Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-03
VIRGINIA INFANTRY
IN ONE REGIMENT
FIRST, Second and Fourth Made
Single Unit at Camp
Mcclellan.
COLONEL LEEDY COMMANDS
Assigned to Fifty-Eighth Brigade
Under General Charles
D. Gather.
COLONEL LEEDY COMMANDS

Virginias three infantry National
Guard organizations. known as the
First. Second and Fourth Regiments
the former including the Richmond
Grays. have been swallowed up in tho
War Departments army reorganization
plans. and as State units they yester-
day ceased to exist. The Times Dis
patch correspondent at Admission. where
the Virginia guardsmcn are in train
Ing at Camp Mcclellan, last night for
warded an authoritative announcement
OF the change in the troops status.
The First, Second and Fourth Reg
iments have been ierf ID into the Ono
Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry OF the
Fifty-eighth Brigade. Blue and Gray
Division. otherwise known as the
Twenty-ninth Division.
Colonel Robert F. Leedy, of Luray,
commander of the Second Virginia
Regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel
Samuel r. Millar. Of Front Royal, also
OF the Second. will command the en-
largcd regiment. These two officers
are the seniors Of their rank in tho
Virginia Brigade.
MAJOR bright ASSIGNED
WITH NEW REGIMENT
Other officers designated for duty
with tho new regiment are as follows:
Mators-John +. light. Of the Rich
mond Grays. First Regiment; George
o. Leach. of the Second Regiment;
Stanley w. Martin. of the First Reg
iment. Captains-William A. Stack. of
Richmond: A. D. Burnham. Lynchburg:
G. NJ. Alexander. Lynchburg: S. G.
Waller. Front Royal; L. G. Figgat.
Roanoke; w. B. Davis. Petersburg; r.
Y. Conrad. Winchester: Gunyan N.
Harrison. fredericksburg: j. w.
Wright East Radford; Samuel r.
Nlillar, Jr.. Front Royal; C. r. Kinder
water. Roanoke; ]. E. Asst. Staunton:
Roland Thorp, Norfo,'t; Howard NJ.
Raines. Danville; Heroine L. Opie.
Staunton, and James L. Mitchell.
Norfolk.
In addition to these officers, forty
first lieutenants and thirty second lieu
tenants will be assigned to the Ono
Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment.
No mention is made OF what will
. become OF those officers who have not
been designated for duty with the
,Iexpanded regiment. Colonel William
| ~. Perry. Of Staunton, and Lieutenant
Icolonel Robert E. Craighill. OF Lynch
burg. commanded the First Virginia
Regiment, and Colonel Edward l..
IGoodwyn. OF Emporia. commanded the
Fourth Virginia Regiment. 1t Is In
teresting to note that Colonel Millar
/ land Captain Millar. who Will serve in
the new regiment. are father and son.
The expanded regiment is composed
| lof most Of the enlisted men of the Sec
ond and First Regiments, with a few
who were in the Fourth Regiment.
Enlisted men who were not Assigned
to the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regi-
ment will be transferred to the depot
brigade and other units at Camp Nc
Clellan.
COMPLETES BRIGADE UNDER
GENERAL CHARLES ID. GATHER
The organization Of the One Hun
ldred and Sixteenth Infantry completes
the brigade under Brigadier-Generai
lCharles u. Gather. the One Hundred
and Fifteenth Regiment having been
organized several days ago, with Col
onel Charles NJ. Little, of the First
maryland Regiment. and Lieutenant
Colonel Milton A. Record. Of the IA
nous Fifth Maryland Regiment, in
command. Colonel Washington Bowie.
who commanded the Fifth Maryland
|IRegiment, was relieved of duty to take
command of the One Hundred and
Twelfth Artillery.
General Gathers brigade will in
clude a machine gun battalion COM
Imanded by Major D. J. Markey. of the
First Maryland Regiment.
News that the Virginia units had
gone out Of existence Will undoubtedly
be received at home with sincere re-
Igret. However. it appears that 1t is
the intention to keep most of the men
from this State together, but 1t will be
impossible to avoid assigning certain
Of the soldiers to units in which they
will be among strangers.
While word that the old regiments
had been merged into a new unit was
received with regret. 1t by no means
came as surprise, as 1t was announced
1.-TWO months ago that 1t was the pur-
pose OF the War Department 20 reor-
| ganizee the army on an entirely new
basis ,is made 1t certain that the
Virginia troops would have their status
Ialtered
Richmond officers whose names are
not mantloned as being assigned to the
Inew regiment. not including first and
second leutenants, are as follows:
captains James r. Sheppard. Company
IC, Grays; Harry A. Howell. Company
A. Grays; Charles A. Rady, Company
+. Grays. and Rev. Benjamin Dennis,
chaplain, Second Regiment