Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-02

m~onopolzed. A straight row of eighteen
clean, white army regulation tents run
along the side of the elevation through
which Monroe street slopes toward the
edge Of THE river, and another similar row
lines the Union street side. Two of larger
size, with a fly in front, surmounted by
the national colors stand ~equi-distant on
the edge Of the bluff fronting the river,
one of which is occupied by Captain Glass
and First Lieutenant L. Dow, and tho
other by Captain Brown and his ~lieuten-
ants.
l. IN GooD SHAPE.
The tents, pitched with such military
precision, are all provided with plank
floors, laid on a slightly elevated heap of
earth, thrown up in forming water
trenches around the outer edges to carry
off the water during rain showers, and
nearly all are provided with comfortable
cots or i%mproyised bedsteads. The inside
of the tents are s~orupulously clean and
tidy. Shelter for two men is found in
each tent. AT the end of the two lines.
and to the right and left of the captains
headquarters, are the kitchens and mess
rooms, built Of canvas and plank, with
tables, stoves and the necessary appur-
%tenances for culinary duties. The com
panies each have a cook, who serve the
rations properly done up in eating order,
and the soldier has only to march to the
mess-room when meal time is announced
to get his MI of beans, bacon and coffee,
with such other palatable provender as
may be on hand. The bill of fare is not
very extensive, but it is good, wholesome
and enough. Several Of our prominent
officials supped at the mess a couple of
evenings since, and they came away
chuck full.
The guard tent is on the Front street
side near the central gate. Here a sem
try is always to be found moving to and
fro fully equipped and with soldierly
tread. The guards are mounted or
changed and misdemeanors punished at
this point. A soldier who took in too
much bad whisky a few days since was
bucked and gagged after true soldierly
style at this tent, and a day or two since
a pair slipped out of camp without per-
mission. Their punishment was to drag
a log of wood fastened with a chain for Il
few hours. Several recalcitrants of this
character are now at large and will be tied
to a log as soon rs captured.
THE ROUTINE OF HI A
for duty in camp is as follows
Reyeille, 5 am; Guard mounting. $50
am; Roll call, Gam; Musicians call, $50
AM Sick cali, 7 am; Fatigue call, 1880
am Dinner call, II m; Fatigue recall,
! pm; Company drill, $50 pm; Retreat,
pm; Roll call, 9p.mi Tattoo, $50 p.ms
Lights out, 10 pm.
THE PARADE GROUND.
Within the hollow square thus fur
nished by the arrangement of the tents,
Is a smooth, clean and inviting parade
ground where the drill and other military
exercises are practiced, and each after
noon the companies are both put through
a regular hour or more of hard schooling
INCIDENTS AND so ON.
On tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock a
dress parade is to come of, both companies
participating and the public are respect
fully invited to attend.
Visitors are welcome to the military
camp say the captains at any time be-
tween the hours of two in the afternoon
and half-past seven in the evening. No
callers can be admitted at other times.
owing to the military necessity Of pre-
serving good order and efficiency among
the troops, and of the duties of the men
during the remainder of the day.
Sixteen men from the two companies
are down at the Nonconnah bridge, six
miles from the city, to preserve it from
threatened destruction by disconnected
backwoodsmen. The squads are relieved
every "a hours. Twenty-Five men are
also daily detached for street %patrolling
service.
The people who room along Front street
say they are RECALLED every morning by
music from tho buglo and the band of the
soldiers on the bluff, They appear fond
of it, and do not object to the impromptu
selections performed al intervals during
the afternoons and evenings. 1t would
have been a misfortune for the genial face
OF Lieutenant Lorenzo Dow to be absent
from the soldiers camp this summer,
which would have been the case had he
gone among the nimble buffalo and blood
thirsty Indian with Colonel James Speed,
Major Rhea and Captain Jep Fowlkes.
The smiling face Of Lieutenant Dow is
pleasant to see at all times, and we would
be sad without It. He is the only commits
stoned officer on duty with the Guards
except Captain Glass, Good jokes BY the
dozen are told on the boys by their COM
rades regarding dangers and hair-breadth
scapes by field and food, Nonconnah
food. A few will be good to tell after a
bit.
That one on Corporal Bapks, known as
The Wild Corporal when he cut loose at
two little boys as they ~innoccntly ap-
preached the bridge at Nohconnah, a few
nights since, is arather serious Joke. but
Banks was SO awfully scared that he didn't
know which end he was standing on,
hence he is excused.
II zOUAyE GUARDS RosTRR.
The Zouaye Guards number Al men,
rank and hle, as follows;
Captain R.T. Brown First Lieutenant