Excerpt from Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1887<br><br>Our military force is a very small one for so large a State as North Carolina. It is considerably below the average proportions in other States. South Carolina, for instance, with a much smaller population than ours, maintains a militia four times as great in numbers. Measures should be taken to increase the Guard to a Size somewhere near the, maximum, fixed by the statute (the code, sec. It should, in the near future, be expanded so as to give us at least four complete regiments of infantry.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.