spartanburg No.
46: Spartanburg No. 2, AZ; Spartan
burg No. 3. q; Sumter, 60; williams
burg. So; York No. /. 81; York No. 2,
33.