FIRST REGIMENT, INFANTRY, NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. In accordance with section 1, General Orders No. 8, General Headquarters, S. N. Y., dated A. G. O. Albany, April 27th, 1898, the Commanding Officer of the Third Brigade, N. G., Brigadier General Robert Shaw Oliver, ordered to organize two Regiments from organizations of his Brigade, formed one of these two Regiments of the Tenth, Twelfth and Seventeenth Battalions and the 44th Sep. Company of his Brigade, and designated it the "First Regiment, National Guard, composed of organizations of the Third Brigade." The Regiment thus organized consisted then of Companies A, B, C and D of the Tenth Battalion, the 5th, 14th, 16th and 24th Separate Companies of the 12th Battalion, the 3d, 20th and 33rd Separate Companies of the 17th Battalion and the 44th Separate Company. It appearing that the 16th Separate Company would find it difficult to recruit the required number of men, it was relieved and replaced by the 15th Separate Company. The organizations above named were located at the time: Companies A, B, C and D, Tenth Battalion, at Albany, the 3rd Separate Company at Oneonta, the 5th Separate Company at Newburgh, the 14th Separate Company at Kingston, the 15th Separate Company at Poughkeepsie, the 20th Separate Company at Binghamton, the 24th Separate Company at Middletown, the 33rd Separate Company at Walton and the 44th Separate Company at Utica. Upon the recommendation of the Brigade Commander, General Oliver, the Governor of the State, appointed on April 29th, 1898: General Thomas H. Barber, formerly Inspector General of the State, Colonel, and Major Horatio Potter Stacpole, Tenth Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel of this Regiment. Pursuant to Special Orders, Nos. 70 and 72, dated AdjutantGeneral's Office, Albany, April 30th, and May 1st, respectively, the organizations of which this regiment is composed left their home stations in time to take trains for Camp Black at Hempstead Plains, Long Island, as follows: The 20th Separate Company at 11 p. m. May 1st; the 33rd Separate Company at 12.15 a. m. May 2nd; the 24th Separate Company at 3 a. m. May 2nd; the 3rd Separate Company at 3.55 a. m. May 2nd; the 44th Separate Company at 5.30 a. m. May 2nd; the 10th Battalion at 8.30 a. m. May 2nd; the 15th Separate Company at 9.30 a. m. May 2nd, and the 5th Separate Company at 10.45 a. m. May 2nd, 1898. At Camp Black the component parts of the regiment received regimental company designations as follows: Companies A, B, C and D, Tenth Battalion, became corresponding companies of the regiment; the 44th Separate Company, Company E; the 33rd Separate Company, Company F; the 3rd Separate Company, Company G; the 20th Separate Company, Company H; the 24th Separate Company, Company I; the 15th Separate Company, Company K; the 5th Separate Company, Company L, and the 14th Separate Company, Company M. The medical examination of the officers and enlisted men developed the fact that a number of men could not be accepted, and others were sent from the home stations of organizations to replace them. |