Excerpt from Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1887 To His Excellency, Governor Alfred M. Scales: Sir: I have the honor to submit my annual report for the year ending December 31, 1887. Exhibit A, contains a Register of the Military Forces of the State. B, Commissions issued in 1887. C, Resignations. D, Abstract of Inspection Report. E, Report of Inspector General. F, Report of Quartermaster General. G, Reports of Regimental Commanders. H, Reports of Service in Aid of the Civil Power. K, Orders issued in 1887. L, U. S. Appropriation - Communication from the War Department. M, Act to Promote the Efficiency of the State Guard. The Guard numbers eleven hundred and ninety-two - officers and men - as against one thousand and forty-three in 1886, showing a slight increase. It comprises twenty-six companies of infantry and one of cavalry. Twenty-five companies are white and two colored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.