Iowa National Guard Activities
In Each Company
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(Duty) Sergeants will be
selected whose order of rank among themselves is as
follows: Second, third, fifth, sixth (machine Gun Company,
second, third, fifth.)
Corporals will be selected
whose order of rank among themselves is as follows: Tenth,
eleventh, eighth, third, second,, sixth, thirteenth,
fifteenth.
Wagoners will be selected by
taking the even numbered in the alphabetical list of their
names.
First class privates will be
selected by taking the even numbered in the alphabetical
list of their names.
Privates will be selected by
taking the odd numbered beginning with (1) in the
alphabetical list of their names until the quote is
completed.
After the call of the
President of July 3, 1917 which was the final call for the
National Guard units, permission was granted for the
organization of several new units. According to this
authority a field hospital was immediately organized at
Iowa City under the of Major Frank L. Love. This was given
Federal recognition but was denied the right to be mustered
into Federal service as a National Guard unit. They
therefore asked to be individually inducted into service
according to the selective regulations and were sent to
Fort Riley, Kansas for this purpose. After being
individually inducted into service they were then
re-organized as a field hospital company. Major Love was
not sent with this unit but was later called into service.
The proclamation of the President dated July 3, 1917, not
only called Iowa Guardsmen to Federal service, but also
drafted them into the Army of the United States on August
5, 1917. Paragraphs two, three and four of the proclamation
say:
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II. Under
the authority conferred upon me by clause second
of section one of the Act of Congress "to
authorize the President to increase temporarily
the military establishment of the United States,"
approved May 18, 1917, I do hereby draft into the
military service of the United States as of and
from the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and
seventeen, all members of the National Guard and
all enlisted members of the National Guard Reserve
of the following States, except members of
staff corps and departments not included in
the personnel of tactical organizations, and
except such other officers of the National Guard
as have been or may be specially notified by my
authority that they will be notified, to
wit...................Iowa...................................................
III.
All persons hereby drafted shall on and from the
fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and
seventeen, stand discharged from the militia, and,
under the terms of section 2 of the Act of May 18,
1917, be subject to the laws and regulations
governing the Regular Army, except as to
promotions, so far as such laws and regulations
are applicable to persons whose permanent
retention in the military service on the active or
retired list is not contemplated by law.
IV. The
members of each company, battalion, regiment,
brigade, division, or other organizations of the
National Guard hereby drafted into the military
service of the United States shall be embodied in
organizations corresponding to those of the
Regular Army. The officers not above the rank of
colonel of said organizations of the National
Guard who are drafted and whose offices are
provided for in like organizations of the Regular
Army, are hereby appointed officers in the Army of
the United States in the arm, staff corps or
department, and in the grades in which they now
hold commission as officers of the National Guard,
such appointments to be effective, subject to
acceptance on and from the fifth day of August,
nineteen hundred and seventeen, and each of them,
subject to such acceptance, is hereby assigned as
of said date to the organization in the Army of
the United States composed of those who were
members of the organization of the National Guard
in which at the time of draft he held a
commission. The non-commissioned officers of the
organizations of the National Guard the members of
which are hereby drafted are hereby appointed
non-commissioned officers in their present grade
in the organizations of the Army composed of said
members and shall in each case have the same
relative rank as heretofore; and all other
enlisted men are hereby confirmed in the Army of
the United States in the grades and ratings held
by them in the National Guard in all cases where
such grades and ratings corresponded to grades and
ratings provided for in like organizations of the
Regular Army, all such appointments of
non-commissioned officers and confirmations of
other enlisted men in their grades to be without
prejudice to the authority of subordinate
commanders in respect of promotions, reductions
and changes in, enlisted personnel. |
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