The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-07
Gov. Graham Urges Ver-
mont to Fill Regiment
to War Strength
MEN ON DRAFT LIST
WILL BE ACCEPTED
This May Be Only Vermont
Unit to See Service
in the War

Under General Order, No 20, Adjutant
General Lee S. Tillotson of the Vermont
military department has issued a state
ment from Governor Graham, in which
the executive declares that the national
registry of June 5 does not prevent men
so listed from volunteering in the Ma
tional Guard, coupled with which state
ment is an urgent plea for the young
men of Vermont to raise the LIST YER
mont regiment to full war strength.
Nine hundred men are needed to bring
up the regiment to that strength. Gov.
Grahams statement is as follows
To the Men of Vermont.
81 call the attention of the men Of
Vermont to the need of recruits for the
First Vermont infantry, National Guard,
now in the United States service, with
headquarters at the state military reser-
walton, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. This
regiment entered the federal service April
2, 1917, under the presidents call OF that
date, with 900 officers and men. The
regiment lost 232 men by discharge on
account of physical disability, dependent
relatives and other causes. 1t has re-
cruited AIT men, so that the strength of
the regiment to-day is only l45 more
than when it was called out,
"The war department authorizes Ma
tional Guard units to be recruited to war
strength. 1t is expected that this will
be done by volunteer enlistment. The
regiment needs 900 men, and | urgently
request this number of volunteers to en-
list at once. This regiment is the only
distinctively Vermont military organi-
cation that | expect the state will be
called upon to furnish during the pres
ent war
Volunteers to the First Vermont in
'fantry will be entitled to $40 per month
in additional to federal pay.
"The First regiment, Vermont Volun
teer militia Home Guard, which has
been authorized, is for service in the
state only and will not interfere in any
way with recruiting for the First infan-
try. The Home Guard is intended to
give opportunity for service at home to
men who are not available for duty
abroad.
"The fact that a man registered on
June 5, 1917, under the federal law, does
not prevent his enlisting in the First
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any other recognized military or naval
force of the country.
Arrangements have been made by the |
federal government so that recruits for
the First Vermont infantry can be ac
cepted at any of the following places:
Fort Ethan Allen, Bellows Falls,
Brattleboro, Montpelier Newport, Rut-
land, st. Johnsbury, Swanton, Wells Riv-
er and White River junction. If re-
cruits offer themselves at other points, |
the state will arrange to pay their ex
penses from their home to one of the
above recruiting stations, so that all men
who desire to volunteer for the Vermont
National Guard may do so without ex-
pense to themselves.
"The Vermont committee of public
safety has taken this matter up, and
campaign will begin immedi
ately. Now that definite information is
at hand, there ought to be no question
about the result. The First Vermont
National Guard, will undoubt-
eddy be the organization, if any, which
will carry Vermont's name onto the fir
ing line in France or Belgium. / ask
the young men of the state, who are in
a position to volunteer for active serv-
ice, to do so at once and identify them
selves with the only Vermont fighting
INIT which is likely to participate in the
war.
Horace f. Graham,
Governor"