Volunteers were ordered to be enrolled and held in readiness in every part of the State.
He was, however, a splendid disciplinarian, but this was something the volunteers did not want.
Yet the work now to be done was much too important to be left to the hands of untrained volunteers.
Months later a call came for volunteers, to fill the great gaps made at the time of the first use of gas.
Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn the people to flee.
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust.
Next morning seven volunteers launched one of the whaleboats, boarded the steamer, took in provisions, made a lug out of a piece of canvas, hoisted the Union Jack to the mainmast upside down, and pulled safely away from the 'Clonmel' against a head wind.