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the 58th Brigade, composed of the
1st and 5th Maryland Infantry; the
9lst Brigade, 1st and l16th Virginia
Infantry: 54th Field Artillery, COM
posed of the 10th Field Artillery
Regiment from Maryland. the 1l1th
from Virginia and the 176th from
Pennsylvania; the 121st Engineers
and the l04th Observation Squadron,
104th Medical Regiment and 1O4th
Quartermaster Regiment.
Anti-Aircraft Units.
In addition, the defenders will
have the 213th and 260th Coast
Artillery (anti- i-aircraft, both Ma
tional Guard units, the latter from
the District.
The 121st Engineers of the Dis
trict Guard hit the ground" to-
night, striking their wall tents,
shipping them back to Washington
and then pitching their pup tents
to live in for the next week.
The regiment. led by Col. John
w. Oehmann, will operate under
Third Corps Area command dur
ing the big battle.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mander of the District Guard, at
tended the 29th Division review
this morning and inspected the
District troops from a vantage point
in the reviewing stand. He will
come back Monday to remain at
corps headquarters in Manassas
for the maneuver.
Biggest Reviews Since War.
Today's divisional reviews, said to
have been the largest held in the
United States since the World War
period, were conducted with clock
like precision under a burning sun.
Despite the precision of the troop
movements, however, the two cere-
monies required half day and
presented vivid picture Of the
strength and excellence Of training
and equipment of the Nations citizen
army to thousands of spectators who
braved the sun and traffic congestion
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the parade fields.
Gen. Drum, first three starred
general to take" review since the
war period, reviewed both divisions,
in company with Gen. Parsons, corps
commander: the Governors of Mary
land, Virginia and Pennsylvania,
District Commissioners Melvin c.
Hazen and David McCoach and other
notables Col. McCoach, though
holding the rank of lieutenant
colonel in the Corps of Engineers,
rated the courtesies due a general
here today as head of the District
government.
The reviews began spectacularly
as the combined bands of II regi-
ments of the 18th Division marched
past the divisional reviewing stand
as a massed band of 308 musicians
AS the bands swung by the stand
an airplane of the 103rd Observa-
ton Squadron, Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard, roared by over their
heads at an altitude of less than
100 feet, directly in front of the
stand.
Many Have Long History.
AS the regiments passed in massed
battalion formations with bayonets
fixed, an announcer, by loud speak
er, recounted war histories of the
units, some of them going back to
the Revolution and some even ear
ner. Company E of the I'd Bat
talon, 111th Infantry, for exam
Pile, can trace its history back to
1747, when Benjamin Franklin Or
ganized the first citizen soldiery OF
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Many of the units in both di-
visions carry guidons with bands
and streamers commemorating bat.
ties of the War of 1912, the wal
with Mexico, the Civil War, the
Spanish-American War and the
World War.
BY special request of Gov. Jane!
Of Pennsylvania, the 176th Field Ar.
tillery Regiment of Pittsburgh
armed with -millimeter hOWitzer!
of the latest type, marched in botf
divisional reviews. 1t is the only
Pennsylvania outfit in the 29tf
Division and was transferred to tn,
all-Pennsylvania 28th for the frs
review. returning to its own division
for the second. It's commander, 1t
Col. Arthur P. Schock, like man,
others of the two divisions, is +,
veteran of the World War. Tn,
regiment itself was first organized
in 1881 as the Duquesne Grays ant
served in Mexico with Gen. Scott
after travelling down the Ohio ane
Mississippi in boats to New Orlean.
and by transport to Vera Cruz. Il
fought through the Civil War ane
In the World War.