The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-08
VI. SOLDIERS
ARE TO LEAVE
FOR NEW CAMP
WestfieId Camp Soon to be
Deserted
ARE TO GO SOUTH
Tapte Mou, p.;rr r,Ln. r,n,.. ,nl
Tents Now Being Taken Down and
Brigade May Leave Sometime
Next Week.

camp Bartlett, Hampton Plains,
Nov. Brig Gen. f. Leroy Sweetzer,
in command OF the separate units
originally designed to form the Depot
Brigade of the Goth Division. arrived
in Westfeld tonight to begin tho re-
organization OF the several regiments
in accordance with the latest plans Of
the War Department.
Gen. Sweetzer will remain at camp
tomorrow until the work is well un-
der way when he will return to Bos-
ton. The first move will be in relA
ton to the First New Hampshire In
fantry. This regiment, in the COM
mand OF Col. NJ ]. Healy Is to be
transformed into headquarters pion.
eer infantry regiment ono OF the
first in this branch OF the service to
be formed.
There are noY about 400 men la
the First New Hampshire. To These
Will be added more than 1000 men
and several officers to round cut tho
regimental complement The. dIitios
OF the regiment in Its new nesigna
ton Will consist OF acting as corps
troops, traffic military police and in
the general work OF pioneer regi-
ment It il understood some OF the
men VIII be taken from the First
Maine Heavy Artillery and that the
remainder wiz be forthcoming from
sources not as yet named.
IL is doubtful if the entire reorgan-
ization is completed at Westfeid, but
viii probably be finished In the south
Early departure OF the regiment Tor
Europe is indicated in tho latest Or
DEF. y e.s,.ss.
Meantime, the other infantry or
CARNATIONS at Camp BARTLETT, are
ready for the changes indicated, They
will remain as infantry, although it is
possible that the remnants OF tho
Sixth Massachusetts Infantry may be
made into Military Headquarters
and Mounted Police Train
The fate Of the Maine Artillery a.
an artillery regiment is not known,
but indications point to its absorp-
ton in the older commands before
the reorganization is finished. Brig
Gen. Sweetzer would not give the full
details of the contemplated plans.
but they will be hurried to an early
completion.
Gen. Sweetzer said tonight the stay
OF the troops at Westfield Is niotter
Of DAYS only. He said it is the iften-
tlon now to remove all troops OF his
command in New England to some
southern point on or before Nov, l5.
In addition to the soldiers at Camp
Bartlett. there are infantrymen al
Framingham, New Haven, Conn, and
artlllerymen at Boxford Included In
the infantry organization plans are
the Fifth. Sixth and Eighth Maasach-
usetts and the First Vermont and tho
Connecticut outfit Two separate
signal companies OF Connecticut end
New Hampshire and the provisional
colored battalion at Camp Bartlett
win be cared for In the changes,
Men to fill up the ranks of all tho
outfits will be forthcoming, and tho
whole brigade and the attached units
sill be whipped into shape for an
early departure for foreis.u soil. a
The major portion OF the canvas at
Camp Bartlett has been ieveled.
Rifle practice on special range, CON
structed under the direction OF Mai
Cushing Of the Eighth Massachusetts.
has fitted many of the men who were
recent recruits for active field sery-
ice and has offered Va welcome break
in the camp routine.