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WILL ACCLAIM MD.
BOYS AT ADMISSION
Troops Will be Given Il Great Recep-
ton al Camp Mcclellan.

Camp Mcclellan. Admission. Ala,
Sept. 9.-When Johnny from Mary
land comes marching into Camp Nc
Clellan this week there will be a big
hurrah and glad hand to greet MIN.
That is going to be a big part OF the
advent of the Maryland troops They
will probably reach here some time
this week in response to the request
sent to the War Department on Fri
day by Maj. Gen. Charles G. Morton
through the Southeastern depart
ment. Maryland isn't very strongly
represented here as yet, having been
somewhat sighted when orders for
troop movements south were promul-
gated recently, but every man in the
ranks of the three infantry company
detachments, the field artillery bat
terry and cavalry troop who are here
Will try TO make as much noise and
extend three times as warm a wei
come as an average man would do.
The boys down here are longing
for the sound Of old familiar voices.
They want to hear again the music
Of the regimental bands and stacks
of news that the incoming boys will
have to tell them. 1t is going to be
Il big "gabfest' for the boys from
Maryland when they all get together
again.
1t is not only the faces of the en-
listed men who will brighten up as
the troops come marching into camp.
Brigadier General Charles ID. Gather
the commander of the First Mary
land Brigade, consisting of the First,
Fourth and Fifth regiments, wants
to see bis men again, 100. For several
weeks now he has been living atop Il
big high hill and from the doorway
of his brigade headquarters he can
look out over the fields OF corn and
cotton to the range of green-slOped
hills that are almost mountains.
Down at the foot of the hill are doZ
ems of mess ShackS and company kit
chens, all prepared and waiting for
the men that will form his command.
General Gather, who is the Daddy
of all the Marylanders,' d good sol
der and d prince of good fellows al
ways, is anxious TO see the long rows
of khaki-colored tents that soon will
be pitched to extend the lines of the
mess shacks into long company
streets.
When the troops get down here
they will find word aplenty. Camp
isn't ready by any means. None
must think that all that is needed
now is for the companies TO walk in
and lift their canvas tents ad make
themselves at home.
BY no means can they count on
that has cared for every
thing but the driving of the tent
pegs. To begin with, it will be
case of welding the axe, the scythe
and the grub hoe. and the hard work
of pulling stumps and digging dit
cheS. Just like soldiers always have
10 do.
The camp of the Marylanders will
be one of the finest in the reserva-
ton. They are close to the division
headquarters, their camp is well To-
Gated from sanitary and scenic
point of view, and the advantages for
the more restricted drill work are
splendid.
The troop movement contemplated
for this week includes in all approx
mately 10000 soldiers from all the
States that contribute to the Twenty
ninth Division. New Jersey will
send two regiments of infantry and
one of field artillery, as well as a
field hospital and two companies of
the signal corps. Maryland will
send d brigade of infantry, a battal-
ion of field artillery and their ambu-
lance COMPANY