Evening star., 1933-09-24

10000 volunteers the District only to be
allowed $50 men. ana even this number was
subsequently reduced to 40. Therefore. when
the order finally reached Col. Harries, calling
for an infantry regiment, there great
joicing at the guard headquarters, for this
meant a regiment Of IL companies of II men
each, making with the staff 932 men and so
officers. The number Of men also included
the band which was afterward organized from
the enlisted men, the leader being a sergeant.
The volunteers were put through a rigid
examination which. as stated many failed to
pass for the War Department knew that the
service would not only be arduous, but that the
unhealthy conditions the men would have to
endure would tax their constitutions to the
utmost. Hence it was several days before suf-
fcient men could be found to fill the depleted
ranks through medical reflections. But when
the regiment finally announced it was
ofncered follows:
Colonel. George H. Harries; lieutenant colonel,
Theodore Masher accepted appointment at q
later date); regimental adjutant, First Lieut.
william E. Horton; major, M. Emmett Ureu
major, Charles Del. Hine: major, Richard A.
OBren; major and surgeon r. A. Pyles
chaplaiA George F. Dudley; first lieutenant
and batt\ion adjutant James L. Mock; first
lieutenant and battalion adjutant Charles B.
Hudson; first lieutenant and battalion adjutant,
c. Fred Cook; first lieutenant and quarter
master, John M Field; first lieutenant and
assistant surgeon c. A. Weaver; first lieuten-
ant and assistant surgeon S. Clifford Cox.
Company A-Captain, Harry Walsh: first
lieutenant, Richard j. Harden; second lieuten-
ant Charles H. Harlow.
Company B-Captain. William T. H. King;
first lieutenant. Thomas S. King; second lieu
tenant, Horace M Bell.
Company C-Captain, Charles S. Domer;
first lieutenant, w. E. Crist; second lieutenant
C. S. Redman
Company D-Captain, W. s. Hodges first lieu
4,1x o.,sc
F. Boiseau
Company E-Captain. F. L. Graham first
lieutenant. j. H. Grifiths; second lieutenant,
F. E. Skinner.
Company F-Captain, Otto S. Smonson; first
lieutenant c. v. Sayer; second lieutenant W.
H. Harrison.
Company G-Captain F. S. Hodgson; first
lieutenant D. N. Chisholm; second lieutenant,
L. W. Heron.
Company H-Captain. H. B. Lookes; first
lieutenant c. S. Ianham; second lieutenant
A. A. Smith.
Company Captain, R. D. Sims; first lieu
tenant, T. B. Walker; second lieutenant, r. B.
Hayes.
Company K-Captain, G. B. Young: first
lieutenant. c. B. Hudson; second lieutenant,
w. E. Sorrels.
Company LCaptain, G. W. England; first
lieutenant, C. A. Meyer; second lieutenant, F.
B. Wheaton.
Company M-Captain, r. s. Jacobs; first
lieutenant, F. G. Stutz; second lieutenant, e.
N. Meekins
While in the service, some changes we're
made, including the placing Of the regimental
adjutant, Lieut. Horton, on Gen. Hawkins staff,
and First Lieut. r. D. Mayer was detailed to
the position thus vacated. Capt Simonson
resigned, and sickness caused other temporary
changes.
COON after being mustered in, the regiment
- was sent to camp near Falls Church. in
historic Virginia, on a tract Of land known
Woodburn Manor, selected as an army site by
the engineers Of the War Department, suffi-
cient for the concentration Of 10000 to 10000
troops of the volunteer army. It was situated
aholrt tun naiies south uest of Ealx. Church. .