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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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this year between England and France had extended to their respective colonies in this countryand caused another Indian war. Tofurnish a sufficient strength for the mil-itia some five hundred men had beendrafted and assigned to the two regiments. The service rendered by thedrafted men evidently not being at allsatisfactory, it was decided to dischargethem and form a scouting party of ahundred men from Colonel Pepperells regiment for immediate and constant service, the balance of the troops to beheld in readiness for service when calledupon. The scouts were formed into eight guards, each under the command of a sergeant and stationed at convenientdistances from each other between Ber-wick and St. George, from which points they were to patrol to the next station. THE NATIONAL GUARD OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 79 Two officers with the pay of captain had dations and encroachments by the charge of this line of pickets. French. Up to the time of the breaking out of During the winter session of the Mas-
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i. Colonel Wm. S. Folger, Judge-Advocate-General. 2. Lieutenant Mark L. Hersey, 12th U. S. Infantry. 3. Major Albert G. Rollins, Military Secretary Governors Staff. 4. Governor Henry B. Cleaves, Commander-in-Chief. 5. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles H. Prescott, Aid-de-Camp Governors Staff. 6. Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Whitmarsh, Aid-de-Camp, Governors Staff. 7. Adjutant-General Selden Connor. the War of the Revolution these troops sachusetts Legislature in 1775-76, the found ample employment in protect- militia was reorganized and the Generaling the settlers from Indian depre- Court formed Massachusetts proper into 8o OUTING FOR OCTOBER. three divisions and Maine into one. A brigadier-general was appointed to the command of the militia in each county,and those for the three counties in Maine were General John Frost, of Kittery, General Samuel Thompson, of Brunswick, and General Charles Cushing, of Pownolborough. A brigade was to consist of two regiments, and in each regiment the field officers

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