Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-12
. HE last companies of the Ma
tional Guard left Camp Fernald
at 100 Wednesday afternoon

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! at 100 Wednesday afternoon
and the flag at general head
quarters was slowly dropped to the
ground, while the I'd Regiment band .of
Bangor played THE Star Spangled
Banner" thus closing the 10-days
tour Of duty. The troops departed for
| home on various trains during the
| forenoon and early afternoon all in
good humor and thoroughly satisfied
with the work of the encampment.
| which has been one of the most sue
| cessful in the history of the volunteer
militia of the State.
Companies b. c and X left Camp
Fernald at s AZ NJ. on special cars If
the Lewiston, Augusta & Watervilla
st. Ry., transferring at Winthrop to
the Maine Central Railroad train,
which left for Lewiston at 9.47 A. NJ,
Companies and K transferred at
Leeds Junction to regular train.
which left for Livermore Falls and
Pennington at 1915 A. NJ. Company
lar train, which left for Rumford
Falls at las p. NJ.
Companies F., F, G., H and Band and
the Hospital Corps detachment left on
special train over the Maine Central
Railroad for Waterville at . p NJ.
Company f transferred at Waterville
to Train 10, which left for Skowheg1n
at Alp P. M. Company G and the
Band transferred at Waterville TO
Train II. which left for Bangor at 3.35
p, NJ Company f transferred at
Waterville to Train 10. which left for
Newport Junction at Ais P. NJ, and AZ
Newport Junction to Train So, which
left for Foxcroft at 5.28 P. NJ
Company D left on the regular
Maine Central train for Portland at
9.36 A. NJ. transferring at Yarmouth
Junction to regular train over Grand
Trunk Railway. leaving for Norway 1T
| 2 P NJ
Company M LETT Camp Fernald III
$50 A. M and marched at once to the
armory.
Companies l and L left on the regu-
lar train for Bangor at 1905 P. NJ.
Company l. transferred at Northern
Maine Junction to regular train over
the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
leaving for Houlton at 500 p NJ. Com
pany / transferred at Bangor to regu-
lar train over Mt. Desert branch and
Washington County Railroad, leaving
for EaStport at $50 p NJ.
Company A left on special car over
the Lewiston. Augusta & Watervil'r
ST Ry. at 100 p. NJ.
Travel rations were issued and taken
in haversacks on the return to the
home stations of the companies COM
ing from distance. The trains east
and west as they departed from the
Augusta station taking home the Cit
| zen soldiers of the I'd were watched
| by many, particularly of the fair sex,
who had become acquainted with the
guardsmen during their stay in the
| city. Companies K and l. of the 5th
United States Infantry who were de-
tailed here by orders of the war de-
| partment for this tour Of duty. broke
camp at an early hour Wednesday
| morning and at $50 started on their
march to Tacoma Lake in Litchfied,
where the detachment will camp for
! the night on the first stage of their
| homeward hike" to the barracks in
Plattsburg, n Y.
The Bath celebration committee ex-
pected that it would be able to secure
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| the command to visit that city, but
| was unable to do SO. 1t is supposed
| that the detachment could not go to
Bath because it has now been away
from the barracks for a month. having
left Plattsburg. July 10, and it will he
nearly the 1st Of September before its
| return.
The work of the I'd Regiment at
| Camp Fernald has been highly salts
| factory to the officers in charge and
| they do not hesitate to express their
| commentator of the work done in the
| highest terms Two features con-
tributed more to the success of the en-
campment than any others. One was
the excellent weather. rain not inter
fering for single day with any of tn :
| duties of the encampment. which was
quite different from the situation last
year when it rained some during near
| ly every day of the encampment. The
other was the disposition to work upon
the part of officers and men shown
throughout the encampment.
Adjutant General Elliott c. Dill in
discussing the work of the encamp
ment said: Il am very much pleased
Will 'ii0 opiiit VI Wofh WHICH tHe Vi
GERS and men have shown throughout
the encampment. I am also very
much pleased that they have not only
learned how to do the work for which
they came here. but have also con
Quoted themselves both about the
camp and in the city in a gentlemanly
and orderly manner which has caused
much favorable comment from the
residents of Augusta
| Col. Everard E. Newcomb, the COM
manding officer of the I'd Regiment de-
clared that the encampment has beer
highly satisfactory" Both officers and