National Republican., 1883-08-13
WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY.
Preparations for Their Encampment at
Cane Mnv-Coi. NIooress Order.

Preparations for Their Encampment at
Cape May--Coi. Moore's Order.
Tho members of the Washington Light In
fautry corps are actively engaged in making
preparations for their trip to Cape May on
Saturday night next, where they will go into
camp. 1t is thought that about ono hundred
and sixty of the corps will go and they will be
accompanied by at least two hundred and fifty
honorary members and friends. largo
number Of ladies will accompany the excur-
sion. Last year their camp was named after
the general of the army and this year it will
be called Camp Sewell.'
Extensive arrangements have been made
at the Cape for the enjoyment OF the militia,
and among the features of the entertainment
will be trip to the Delaware breakwator on
the steamer Republic, review by Gen.
Sewell of the United States senate the hop
aud garden party by Col. Cake, of the Stock
ton, all complimentary to the corps.
Col Amos Webster, adjutant general of the
district militia, has accepted an invitation to
visit the camp and inspect the corps, and has
designated Saturday, the twenty-ffth, as the
date. He will be accompanied by Majs. II. ID.
Cooke and j. p. Willett, and will remain in
camp as the guest of Col. Moore until the
following Monday, when he will return with
the corps.
Col. Moore has issued the following general
order in reference to the encampmcnt:
HEADouARrERrs W. l. l. CoRPs,
WASHINGTON ID. c., Aug. IL. 1888.
General Orders No. %
/. Cape May having been selected for the annual
encampm pment of the corps. aud the date having
been fixed for the nineteenth instant, the battalion
saturday evening, Aug. IS, in fatigue uniform
with shakos. Fatigue caps will be suspended
from the waist belt, Knapsacks viii be carried
BLANKETS rolled thereon). and will contain suli-
Client art cles of clothing for weeks absence. in
cluding white gloves. Epauletles will be carried
In the knapsack. White coats and overooals viii
be forwarded in chests, aud must be delivered at
the armory leach with the name OF the
owner theroon) on or before Friday even
| ing, the seventeenth instant As tho knap-
sack is the soldiers trunk and is suni'
| cent for all articles necessary for week:
military duty, extra baggage will not be allowed,
termaster as absolutely Indispensable After q
parade on Pennsylvania avenue as for as fifteenth
street and return, cars will be taken at the Bati,
| more and Potomac depot and will move at II
| o'clock p. IN. Arms and accoutrements Will be Sc
placed as to avoid injury to them or to the cars
delphia, the corps will leave the cars, take the
| ferryboat, and euter train in waiting at Camden
| n. ]. The battalion will be received ut Cape May
upon its arrival at q. m. the nineteenth instant
| by he city authorities and company II, 9th regi.
ment New Jersey National Guard, and Will at
once proceed to Camp William j. sewell. I'm,
mediately after the dism lssal of the companies at
| the Assembly of guard details the men warned
for. guard duty will fall in on their company pa
rade grounds, and undress guard mounting will
| follow "adjutants call
II. Capt William N Dalton, of company A, will
act as officer of the day during the journey, and
! will be relieved on the morning of the nineteenth
by Capt Matthew Goddard, of company G. The
oihcer Ofthe guard will he Lieut., John g. Cowie
o. company A. The sergeant major will see that
detail of one sergeant, three corporals and six
teen men is furnished from the several compa'
| MES.
| III. Tickets must be procured of Capt. George
Breltbarth, quartermaster, prior to Saturday even
ing, the, eighteenth instant, and will be issued tC
members upon the payment tho assessment.
| w. The commanding officer, remembering th'
| proud record of the corps, deems 10 suggestions
| necessary as to gentlemanly department. solderly
bearing aud strict discipline, He feels assured
that none of these essentials to success will thi
| occasion be wanting,
BY order OF WILLIAM G. MOORE.
| Lieut. Col. Cong.
| w, II. HARRISON, First Lieut. and AdIt.