Uncle Sam says they may put him in charge of a regular regiment.
It is made up of six regular regiments and one volunteer (reserve) regiment.
These two regular regiments became, respectively, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the new regiment.
However, they were the first regular British regiment to be so designated.
They were mostly made up of volunteers from the militia who had recently been permitted to join regular regiments.
Eight of these regular regiments mutinied and two were disbanded during 1857-58.
He commanded them for a year before taking command of his regular regiment, and later a cavalry brigade.
The campaign, which took just under a year, was conducted by the regular British regiments.
The soldiers were given a bounty of only six days pay, to encourage them to enlist into other regular regiments.
To bring the regular regiments up to strength handsome bounties were offered.