The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-31
TRAMP OF SOLDIERS
To Make Emporia Lively Most of
Next Week.
WHAT THE ENCAMPMENTW ILL BELIZE

The Kansas Army viii ALI be To-
serher for the First Time since
1856.
| Fourteen hundred citizen soldiers of
the Sunfower state will be in camp at
Emporia next week under the command
of Major General ]. w. F. Hughes of
Topeka.
The state eucampment of the Kansas
national guard which is to open Tuesday
morning al Emporia will be the first time
since 1885 that all the mem bers of the
guard have been in camp together and it
will be a busy and Interesting week not
only for the soldier boys, but for the old
soldiers and private citizens who have an
| opportunity to visit their camp.
Major General Hughes and his staff
officers will go to Emporia Sunday after
noon and the major generals headquar-
ters viii be opened bright aud early
Monday morning, although the encamp-
ment will not be opened until Tuesday
morning.
! The members of Major General
! Hughes staff are, Major w. a. S Bird
, of Topeka, Judge Advocate; Major c. N.
! Nelson of Topeka, and Major R bert At
| kinson of Ottawa, engineer and post
| quarter master.
There will be three brigadier generals
! at the encampment with their staff Off
| GERS in addition to the three c0lonels
and regimental officers. twenty SEVEN
! companies of infantry, three bands and
the battery of two divisions.
The brigade officers who will be at
/ Camp Morrill,, which is to be the official
name of the encampment in honor of
! Governor E. n. Morrill,, who is by virtue
of his office commander of the guard,
are Brigadier General Gee. Ii. Barker,
of Holton; Brigadier General w. 5. Cor
bett of Wichita, and Brigadier General
7. Scott Morrison OF Clay Center
The members of Brigadier General
Barker's staff are Captain Fred G. Moore,
A. A. G., of Holton; Captain Fred Blu
chan. son of Billy Buchan of Kansas
City, brigade quartermaster; Lieutenant
Fl. H Johnson, a. d. c., of Lawrence.
and Lieutenant W. S. Eoerle, A D. c., of
Topeka.
Topeka in addition 10 being represent
ed at the encampment by Maj0r General
| Hughes and staff will have light battery
and the battery boys will give the
| members of the Wichita battery pointers
on how TO handle their guns.
The music for the encampment will he
| furnished by drummer boy with each
of the 81 companies of infantry, the bu-
glers of the battery and three bands, The
! bands will be from Kansas CITY, Mime
| apOlls and w ichlta
Major General Hughes has already is
sued MS formal order for the daily rou-
tine of soldier life during the four days
of the enc2mpmsnt and while it is dry
to read it is interesting when yeu know
what it means. The order is as follows:
Forenoon-Reveille, 6:0;; breakfast,
6:15; surgeons call, 6:45; fatigue call,
7:0O; first sergeant's, 500: guard mount,
$50; drill cali, 900; re call, 11:0Q
Aftern0on-Dinner, 1910; drill call,
1870; recall, $3.50; target practice. $3.50
$3.50; dress parade. 6:9U; supper. immedi-
ately after parade; tattoo, 1000; taps,
1915.
When the bugler sounds the reveille
every soldier in camp who has not been
| up and dressed for an hour or more must
get up and get ready for breakfast,
which is almost ready.
At the surgeons call all the sick sold
iers 60 to the regimental doctor for their
morning medicine; it is always pills.
At fatigue call the private soldiers
who are not out on a guard duty must
clean up camp All the loose straw must
be piled up, the meat which was too
tough to eat for breakfast must be- car
ried off and the tents must be arranged
for the day.
At first sergeant's call the orderly ser
geant of each company makes report at
|
of men in his com pany, the number on
guard duty, and the general condition of
his company.
When guard mount is announced the
officers and men who have been doing
the camp guard duty during the proceed
ing twenty four hours are relieved from
duty and the new guard is established
A regimental officer of the day is usually
appointed who is the commanding officer
of the camp.
At drill call every soldier in camp must
respond to the call for company or regi-
mental drill, which is hard work, al
though it looks easy. At the recall the
drilling ceases.
In the afternoon there is to be another
drill call, and then the target practice,
where all the soldiers are allowed to
shoot at a mark.
The big event of the day is dress
parade, where all the soldiers appear
dressed in their best clothes and march
to the music of the bands.
People who visit an encampment al
ways want to see the dress parade. be-
cause it is there that the officers show off
their feathers and gold lace.
1t is generally late when the parade is
finished and after supper the private
soldier is ready to go to bed when tattoo
is sounded, and at taps the lights in the
camp are all exiting uished except in the
first sergeante' tents.
The daily programme is to be varied a
little and on Thursday afternoon there
will be a big parade, to be headed by
Governor Morrill, and staff
Major General Hughes says he has
sent for lot of blank cartridges and il
they come in time a sham battle will be
| given.
Altogether. next week will be great
occasion for the citizen soldiers of Kan
sas.
| Rather Amusing.
Governor Morrill, says a Rochester, N.