Volunteer Army organized.

Volunteer Army, first notable White army, organizes in Russia.

Out of all major anti-bolshevik forces in Russia, the first one to raise the banner of rebellion was the Volunteer Army. It organized itself in southern part of European Russia, and quickly swelled in numbers with deserters from the front army (especially the Drozdowski regiment of cavalry) and some Don Cossacks - most of them remained neutral in this perios of Russian Civil War.   The Volunteer Army was mostly composed of officers - as educated and often politically active (while being seen as naturally counterrevolutionary) people they were seen by bolsheviks as their natural enemies. Masses - peasants, especially - remained mostly indifferent, though their local resistance and insurgencies against bolshevik grain requisition was slowly growing.   Volunteer Army reached 15 000 soldiers before October 1921, when it was forced to retreat from the region by forces of the Reds attacking from north. It was commandered by Mikhail Alekseyev, and after his death due to Reds' artillery, by Anton Denikin.