Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-20
Daily kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA LOCALS
the MusTER.
Adjulani General richards Issues Order. for
That Great Event.

Adjutant General Richards has issued
the following orders, the first relating
TO the muster, and the second to the
personnel of the officers of the COM
panies: The orders are as follows;
State of Maine.
Adjutant Generals Office.
General Orders, No. 16.
The annual encampment of the land
forces Of the National Guard will be
held during the third and fourth weeks
Of August.
The greater portion of the Guard
having expressed desire to extend the
tour of each organization to seven
days, on the same condition as to pay
ment as heretofore, arrangements will
be made for the concentration at the
State encampment ground at Augusta
as follows:
First Infantry will proceed to the
place of concentration, Saturday, Aug.
H. 1t will break camp and its several
companies will return to their stations,
Friday, Aug. II.
Signal corps will report at the COM
handing officers camp, Saturday, Aug
II. 1t will break camp and return to
its station. Friday, Aug. II.
Second Lieut.. Warren E. Kicker,
commanding the ambulance corps, will
report to the commanding officers
camp, Saturday, Aug. II, with a detail
of 10 men in his command. He will be
assigned to duty at the camp hospital
and be ordered to report to the surgeon
in charge. Lieut.. Kicker will remain
on duty at camp. until Aug. "a, report
ing on the 18th to the officer then in
command. who assigns him to duty as
above. At the expiration of the first
week, Lieut.. Kicker will order a second
detail of 10 men of the corps to report
at camp to relieve the detail on duty
which will at once return to its home
station.
Second Infantry will proceed to the
place of concentration, on Saturday
Aug. IS. 1t will break camp and its
several companies return to the station
Friday, Aug. "a.
Company cooks will be ordered to
Augusta in advance of their companies
so that those First Infantry may be in
camp on the morning of Saturday, Aug
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The colonies of the First and Second
RtRIItIltS, Will tuclI eilld
commissary sergeants, will assume
their duties in camp on the mornings
OF Saturday, Aug. 18th, and 18th. re-
spectively.
Quartermaster and quartermaster
sergeants from each regiment will
assume their duties on the mornings
of Friday, Aug. 10th and 18th respec-
lively.
Col. Lucius II. Kendall, First Infan-
try, will have the command of the
camp for the week. Aug. 18th to 18th,
inclusive, and Col. Everard E. New
comb. Second Infantry. will have COM
mand for the week of Aug. 18th to gath,
inclusive.
Muster rolls in triplicate must be pre-
pared before entering camp. Uniformed
enlisted men will not be brought to camp
and no substitutes will be permitted No
officer or enlisted men will be paid who
does not render at least three full days
service within periods from 18th to 10th
and Goth to 23d August.
The authority of the officer in command
of the camp will be extended to a dis
lance of one-half mile around camp
ground Special attention will be given
to the enlistment of competent company
cooks and age and weight limits may be
waived and they may be given protracted
furloughs.
Regimental commanders will order no
more than one medical examination OF
recruits in a company prior to encamp-
ment. Company commanders will upon
completion of enlistments, but not later
than Aug. I. send to regimental head
quarters, to be forwarded to the State
office, lists of recruits awaiting medical
examination and muster. Men re-enlisted
subsequent to medical examination re-
cruits may be examined and mustered IN
at encampment
Augusta, July Il, 1900