Nation's Volunteer Army, 1914

From the May 7, 1914 issue of the Watauga Democrat, Boone

The volunteer army bill passed both houses of Congress on the 25^th. The bill authorizes the President to call for volunteers by proclamation and make the necessary regulations for receiving while war is imminent or existing, enlistment to be apportioned among the States according to population.

Officers are to be appointed by the President, and he is to organize brigades and divisions without regard to State lines.

The enlistment period is to be four years, as in the regular army, and volunteers would be placed on a warfooting as in the regular army. At the close of the war, however, the President is required to disband such troops at once.