Evening star., 1895-06-08
DAYS IN THE SADDLE
Troop AS Proposed Invasion of
Virginia.
4 Two HUNDRED MILE RIDE
CavaIrymen From Other Places to
Join Them.
BUSINESS AND NOT FUN

There is only one topic of conversation
| among the bold troopers of the first sepa-
| rate company of the d. C. National Guard.
| 1t is their approaching march through
| Virginia.
| Troopers sit around their armory and dis
| cuss the question, troopers meet on street
| corners and consider details, troopers call
| each other up on the telephone and ask
| questions about the route and equipment.
| II short just now there is only one date,
| and that is the 18th. For on the 18th Capt.
| Harrison S. Barbour will give the order
| to march to over 100 men, and horses and
! wagons will wheel through the streets of
| Washington, across the Aqueduct bridge,
| through Fort Myer, and thence up through
Virginia. For two weeks following, the
| men of troop will not know the feeling
| of bed. They will march, will fight sham
| battles, clean their own horses. subsist on
| the regulation army food and will be in
| part actual practical soldiers.
Other Troopers to Go.
There i'll be more soldier lads along
| than the members of the District troop.
| In 1891. when the local company practical
| ly demonstrated that civilian soldiers could
carry such march to a successful finish,
| they were accompanied by detail from
| the crack cavalry company in New York
| city, under command of Capt. Roe. This
year also the New York troop will be rep
| resented by a detail of about twenty-five
| men. The Governors Guard of Harris
burg, Pa, will also send a detachment of
| about the same number. Invitations have
| also been sent to the two National Guard
| cavalry companies in Richmond to join
| in the march. and there Is a bright pros
| pect that portions of those companies will
| join the command somewhere on the line
| of march. 49,.
Roster of the Troop.
The entire command will be under Capt
| Harrison Barbour Of the local company.
| The following is the troops roster:
Commissioned officers: Capt. H. s. Bar
| bour, First Lieut.. c. L. Beatty, Second
! Lieut.. E. H. Plllsbury.
Sergeants: r. d. Simms, Fred. Spring
mann. J. w. Conrad. ]. H. McChesney. A.
w. Simpson. c. E. Finch.
Corporals: ]. c. Taylor, jr., F. A. Thuee,
]. F. Fitzgerald, r. L. Euhbank.
Trumpeter: Willis E. Reynolds
Privates: Walter Acton, L. b. Burdett
| w. H. Cameron, H. W. Carpenter. Jerome
Carew, William Carroll, H. Donovan. Jo-
fseph H Douglas, VIM. b. Fenwick. Albert
F. Ferguson. G. w. Gardner, A. B. Gleason.
| Geo. NJ. Hale, G. J. Hasson. H. B. Hedrick,
| Geo. A. Howe. i T. Hunter, Foster w.
Chas. E. Lanning, G. W. Linthicum. ]. f.
| Martin. jr., E. H. Neumeyer, jr., Harry
Poet-nann, j. r. Ragland. Joseph d. Rup-
pert. John G. Schlesser Saml H. Shlom-
berg, Thos. F.. Smith, Howell Stewart, F.
| B. Swart. Markey w. Stouffer. Charles r.
| Taylor, F. ]. Van Ness, Geo. Won Dachen-
| hansen and Albert w. White.
All of these men will at least start out
| with the command, although a few will not
| be able to go the entire march. There will
| also be a considerable number Of "ex' and
| honorary members of the command who
will mount horses and ride with the troop
| ers.
The United States army will be repre-
| sented by Lieut.. Short one sergeant and
two privates. who have been detailed from
| Fort Myer to accompany the amateurs for
| the purpose of instruction.
The Itinerary.
The troop this year will confine its wan
| derings to Virginia soil. the topography af-
fordng better opportunities for military
instruction than the neighboring counties
of Maryland.
The itinerary will be as follows: To Fair
fax Court House, via Fort Myer; to Bull
Run. via Centerville: to Warrenton, via
| Gainesville; to Marshall, to Fort Royal. to
Strasburg, to Winchester, to CastlemanS
Ferry on the Shenandoah, to Leesburg, via
Round Hill. to Falls Church, to Washing
ton. The total distance to be marched is
about 2o2 miles, and fifteen days will be
allowed to cover the entire route.
The only long camps on the route will
he at Warrenton, Leesburg and Winches-
ter, where two days each will be spent.
The boys have been assured of royal
time at these hospitable places, and the
promises will undoubtedly be fulfilled The
other camps will be for only a night each,
and in many of them no tents will be
erected. and the men will sleep out, with
the stars for a covering and saddles for
pillows.
Lieut. Rennie, who is adjutant Of the
sixth battalion, but Is an old member of
the troop and practical cavalryman at
that is now on his way riding over the
route and arranging for camping places
and green forage. He reports that the
greatest interest is felt in the coming of
the troops by all classes
Ready for Business.
AS the command wheels out toward
Georgetown on the 18th it will present
busness-lke appearance. There will be
over one hundred practical looking soldiers
In line. They will not be dressed for pa
rade or for beauty, but for work. Campaign
hats, fatigue uniforms. leggins and spurs
will make up the clothes, carbines and
saberS will make UP the arms, while sad
ole bags and blanket rolls will contain the
other bare necessities for two. weeks. Be
hind the command will come formidable
array of wagons. There will be five big
four-horse teams, containing tents and
stores, canteen wagon, rendered the COM
the water cart There will be detail from
the ambulance corps along, and a surgeon
for the men and another for the horses.
In the wagons will be tents for one hun
dred men, forage for one hundred and fifty
horses. and provisions for one hundred
men. The horses for the trip have nearly
all been secured in Virginia.
The COmmissary.
The. commissary and quartermaster's de-
partments Of trip like this are vitality
important. as on the good or bad manage
ment of these depends the comfort or dis