The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-07-11
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STATE ENCAMPMENT.
Citizen Soldiery to Pitch Tents at Fred
erick. Annual Outing for Mill
tary Drill and Instruction to
be Held July Is to 25.

Camps and arms are now the care by day
and the dreams by night of the citizen
soldiery of Maryland. All are busy pre-
pairing for the encampment which will be
held at Frederick; from July l. TO %. Arms
are being polished, uniforms frightened up
or replaced by newer garments and drills
and evolutions are being studied as never
before. Officers of the various battalions
have been attending school at the armo-
Ties to better acquaint themselves with
guard duty 1t camp. The widows y fund
is being daily added to.
WILL HAVE 1000 TENTS.
The United States Government has
granted the State the use of 4 tents for
the Frederick encampment. This will
swell the total number to 1900 and make
the accommodations ample. Lieut.. Elwood
w. Evans of the Eighth Cavalry, [. S. A.,
has been detailed to inspect the camp.
Preliminary orders have been issued and
others are expected July 6. Wherever
two National Guardsmen meet the topic of
conversation j. the encampment
Colonel Saunders, Major Spence and
Lieutenant. Colonel Mclean have been to
Frederick and officially laid out the ground
for the encampment. The camp will be
located on a portion IF Bellevue, the we'll
known farm of Mr.. Charles y. IIazlett
1t is about one-f)ur of a mile east of
Frederick.
The troop, are all infantry, but the
Fourth Regiment will take a gun along to
fire salutes The question now agitating
the officers is what sort of gun to take
They all agree that they want something
which will make noise. Whether a breech
loader or an old brass field piece of ancient
pattern will best ill that hill is an open
question which must soon be decided
PLENTY OF MILITARY DUTY.
1t will be a busy encampment, full of
duty. There will be guard duty and out
post duty and drill and all other exercises
connected with well-regulated military
camp. The officers of the various regiments
will make a special effort to induce en-
ployers to allow the soldiers to 90 to camp
and stay the full time. 1t will be IA sort of
outing, the only outing which many will
have during the year, and it is thought
the value of the guard in time of trouble
will more than repay business men for the
little time lost.
CANNOT EASILY RESIGN.
The soldier who now enlists in the Ma
tional Guard takes upon himself consider
able responsibility. He cannot step out
when he chooses as heretofore The num-
erous designations recently of commissioned
officers has led Adiutant-Genrral Wilmer,
Brigaler-Ceneral Riggs and Colonel Phipps
to take action in the matter. The new
military law provides that the soldier who
enlsts in the National Guard must serve
three years, unless excused on account
of disability or for some other good reason.
Officers intending to resign hereafter must
notify brigade headquarters of their inten-
ton, and must make formal application.
1t will be Investigated and acted upon,
and unless good reason is given for re-
resignation will not he accepted.
There is to he more of business, too, and
less Of the merrymaking summer outin"
about the encampment of the State troops
at Frederick this year. In the orders for
the encampment of the three regiments
constituting the First Brigade Gen. Law
rason Riggs has been specific. The military
precision of the orders will be followed by
military eNactncSs at the camp. The or
der provides that the First Brigade, Mary
land National Guard shall 90 into camp
near Frederick July Is and remain until
the following saturday.
TO break up a practice of recruiting men
nerely for the eucampment, it is provided
that no man recruited after July I, will
he permitted in camp except by personal
Illness or illness in the family requiring the
attention of the member. This must be
attested to by a physician.
ruOD !Np MEDICINE.
The chief quartermaster will lay out the
camp and furnish camp eqipage and sup
plies, as well as transpo tation for the
troops and baggage. The Grief commits
sary will furnish subsistence fur the en-
listedmen. Cooks will be employed by
the direction of regimental commanders.
Medical stores will be supplied by the
chief Surgeon.
To EE PAID PROMPTLY.
Payrolls for duty will be signed and de-
livered at the brigade headquarters in the
field by 9 o'clock Saturday, July %, and
the troops will then receive their pay.
Heretofore they were obliged to wait for it,
sometimes for months.
Immediately on the arrival OF the troops
in camp the regimental adjutants must for
ward to the brigade headquarters in the
field morning reports showing the entire
strength of the command present for duty.
The reports must be verified by muster
rolls which will be submitted to the in
spectng officer on Sunday, July -. Gain
or loss of men must he noted in the morn