COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Adjutant-General’s Office, Richmond, Va., April 23, 1898.  General Orders No. 9.

The commanding officers of such companies as will volunteer for service in the volunteer army of the United States will at once proceed to recruit their respective companies to at least eighty-four enlisted men.  Any company volunteering as a body, for such service, will be mustered in with its own officers.

By order of the Governor and Commander-in-Chief. (Signed) W. NALLE, Adjutant-General.

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Under date of June 1, 1898, S.O. 59, A.G.O., Richmond, Va., was issued directly to the commanding officers of the First and Second Battalion (colored), who had been specially designated by the President in his call, ordering them to take the necessary steps to recruit the companies of the respective battalions to eighty-three men per company, directing that care be taken, to accept only men of good repute and able-bodied, and that as soon as recruited the fact should be reported by telegraph to the Adjutant-General of the State.

July 15th, 1898, Company “A,” Attucks Guard, was the first company to arrive at Camp Corbin, Va., ten miles below Richmond.  The company had three officers; Capt.  W.A.  Hawkins, First Lieutenant J.C.  Smith, Lieutenant John Parham.

The other companies followed in rapid succession.  Company “B” (Carney Guard), Capt.  C.B.  Nicholas; First Lieutenant L.J.  Wyche, Second Lieutenant J.W.  Gilpin.  Company “C” (State Guard), Capt.  B.A.  Graves; First Lieutenant S.B.  Randolph, Second Lieutenant W.H.

Anderson.  Company “D” (Langston Guard), Capt.  E.W.  Gould; First Lieutenant Chas. H. Robinson, Second Lieutenant Geo. W. Foreman.  Company “E” (Petersburg Guard), Capt.  J.E.  Hill; First Lieutenant J.H.  Hill, Second Lieutenant Fred. E. Manggrum.  Company “F” (Petersburg), Capt.  Pleasant Webb; First Lieutenant Jno.  K. Rice, Second Lieutenant Richard Hill.  Company “G,” Capt.  J.A.  Stevens; First Lieutenant E. Thomas Walker, Second Lieutenant David Worrell.  Company “H,” Capt.  Peter Shepperd, Jr.; First Lieutenant Jas. M. Collins, Second Lieutenant Geo. T. Wright.  The regiment consisted of only eight companies, two battalions, commanded respectively by Major J.B.  Johnson and Maj.  W.H.  Johnson, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Rich’d C. Croxton, of the First United States Infantry.  First Lieutenant Chas. R. Alexander was Surgeon.  Second Lieutenant Allen J. Black, Assist Subsistence.

Lieutenant W.H.  Anderson, Company “C,” was detailed as Adjutant, Ordinance Officer and Mustering Officer.

Lieutenant J.H.  Gilpin, Company “B,” was detailed as Quartermaster and Commissary of Subsistance.