History of the 151st field artillery, Rainbow Division, by Louis L. Collins, lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Edited by Wayne E. Stevens, PH. D. Pub. by the Minnesota War records commission.

202 HISTORY OF THE 151ST FIELD ARTILLERY

On July 25, 1917, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
The members of the National Guard of the various States affected by this
call will be concentrated at such places as may be designated by the War Department.
II. And, 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 not be drafted, to wit:
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina.
Tennessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah
and California.
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 noncommissioned officers of the organizations of the National Guard
the members of which are hereby drafted are hereby appointed noncommissioned
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 correspond to grades and ratings provided for in like
organizations of the Regular Army, all such appointments of noncommissioned
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.