Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-04-29
Coming to Staunton.

NVluAuS " OtouuIOu.
Colonel Samuel E. Gleaves, LIST
Lieutenant LIST Cavalry U. S. A. and
Commandant of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute of Lexington and Cap
tain J. W. Gilmore, Commissary and
Quartermaster of that institution will
arrive in STAUNTON this morning
ON horseback. They are going over
the route which will be Travelled in
May by the cadet battalion of the
Institute in march from Lexington
to STAUNTON and return.
The battalion will leave Lexington
on May with full equipment for a
weeks march. They will camp at
Fairfield and Greenvllle and are ex-
pected to reach STAUNTON on the
18th and to remain here that night
and a part of the next day. The re-
turn will be made by way of Middle
brook and Brownsburg. The cadets
will 90 into camp in STAUNTON,
probably at the Fair Grounds. and
their stay here may be prolonged to
two days or more.
The entire cadet battalion composed
of six companies and numbering over
800 cadets will participate.
AS stated in the DISPATCH of yes
terday Col. S. R. Gleaves and Capt.
J. W.Gilmore arrived in STAUNTON
Tuesday night and spent yesterday
here arranging for the march to be
made here by the V. M. I. Corps OF
cadets, beginning on May 9th. They
leave this morning for Lexington on
their return trip having perfected ar
rangements necessary to the march.
These gentlemen called at the DIS
PATCH Office and in a conversation
with them they stated that if it would
be a pleasure to the STAUNTON
people to see the corps i'll formation
and suitable point could be obtain
ed where the battalion could form,
they would be delighted to go through
such formation, but that dress pa
rade would be impossible, since the
cadets would be in marching togs,
and carried no ''frills'' with
them. They would necessarily be
somewhat begrimed by the march,
and could not make the showing
which they would like, still they
could make a demonstration of theil
training. They were assured that
nothing would please STAUNTON
people more than to welcome the
corps and our people would view any
maneuvers with great interest. There
has always been much admiration ex-
listing here for the cadets, but it has
never been but once before that the
citizens of STAUNTON were treated
to visit by that body. That was
long ago, SO long that only our older
citizens remember it. 1t was on that
memorable May morning gin 1864
when the battalion marched through
STAUNTON down the Valley, to write
its name on immortal tablets, which
it did few days later, at New Mark
ct on that bloody. battle field. There
are several points suggested kwhere
the battalion might make the forma-
tion and where they would be seen
by our people. The parade grounds
of the STAUNTON Military Acade
my appealed to them more than any
other, but unfortunately Capt Kable
was not present and the talk was only
speculative Should those grounds
be obtainable and they are of suffi-
cient size to accommodate the bat
tallion and the visitors, they would be
ideal. The corps will not carry its
band, SO music for the occasion must
be procured here, which can easily be
lone. Should the weather smile our
people will be treated to a splendid
display of soldierly training, since the
esprit d. corps is of very high char
acter. Col. Gleaves is the Professor
IF Military Science and Commandment
IF Cadets. Capt. J. w. Gilmore is
Commissary and Quartermaster.
Col. Gleaves is 1st Lieutenant LIST
Cavalry, U. S. A. and a graduate of
West Point. He is son of Col. ]. L.
Ileaves Of Wytheville well and IA
vorably known here as connected
with the U. S. Marshal's Office.
He informs us that the cadets will
spend one whole day here resting.
Their first day out will possibly be
% Fairfield thence to Greenville
thence here.
Arrangements for the commence
nent week of the Virginia Christian
College at Lynchburg which is to
AXE place May 1871 are being COM
pie ted by the college authorities. 1t |
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