The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
TO CAMP WITH
 REGULAR ARMY General Cole Selects Second Regiment as the One Or ganization of State to
 Go to Madison
 Barracks.
IMITATION WAR PLANNED
There Will be Less Marching Than at Manassas in 1904 Other Regiments Not
 to Leave the State
 This Year.

Arrangements are now being com. pleted for the annual encampment of the Second Regiment this summer. It will undoubtedly come as a complete surprise to many in local National guard circles to learn that it has been decided that the regiment will go to the Madison barracks In Jefferson county, near Watertown, N. Y, where 1t will engage in maneuvers with the regular army, according to exclusive information received by the Journal Courier last night and confirmed by General Cole.
 This scheme of affairs comes with the new system of national guard in the control of the federal government. as 1t has been given it by the new Dix law, which worked toward the abolisb- ment of the military position held by Brigadier-General Russell Frost. of South Norwalk, who with his staff was at the head of the National guard of the state until recently.
 At his home in Hartford last evening Brigadier-General George M Cole said that the plan for the Madison barracks encampn1ent were practically complet- ed. He said that a government appro- priation was forthcoming and that he and his staff had been asked to select one Connecticut regiment to go to the barracks and that the Second regiment of New Haven had been the one chos- en. The encampment will be for about fn, .J ,,, other Connecticut regiments will go at that or any other time this summer. General Cole said that he did not know exactly what the regular army at the place would consist of, but he thought It would be regular encampment, consisting of three regiments of infan- try to squldrons of cavalry and five or six light batteries of artillery.
 One thing is absolutely certain and that is that the maneuvers at the en- campment will be totally different from tonal guard was present, cavalry as conjunction with the regular army wherever it and the Connecticut Ma tional guard have camped together, as at Manassas or Camp Gretna. General Cole said that the work would be much easier, There would be less hard marching and more of the minor tac- ties The general said it would be made as far as possible like actual war"
 At the encampment at Manassas four years ago all of the Connecticut Ma ticna guard was present, cavalry as well as infantry, and the bugbear of the work required was the long march, es The fact that they will not be so important a part in the coming en- campment at Madison barracks will come as welcome news to the members of the Second regiment who will be called on to attend
 General Cole said that such encamp- ments as the coming one at the bar racks would be the regular and expect cd thing in the future with the state national guard. This year the other regiments than the Second of New Ha- ven will stay in the state. Troop A of New Haven, will not go with the Second regiment The coast artillery corps, consisting of the fourteen com- panies of light coast artillery in the state. will go this year to Fort Wright on Fishers Island and Fort Terry on Plum Island for their annual encamp- ment.