Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-13
GUARD WILL LEAVE
SUNDAY TO TRAIN
AT CAMP LEE, Va.
1870 District Soldiers Will
Spend Ten Days or
Two Weeks.

prisinG the three companies of the
District National Guard, will entrain
Sunday morning at the Union station
for Camp Lee, near Petersburg, Va,
where they will spend ten days or
two weeks in intensive field training
Gen. Anton stephan, commander of
| the guard. is not sure just now how
| long the training period will last as
it depends on the quarters available
| for the District guardsmen at Camp
Lee. The men will leave at $50
O'Clock Sunday morning over the r..
! f. and F., and will arrive at Peters
burg about noon Sunday. On arrival
at the camp they will be served with
! a luncheon prepared by camp cooks
ialready on the ground.
Capt. Gladman in Charge.
The entire personnel of the guard
which will go to Camp Lee will be
! in charge of Capt. Harry f.. Glad
man, commanding officer of Company
&c, as senior officer of the guard. Maj.
/ Richard ID. La Garde, adjutant gen
eral of the guard. will be at the camp
as the personal representative of Gen.
stephan. but will not take part in
the field training.
| The three companies of the guard
which will so to Camp Lee are all
| infantry companies, and as such Will
| undergo only intensive infantry train
| ing. The medical company and Sig
| nal Corps company are now in process
! of formation, but will not be included
| in the delegation of District guards
! men TO go to the southern camp. In
! struction in infantry training Will be
under the direction of Regular Army
| officers permanently stationed at
! Camp Lee. The men will go through
all the elements of drill that antici-
pate modern warfare. They Will be
! put through eXtended-order drill,
! close order drill. skirmishng, trench
! digging and a course in trench war
| fare, bomb throwing and a course
| of intensive rifle practice on the
! range at the camp. Practically all
the men who will make the trip
| have had rifle pdactice on the range
at Camp Simms. Congress Heights,
| From the men who shot over the
range at Camp Simms a team was
| picked to represent the District Guard
| in the national matches now being
held at Camp Perry. Ohio.
| Lecture Saturday Night.
| The guard members will go to the
District armory. at Az /. street, Sat
! urday night. where they will receive
a lecture on camp life by their Of
| ticers. They viii sleep at the armory
! Saturday night, leaving Sunday morn
| ing.
National Guard units from other
| states are expected to be at Camp
! guard will be there, Gen. Stephan
| said today 1t is probable that for
tactical purposes, particularly in the
! trench warfare practice. the District
guard may be merged with units
! from other states to make field
| unit large enough for regimental
| training.
The men will leave Washington with
| full field equipment. Officers in com
| mand of the three companies are:
! Company A. Capt. Samuel l.. Smith
| commanding: First Lieut.. George G
| Israel and Second Lieut.. Sidney Nor
| gan. Headquarters Company, Capt
Joseph r. Mickey. commanding; Com
pany b, Capt Harry Z. Gladman, COM
manding; First Lieut.. George L
! Evans, and Second Lieut.. John r
| Kahn.
Many in Old ID. C. Guard.
Many of the members of the guard
are men who served in the old Dis.
trict guard before it was mustered
into federal service during the war
With the war and camp experience OF
f<hese men, Capt. Gladman will di
vide the guard into groups. which will
be under these former soldiers for the
preliminary training. On the Other
hand, many guardsmen are rookie:
at "soldierin and will have to gc
through all the preliminaries to be
come accustomed to the use of bayo
net and mess tin. By the end of tn,
training period, it is expected tina
the guard will have become CO
hesive tactical unit, fully equipped t,
be the foundation of the enlarged
District guard, which Gen. Stephan
hopes will become fact within two
years.
Lieut.. Kahn of Company B and :
! mn hn~ ,F
guard will leave Washington tomor
row for the camp to prepare for tn,
rest of the guardsmen, who will ar
rive at Camp Lee Sunday.
Roster Going to Camp Lee.
The roster of organizations and per
sonnet of the 9Th Infantry, going Il
Camp Lee, follow:
headquarters Company-Capt. 10,
K; Mickey, commandin; Joseph r
altaro, Otto L. Beuchamp, Oscar NJ
Eechtold. Louis j. Benner, Rudolph
H. T. Benner, Theodore E. Berkeley
c. o. Bowles, Bernard A, Buscher
Frederick L. Campbell, John T. Car
roll. George E. Davis. Harry c. Davis
George l.. De Mott, Ashley G. Duvall
James D. Eggleston, Frank Ferris
Benjamin r. Freeman, Wilhelm Fen
mel, Raymond Fl. Gibson. Eugene F
Gass, Wilton H. Gowen, Joseph Hama
Otto Hammerbacher, Sharp A. Hay.
den. Gotthard A. Hoffman, Lewis E
Hoffman, Louis c. Hoffman, William
NJ. Horton, Jacob ]. Jacobson, jr
Joseph w. Johnson. La Monte K
Johnson, William r. Kidd. George E
Lester, Jacob B. LIGHTER, Whiting P
Lightfoot, Henry Loveless, Robert G
MacCartee. David w. Milne, Stansel
Moore, Joseph H Nicely, Victcr V
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