Evening star., 1901-06-21
THE ANNUAL CAMP
Orders Giving Additional Details Of
National Guard Outing.
SERVICE CONDITIONS TO Be OBSERVED
Brigade Dress Parade Daily On
and After July 10.
COM MISS AIRY S UP PHI E S

COM MISSA AIRY SUPPLIES
Col. Theodore Mosher. adjutant general
Of the District of Columbia militia, this
afternoon issued the third of the series of
general orders giving the details of the
coming annual encampment of the troops
of the District of Columbia National Guard.
All that remains to be published relative to
the encampment Is order setting forth
the list of calls in accordance with which
the various routine duties in camp, includ-
ing drills and the like. will be regulated.
The general orders issued today provide
as follows:
The annual encanpment beginning July
IS next, will deal as nearly as possible with
actual service conditions, and particular
attention will be paid to guard duty and
extended-order drill. Camp guard duty will
be by regiments and separate battalion,
and in addition to the required guard de-
tails for each regimental and separate bat
TALON guard there will be detailed daily,
beginning July Is. one corporal and five
privates from each regiment and the sep
arate battalion. to constitute a brigade
headquarters guard, and, in addition, be-
ginning with the 2d Regiment July IS the
two regiments will alternate in Disabling
daily n lieutenant as the commander of the
headquarters guard and a sergeant of the
same guard. These details will be duly
mounted daily, at the guard mounting of
the respective organizations to which they
belong. and will be required to fall out on
reaching the regimentaI separate bat
talon guard tent. and thence ordered to be
reported without delay by the officer or
senior commissioned officer of the de-
tail to the adjutant general at brigade
headquarters.
From each detail of five privates thus re-
ported for headquarters guard duty a head
quarters orderly will be selected. Regi-
mental commanders will detail. as far as
practicable. entire companies in furnishing
their quota for guard; the commanding
officer. LIST Separate Battalion. an entire
platoon The band and corps of field music
VIII alternate in the performance of duty
AT guard mountIngS, except on sue. davs
when special eXigencieS of the service will
render necessary specific orders from bri-
gade headquarters on the subject.
First Guard Duty.
The tour of the nrst guard will begin at
the railroad station at S o'clock am. july
is. For this duty the commanding officer
OF each regiment and the separate battal-
ion will detail a captain as officer of the
day, and company, or platoon. to consist
OF not less than one lieutenant one ser
geant. three corporals and twenty-one pri-
Yates. three of the latter for duty as regi-
mental and battalion orderlies in addition
to the details for headquarters guard. These
6udlu NcAdllS VIII De reported, at the time
and place designated, to the regimental or
separate battalion officer of the day who
VIII report for orders to Major Glendie b.
Young, 3d Battalion. who is detailed as
held officer of the day for JULY Is next
The guard thus detailed will complete IFS
tour and be relieved the morning of July
~, in the usual manner, after guard mount
ing, under the direction of the old field of
hcer of the day.
No guard duty will be required of the En-
gineer Corps, Signal Corps or Ambulance
Corps, except such as, in the opinion of
the commander of each of those organfza-
tlons. may be necessary, by running roster
for the immediate protection of their camps
and property.
The cOuntersign and parole will be pub
Hshed daily from brigade headquarters and
furnished for the information and guidance
of all concerned.
The headquarters old guard will perform
old guard fatigue, teginning al fatigue call
on the day following the completion of its
tour of guard duty; to this end all head
quarters old guard details will be promptly
reported at fatigue call to such non-com-
mlssioned officer as may be designated by
competent authority to supervise fatigue or
police duty in the headquarters camp
The wearing of blue flannel shirts with
out blouses Is authorized during the en-
campment. except at guard mounting and
parades; but when so worn the use of sus-
penders IS prohibited.
There will be a morning and an evening
gun fired by permanent detail under the
III,
the greatest care and caution are enjoined
against all possibility of danger or acci-
dent. The morning gun will be fired in the
manner prescribed at reveille, and the
evening gun at retreat.
The band and corps of field music will
be assembled daily at the flagstaff at the
assembly for reveille- At reveille the field
music viii play march, marching through
camp in a manner hereafter to be indi-
Gated timing its return to the flagstaff so
as to begin the playing of reveille at that
point The band Immediately on the COM
pletion Of reveilie will play the Star Span
gled Banner, in compliment to the ma
tional colors.
AT retreat the field music will play re-
treat, and Immediately upon its completion
the band will play the Star Spangled
Banner in compliment to the national
eolOrs.
Brigade Parades.
Brigade parades will be held daily on
and after July 10.
The office of the adjutant general will be
open from o'clock am. to 5 o'clock pm
for transaction of official business.
The following additional regulations rela-
tive to duties in camp are published for the
general guidance Of all concerned:
Commanding officers will read all gem
eral orders and circulars that have been
issued relative to the camp. or that may be
issued during the encampment, to their
companies at the first assembly after they
After the first day consolidated morning
reports of regiments and separate bat
taliOns {and morning reports of separate
Companies) will be sent to the office of the
adjutant general daily before 10 o'clock
All formations of a company must be at
tended by at least of its officers, and
there will be three stated roll calls-re-
veille, assembly for retreat-parade and tat
too.
AT each stated roll call, except dress pa
rade, the commanding officer of each bat
TALON will station himself in front of his
headquarters, and the adjutant will station
himself ne~r him TO receive the reports of
the company officers experimenting roll
calls The company officer making the
port and the adjutant salute each other.
Military courtesy requires the junior to
salute first, but when the salute is intro
ductory to a report made at a military
ceremony or formation to the representa-
tive of a common Superior-as, for example
to the adJutant, officer of the day. etc.-the
officer making the report, whatever his
rank, will salute first; the officer TO whom
the report is made will acknowledge that
he haS af nd 4 he