initially there was little success - at the end of the first day ingram observed that they had a piper and a sergeant, but otherwise he was the regiment. over the next few days, however, the recruits started to come in and the regiment soon reached full strength of one thousand men, including a large number of irishmen. the attraction of the regiment was no doubt helped by the £30 bounty offered to recruits - the equivalent of about two and a half year's pay for a private. it was then common practice to draft experienced soldiers into newly raised regiments to give it 'backbone', and members of the 42nd (black watch) highlanders were duly transferred to the 83rd. however, on discovering that they would no longer be allowed to wear the kilt, they mutinied. once the regiment was raised, it received the name of 'royal glasgow volunteers' and was numbered 83rd in the line.