The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-02
HISTORIC FIELD
NOW TENTED CITY
At Gettysburg, Virginia
Soldiers Are Playing
Warfare.
CAMP is PITCHED
FOR MANOEUVRES
Old Dominion Guardsmen, 2,ooo
Strong, With Commands From
Maryland and Regular Army,
Begin Ten Days of Military
Instruc t 10 n-Hard
Journey Completed.
by ALEXANDER FORWARD.


Camp OF Instruction, Gettysburg. Pa.
July within sight of the spo. which
marked the high tide OF the War Be-
tween the States forty seven years ago.
to-day 1000 Virginia soldiers OF a
younger generation have pitched their
tents and for ten days they will
play at modern warfare along with
militlamen from the sister State OF
Maryland and with commands from the
regular army.
Worn out by night OF hot weather.
travel and by Indifferent train service
in some instances, the men put in a
hard days work preparing for the
encampment. Immediately after de-
training, the march to the camp was
begun, and 1t was late in the after
| noon when the tents had been raised
and the soldiers could get some rest
and sleep.
Negroes Cause Alarm.
Then, what Klpling would call IA
thin black line OF negroes" marched
ca sually eastward from division head
quarters and into the hollow below the
| First Virginia.
| The men woke up. They thought
they knew that some one bad blund-
cred, and were not at all satisfied that
| 1t was not theirs to reason why.
However, 1t was stated at the head
quarters of General ". w. Wither-
spoon. commander of the encampment.
| in reply to direct question from The
Times-Dispatch representative, that
the only colored soldiers in camp were
about thirty enlisted men detached
from the War College. They are in
no case to drill with the troops. but
are to act as orderlies. But they don't
look good to the yirginians.
] I'VE shall have to shoot somebody
| In order to get hospital started" said
| the division adjntant, despondently.
The only Virginian reported sick is
Paymaster-General Chase H. Consolvo,
| OF Norfolk. Colonel Consolvo's indis-
| position is not serious.
Camps Pitched.
| Absolutely nothing In the way OF
| practice instruction was imposed up
on the national guardsmen to-day.
Their trip and the work of pitching
camp was regarded as sufhcient task.
| And 1t was enough for most OF them
The Second Virginia arrived at 5;2a
| o'clock seven minutes ahead of time.
| The trip via Hagerstown was nnevent-
! full. Travelling Passenger Agent M r.
| Bragg, of the Norfolk and Western.
| Hooked after the troops The Flrst
Regiment came in two sections. Splen-
| did time was made on the Richmond
| fredericksburg and Potomac by the
| First Battalion. 1t pulled Into Alex
J andria with half an hour 10 spare, 10
| the delight OF Traffic Manager Waiter
Taylor. who came through to the camp.
| It took half an hour to load the Alex
andria company.
\ There was a delay of an hour IN
! Washington awaiting the arrival OF the
| Second and Third Battalions, complet.
ing the mobilization of the regiment
| The late -comers took the lead Tor the
| remainder of the trip.
The Western Maryland is small
! sinele-track road, and the engineer ol
| the second section actually ran by sigh,
| much OF the way after leaving Balti-
| more keeping the first section short
] distance ahead- lhese ttdins Weie
about an hour late.
During their unloading the Fourth
Regiment appeared from the West. and
was held at Gettysburg Station for an
I hour until 1t was completed. Briga-
/ der General C. C. Vaughan. with his
staff, was aboard this train
Worst Experience.
The Field Artillery had the worst
experience. Due at s o'clock, 1t did
not arrive until noon. The three bat
4 teries are commanded by Major Wor-
than. They are located with the Third
Field Artillery. U. S. a., fully half a
mile southwest Of the division head
! quarters. To the south of the artillery
is the Fourth Regiment. under Colonel
Nottingham.
The First Virginia is far to the east,
/ with the First Maryland and the Twen-
ty-ninth Infantry. Colonel Perrys
headquarters are on rise overlooking
most of the camp. To these extreme
south of the field is located Colonel
Leedy, with the Second.
General Vaughan is furthest south
of all The executive tent lis in charge
OF Major c, L. Wright, adjutant general
of the Virginia Brigade.
Perhaps the Fifth Cavalry, opposite
the Howitzers, attracts most attention
from the visitors Seeing the camp is
tremendous undertaking, for the city
of tents Is immense Five thousand
troops are on the ground. But the
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