The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-29
|RG|NA TROOPS
On TO GETTYSBURG
All in Bustle Getting Ready
For ManoeuvreS at
Gettysburg
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WILL BE REVIEWED
BY TWO GOVERNORS
Executive of the Old Dominion
and aryland Expected to Make.
Joint Inspection--Artillery
to Mobilize Here.

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What promises to be one of the most
important features of the summer
naanoeuvres of the Virginia and Mary
/. land troops at Gettysburg will be
3eant review by the Governors of these
4 9wo States. Governor Mann is now
nxranginE his affairs to spend several
dAys at the encampmenI. though ne
Il has not yet announced when he VIII
loave The volunteers will carry on
their war game for ten days and 1t IS
LIKELY that the review of the infantry
men and artillerymen will be inspected
BY him and Governor Crothers on
Bmstie Among Soldiers.
Activity is now the keynote OF all
military circles in Virginia. Final
ureparations have been about complet~
"a for the departure OF the troops
Thursday night. Richmond will be one
u the largest moelltsing points an
the Commonwealth.
Here the three batteries composing
the fieid artillery battalion, consisting
+ Uf more than three hundred men, will
Hatker Under command Of Major I.
NJ. Workman the artillergmen VIII
leave Thursday night at S;4b o'clock
By way of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway.
A special train will be readiness for
the three batteries. Twelve field
pieces and the usual caissons and
wagon rains will he shipped GA the
same train with the soldiers. Horses
Will be provided when the command
reaches Gettysburg
The artillerymen will be turned over
70 regular troops who will supply
mounts for the officers and the neCes-
sary harness and equipment for the
field rifles and army wagons.
The Norfolk Light Artillery Blues
Battery Il. and Grimes Battery. Bat
terry G, OF Portsmouth, VIII reach Rich
mond Thursday evening about 5; 80 or
8 o'clock. They VIII come here by way
OF the Norfolk and Western Railway.
They viii likely be marched to the
Howitzers armory until train time,
when, in Ii body, the ~earers Of the
red stripes Will march in a body to the
Z. and O., Main Street Deport.
Their route viii he to Basic, Va.
Here the Norfolk and Western will
pick up the train and carry il to Ha-
gerstown and from there the route
A viii be over the Western Maryland
Railway direct 10 the encamp
Our Companies to Washinoton.
The First Regiment, Virginia Noiun-
teers, OF which the first battalion Is
stationed In Richmond, viii mobolize
h IN Washington, before daybreak Fri
aay morning. The firSs section OF this
Z frAins bearing the regiment will leas,
Richmond Thursday night from Elba
station by. way OF the Richmond
4 Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway
1t 1890 O'Clock.
On this section will be Goyerno,
Mann, commander In chief OF the Wiz.
ginia volunteers; Adjutsnt Genera
William Wilson Sale, and General G
y. Vaughan, commanding the Vir.
6inia brigade. The First Battalion
under command Of Major Lawrence T
n Price, Will also be on this special
Z The battalion will assemble at tn
Regimental Armory. in Seventh street
about O'Clock. The first call viii
be bounded at $40 o'clock, the seeon,
IT 9:30 and the adjutant's, and last
ut $40. The four companies, A. 4
Il q and FIR, will then begin their marcl
UP Broad street to Elba. The infan
trymen will be followed by their bag
bage train.
The second section will leave staun
u ION under command of Colonel vii
Liam ]. Perry. commanding officer o
the FIRST Regiment
The third section will leave Dan
VILE. bearing troops from that place
Lynchburg. Farmviile and Cuipepei
b The three sections will meet At Wash
4 lngtOn. and leave together for tn
camp site. They are expected to reae
Gettysburg about 6 o'clock Frida
morning.
Arrangements Almost Perfect.
The Gettysburg encampment LIS con
{ 1idered model. Uncle Sam ha
4 spared no expense with regard to san
n Hat
I visiting of showers, have been pro
wided for the use OF the nationa
& Iuardsmen.
Before noon Friday there will be
big tented city near the point wher
S the tide OF the Civil War was turned
Visitors are now focking to aettys
u burg to watch the citizen soldiers &,
through their war game.
The rebel yell OF Pickett's BrIgad
Will again resound over the roilin,
country and reawaken the echoes 0
IL Little Roundtop.
The site OF the camp Is about tvs,
miles from Gettysburg. IT will not b.
u IN the historic battlefield. This is du
II 70 the fact that the point where tn
Bino and Gray @aged one OF tn
Il hloodiest and bitterest battles of tn
war OF half century ago, has beer
4 c0nyertsd into = national park. r.,
permit It's Use as a playground b,
II the militiamen would cost the gov
eminent all of it's work, which hai
u made the site q beautiful wonderland
On this account the War Depart
u nAent has leased several thousan
a0res where the game of war will b.
y 4Uught 20 finish.
Routine OF Army Life.
The rigid routine of army life viii
- carried out. the soldiers arising a
AZ ~ NJ. with the sound OF reyeille
ND retiring with taps at O'Clock.
M The troops CHARTERED there Will b,
1vided into two small armies ant
III 4AAee win wage a technically blood,
nrxare. There will be midnight raid,
AMA early morning attacks This Il
! ueln9 done 10 thoroughly acauaint tn.
NJ @n11ttiamen with what their lot viii
81 - IN the time of actual hostilitie,
t1A other powers.
70 provide against any possibilit,
NJ nEcidents. no ammunition will b,
pnxtted BY any of the troops. Bianl
I o4TtAge4 viii be used by the infan
II t1ynnen. while the artsllerymen viii
~ KENT themselves at firing blanl
4<0k-inch shells at an imaginary foe.
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