The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
Vt. REGIMENT
IS TO Be SENT
TO CHARLOTTE
Assigned to Training Camp
in North Carolina
DATE is NOT FIXED
All the New Engalnd National Guards
men Will Go To Charlotte When
Mustered Into Service.

Washington, July 19.-Secretary
Baker announced today that the Ma
tional Guard of the State of Vermont
would be sent to the camp to be es.
tablished at Charlotte, n. c. All New
England gnardsmen are to go to Char
lottc.
Charlotte, n c., is a city of about
10000 population. The camp is To-
Gated some distance from. the city,
which is at quite high altitude in
the Appalachian mountain range 1t
has good railroad facilities and is one
OF the leading centers of the state.
1t is not far south from Richmond, Va.
and the time required to go there
from Fort Ethan Allen by the Atlantic
Coast railroad connections is about AZ
hours. Says the gazetteer:
"The city of Charlotte, n. c., is the
capital OF Mecklenburg county. IL
is on the Atlanta and Richmond Air
line railroad, 265 miles Z. ~ f. of
Atlanta, Al miles S. S. w. of Sails
bury and 10 miles north Of Colum-
bia, S. c. 1t is the northern termi.
nus of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad and the southern
terminus of the Atlanta, Tennessee
and Ohio railroad
1t Is the seat Of the Biddle univer-
sity (Presbyterian) organized in 1876.
nc contains the courthouse, 10
churches, two academies, three ma
tional banks, a branch unit and print.
ing offices which issue two daily and
four weekly newspapers. Here are
manufacturers of carriages, machin
cry, cotton goods, farm implements,
tobacco, iron castings, etc"
The camps to which the various Ma
tional Guard divisions will be sent and
the units to be amalgamated in form
ing these divisions were announced by
the War Department today as fol-
lows:
Charlotte. ~ C.-Division 5, from
the States of Maine. New Hampshire,
Vermont. Massachusetts,, Rhode Is.
land, and Connecticut; to be called
into Federal service on July 81.
Spartanburg, S. C.-Division 6, from
the State of New York. to mobilize on
July 16.
Augusta, Ga-Division Z, from the
State of Pennsylvania, called into Fed
eral service on July Is.
Admission. Ala.-Division s, from the
States of Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware. New Jersey, and the District of
Columbia; to be called into Federal
service on July 25,
Greenville, S. C.-Division 9, from
the States of Tennessee, North Caro-.
lima, and South Carolina; to be called
into Federal service on July %.
Macon, Ga.-Division 10, from the
States of Alabama, Georgia, and Flori-
da, to be called into Federal service
on August 5.
Waco, TeXas-Division II, from the
States Of Wisconsin and Michigan TO
be called July 10. r
Houston, Texas-Division 10. from
the State of Illinois, to be called July
%.
Deming n. M.-Division 13, from
the States of North Dakota, South Da.
kota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota; (;
to be called July Is.
Fort SILL Okla.-Division IA. from
the States of Kansas and Missouri; 20
be called Aug. 8.
Fort Worth, Texas-Division Is,
from the States of Texas and Oklaho'
ma: to be called Aug 5.
Montgomery. Ala.-Division 16
from the States of Ohio and West Vir
ginia; to be called July 10.
Hattiesburg, Miss-Division II
from the States of Indiana and Ken
lucky; to be called Aug. 8.
| Alexandria. La.-Diyision IS, from
the States Of Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana; to be called Aug. 5.
| Linda Vista, Cal.-Division 49, from
the States of California, Utah, Neva
da, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexi
co: to be called Aug 5.
Palo Alto Cal.-Division 20, from
the States Of Washington, Montana
Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming; to b.
called on Julv 9b