The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-07-16
n c. STATE GUARD.
General Orders for the Encampment
at Wrightsville.
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Wilmington Star.
The following extracts are made
from General Orders No. 5, issued from
the Adjutant Generals office, Raleigh:
l. There will be an encampmento of the
First Brigade North Carolina State
Guard at Wrightsville, N. c., from
July II to "a, inclusive. The several
regiments and troop of cavalry COM
posing the Brigade, together with the
officers, of the general and brigade
staffs, will appear at camp on Friday
evening, July II, and Immediately
upon arrival report to the Adjutant
General for duty.
2 The regiments will have seperate
and guard lines, and regimental COM
manders will be held strictly respon-
sible for the work and discipline of
their own COMMAND will devolve upon
the Brigade Commander, who will pre-
scribe in orders the hours and calls of
service and the duties to be executed
and practiced in camp, which shall
consist in theoretical instruction for
officers and On-comlnissioned officers,
and practical instruction in camp duties,
guard duty, skirmish drill, the school
OF the battalion, rifle practice and
heavy gun drill; but no reviews will be
authorized except by orders from these
headquarters.
3. The camp will be known as Camp
Fowle, in honor of the late Commander
in-Chief, who did so much to secure
a permanent camp for the State Guard.
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6. Regimental commanders will as
certain and report to the Adjutant
General as soon as possible the num-
Der of men for whom transportation
will be required for their respective
regiments. Company commanders will
make requisition upon the station at
point of departure for transportation
for their respective commands, using
therefor the bank forms supplied from
this office.
7. Companies must attend with at
least sixty per cent. of their muster
rolls, and a failure to do this may be
the cause of a company being deprived
of the annual appropriation.
8. Company CONNIE nders will take
no enlisted men to camp who cannot
remain during the entire encampment.
They will ascertain this fact before
furnishing transportation to encamp-
ment, as leaves of absence to return
home prior to close of encampment
will be granted only upon surgeons
certificate of disability, or by reason
of serious illness or death in the officers
or soldiers family; and company COM
manders will be held responsible for
all tickets issued.
II. Thorough instruction in rife
practice being one of the objects of this
encampment, regimental commanders
are required to make such details at
such hours as they may be directed to
do by Col. B. Cameron, Inspector
General of Small Arms Practice. They
will also make such details as they
may be directed for instruction in
''heavy gun" drill.
l8. The encampment will be visited
by the Commander-in-Chief, and the
troops will be reviewed by him on such
days as may hereafter be announced.
10. While strict discipline must be
enforced. ample time will be allowed
for recreation and enjoyment. Nothing
will be left undone to secure the COM
fort and contribute to the reasonable
pleasures of the men consistent with
the object Of this encampment. Good
order must be maintained at all times,
and to that end all officers are strictly
charged to have any one arrested who
may be acting in an unsoldierly or un-
gentlemanly manner. Every member
of the Guard, it is hoped will take pride
and pleasure in doing his duty faith
fully and well towards making this en-
campment success in every particular,
a credit to the soldiers of North Caro-
lima, and thing Of real value to the
State.
90. The First Regiment Virginia
Volunteers having been invited to hold
their encampment at same time and
place as our own. it is earnestly hoped
that all officers and men will spare no
pains to make their visit as pleasant as
possible, and thus strengthen and
cement the bond of friendship that has
ever existed between the citizen-soldiers
of the two States.