Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

second lieutenant.
Co. f. Skowhegan-Isaac Dyer cap
tain; Brooks d. Savage. first lcuteiai''
Asa S. Emery. second lieutenant
Company +, Augusta-Charl"s r. MOI
ton captain: William II. II. Ware. hrst
lieutenant; Silas w. Wyman, second Heu-
tenant.
Company G. Bangor-Edward f. Smaii'
captain; James NJ. Davis frs leuteh-
ant; Simon A. Hapworth, second leu
tenant.
Company II. Belfast - Andrew Il.
Clarke captain: Fitz NJ Gilbert. first
lieutenant; Allen d. French, second leu
tenant.
/ Co. I. Hampden-Frank G. Flagg. cap
tain; James E. Treban, first lieutenant;
Andrew J. Emery. second lieutenant,
Company X. Old ToWn-MeIville NJ.
Folsom, captain; Oscar f. Hinckley'
first lieutenant; Henry A. Pratt. second
lieutenant.
l The formation of the LIST Infantry left
the following unattached organizations:
Portland Montgomery Guards--Augus-
tus J. MacMahon, captain: Peter s.
Doyle. first lieutenant, Thomas H. Gate
ley. second lieutenant.
l
Andrews, captain: Joseph l.. Small. first
lieutenant Horace NJ. Davis. second
lieutenant.
| Androscoggin Light Artillery ucwis-
ton and Auburn)-Aurestus s. Perham.
Auburn. captain; Charles a. Hunter
Lewiston, first lieutenant; Calvin w.
John Corvlle. Lewiston. second lieutcn-
ant: Thomas b. Meneealcy. Lewiston,
second lieutenant.
The law at this time placed the maxi
mum number of enlisted men to COM
pany at IS. the minimum ut 81. but as
the State OILY issued 60 uniforms to Il
company things did not seem to jlbe.
In 1873. the troops were brought to-
gether near Portland. and in his report
Major General Chamberlain. command
ing, says: The general results of this
first assembly of the State troops were
very satisfactory. The battery was han
died with marked ability and spirit and
the unattached companies We'd with
those of the regiment IN Soldierly &C
oomplishments. The State will look
however as she has a right to. to the
10 privileged companies now comprising
the LIST Regiment. az her main reliance
for military preparation. Tho object and
intent of these organizations are still
kept in sight, and now that they are in
such efficient hands. We should demand
| of them the highest excellence. 1t seems
| to me that they meet the object of main
tanning the spirit and nucleus of the citi-
zen soldiery at the least expense to the
State"
This cncampment must have been 4
good one for in his report as inspector
general Brigadier General j. M1nches-
ter Haynes of Augusta. says:
| "On the occasion of the review of the
command by Major General Chamber
lain and staff the field presented at once
the brilliant pageant of medieval tour
narent with the splendid ranks of mod
orn military science
| Closing his report, Gen. Haynes says:
THE art of war can be acquired only by
| practice in the field. 1t may be diff
cult, after the terrible stimulus of actual
war with the confidence and security
| derived from, victory, to feel much in
| terest in the mock parades of the mus
ter field; but this emotional reaction
| should not draw reason with it."
| The LEGISLATURE of 1871 corrected the
discrepancy between the number of en-
listed men in a company and the num-
Der of uniforms issued. The new law
provided that a company of infantry
should contain no moro than 80 or less
| Than So enlisted men. 1t was also pro-
vid ,d that officers he commissioned for
SIX wears, some question having arisen
in the unattached organizations regard
ing this point.
In 1874, Melville W. Folsom of Ban
| Enp1Cr
Rockand as major of the LIST.
| In 1876 Company e of Auburn had n
new deal of officers. Henry NJ. Spraguc
was made captain; Leonard A. Ray, first
lieutenant, and Frank +. Merrill, sec
| ond lieutenant. In 1876 the CnCampmcnt
was held at Brunswick.
The cncnmpment of lSiS was held at
Watervillc The Legislature of 1873
| failed to elect Il major general and so
Gene al Chamberlain resigned and the
| unattached companies were temporarily
added to the 1st The Legislature of 1879
| remedied matters aud returned Gen.
Chamberlain to his old post In 1879 Col.
Mattocks and Quartcrmaster Gallagher
resigned These were among the dark
| est pages in militia history. The LegiS-
| latures OF 1878 and 1879 refused to pro-
| vide 1unu9 To NV t'ooI'o III
State had agreed when the LIST Regiment
was formed. The inspector generals of
the time made extended reports on the
| Msreputable conditions of tho uniforms.
| Rrigader General S. Clifford Belcher
| of Pennington, in his report. in 1879.
| says: The militia insist that they have
always performed all of tho duties re-
| uuired of them, while the State had
failed to furnish supplies to the militia
as provided by the statute The militia
feel aggricved at this action by the State
and say that it has not kept faith with
| them. 4 great state cannot afford to
break it's faith under the plea of econ
omy."
Tho following year. 1880. saw u new
list and a new I'd, constituted by the
following order:
Adjutant Generals Office.
Augusta. June Is, 1880.
General Order. No 10.
T. The organization heretofore known
| ana designated the 1st Regiment of In
fantry. Maine Volunteer Militia is here
nv djsbarded and all field. staff and