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Show ILLINOIS BATTERY IS MUSTERED INTO FEDERAL SERVICE SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 3. The war department today recognized battery A of the field artillery from Danville and reinstated into federal service Colonel Charles K. Greene, commander of the Third Infantry regiment, and Major Charles A. Walae of the First cavalry regiment, Illinois national jjuard, who had been rejected on account of physical deficiencies. defi-ciencies. Battery A was mustered into federal service tonight. Adjutant General Dickson Dick-son .'aid tonight that the Fifth and Sixth infantry regiments, the only organizations of the Illinois national guard not now mobilized, will be brought to Camp Dunne "for instruction" within the next ten days. Their stay here will take the place of their annual summer encampment of twelve days, which usually is held In August. |