Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-18
BATTERY A COMING
The Oldest Military Company in the
State to Visit Us.

State to Visit Us.
Last week Colonel Perrie Kewen, Assist
ant Adjutant. General, received from Joseph
Berry, Lieutenant of Battery A, Second Ar
tillery, n. G. c., located at San Francisco, a
communication to the effect that the bat
terry was DESTROYS of visiting Sacramento
Lieutenant Berry proposed that while here
an exhibition drill and ball be given by the
battery at some suitable hall for the benefit
of some charitable institution.
Colonel Kewen considered the idea an
excellent one, and at once set about to
bring the matter to a focus. He wrote to
Lieutenant Berry, assuring the latter that
Sacramento would be delighted to receive
the old battery, and suggested the Protestant
Orphan Asylum as the institution for
whose benefit the drill and ball should be
given.
Yesterday Colonel Kewen received the
following reply from Lieutenant Berry:
Colonel Ke,ren, Assistant Adjtttdnt General, Sac
idRlento-DEAR SIR: Battery a, Second Regi-
ment, N. G. c., desires to return to you its sin
cere thanks for the kind and generous interest
| you have taken in its behalf to do good towards
the charitable institution which you have Sc
| lected. can assure you that it meets with the
| full approval and appreciation OF Battery A, for
| if any institution needs assistance from any
charitably disposed organization. that institu-
| ton above ali others Is an orphan home, and
| we fully concur and deeply appreciate your
| selection in this matter, and are glad to know
that the old Battery is the first organization In
the National Guard to offer its services for the
| benefit of charitable institution. The Battery
| returns to you their thanks for the compllmeI Is
| bestowed upon them.
The Battery Will go to sacramento saturday;
| December 18th, and give an exhibition drill and
| dance for the benefit of the Orphans Home at
| Sacramento. The matter of hall is left with you
-Armory OF Pavilion. The time of departure
| from this city will be 430 P. NJ. That would
give time to reach Sacramento to commence the
drill at P. N. and the dance Immediately after
wards. JOSEPH BERRY,
Lieutenant Battery A.
Colonel Kewen will arrange TO have the
military of Sacramento receive the battery
upon arrival, and will see that no stone is
left unturned to make the affair grand
success, inasmuch as the entire arrange
ments have been left in his hands. He has
already secured reduced transportation
rates for the visitors.
The programme, as at present outlined
for the visitors TO carry out upon the night
OF their arrival is divided into four parts,
as follows: First, marching by sections
and platoons in review; second, Calling gun
drill, including mounting and dismount-
ing Calling carriage and timber and hang
ing wheels; third, standing gun drill by
platoon, review, inspection and drill;
fourth, dancing.
The battery is the Oldest military COM
pany in the State. 1t was organized July
81, 1919. Some prominent men have be-
longed to this company, among whom are
]. W. Geary Major General United States
Volunteers, and the following Brigadiers-
General, United States Volunteers: II. NJ
Naglee, T. D. Johns, F. ]. Lippitt, J. T.
Curtis, A. V. H. Ellis, G. H Carleton, ].
H. Hammond, R. B. Hampton, Governor
Haight and others,