The Portland daily press., 1881-07-15
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THE VISIT OF THE HARTFORD CON-
PANY TO PORTLAND.
Preparations for their Reception.

The Governors Foot Guard will make their
visit to Portland on Aug 10th and 11th-not
the 1lth and 18th, as previously reported,-and
they will receive hearty welcome at the
hands OF the Brown Light Artillery The
Foot Guard are expected to arrive on special,
over the Portland & Worcester from Hart
ford, at p. M, Wednesday, the 10th. They
will be received at the railroad station bv the
Artillery and escorted to their quarters at tho
Falmouth Hotel At 0 p. m an elegant BAN
quet VIII be served to their guests by the Ar
lilery, followed by toasts and responses. At
this dinner it is expected many prominent
gentlemen of our own and other States will ha
present. The next morning the two compa-
MES will parade, and at noon take the steam or
lor trip to the islands, where a Casco Bay
clam-bake will be served. 1t is possible that
at the close of the clam-bake the visitors will
take the boat for Boston. The Foot Guard
will bring two uniforms with them; one the
elegant full dress of the corps, the other ia
tigue suit; and they will be accompanied by
Colts celebrated Armory Band.
The Governors Foot Guard was chartered
by the Colonial Legislature of Connecticut as
the "Gover lors Guard" in It'll during the
lull between the French war and the war of
the Revolution. The first parade was in May
l772. They participated in the reception of
Washington and his Guards, Count de Roch-
ambeau and the Admiral Tierney, in 1880, act
ing as escort and guard of honor in the last
honors to Gov Trumbull, in 1884, in the
troublous times of the Hartford Convention of
1872; on escort duty to Commodore McDonough
in 1915, when the State of New York present.
ed that gallant officer with the elegant sword
now in the Connecticut Historical Society: in
tho celebration of the peace of 1916; in honor
OF Gen. Jackson's visit to Hartford in 1888: as
escort to Gen. Lafayette on his last visit to
this country in 1926. These are but a few of
the occasions which the Guard has helped to
make famous. Speaking of their uniforms,
Hartford paper said not long ago, "Their scar.
let coats have the ANTICIPATED cut and the pecu-
liar facings of sixty years since' their breeched
and gathered legs look as if they had lust
marched out of Que Col Trumbul's battle
pieces; and their white, powdered locks (for
the costume is preserved throughout) shone
from under their black bearskin caps, as if
dressed by regimental perruquier Of Seventy.
Six"
Major Embler, the commander of the Gov
ernor's Foot Guard, went to the war as first
Sergeant Co. H., list Regiment N. Y.S.V.
g., and went through the three months cam
paign of that regiment. sHe was slightly
wounded at Bull Run. He was appointed
lieutenant in the 82d n. Y. Volunteers. was
promoted to captain, and woundgd at Antie-
TAM Recovering, he was appointed muster
ing officer on the staff of Gen. Gibbons COM
manding Second Division, Second Army Corps,
and followed the fortunes of the army of the
Potomac to the end. He was promoted to Ma
lor and Senior Aid on Gibbons staff when that
officer was transferred to the command of the
oath army corps. Major Embler is one of the
very few living who were present at the time
the rebel flags, captured at Appomattox, were
turned over to President johnson and Cabinet,
on which occasion he received the brevet of
Lieutenant Colonel at the hands OF Secretary
Stanton, for meritorious services rendered on
the field of hatt1e