Company F Leaves for Camp UCwey
Company F departs for Camp UCwey with steps toward new assignment. Short, official notice notes departure without detailing destination or mission.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
7
Company F departs for Camp UCwey with steps toward new assignment. Short, official notice notes departure without detailing destination or mission.
Marlboro Massachusetts sends Company F of the Sixth Regiment to Camp Dewey Framingham to await orders from the volunteer army. Citizens close businesses suspend schools and parade to honor the troops while flags wave and the town braces for potential deployment with Capt Thomas J. Jackson and officers like Franklin Taylor and Frank Moore leading the unit.
Shortly after 9 0 clock Friday morning the company formed in city hall and marched down Main street photographed by Wade and Little. At 9 15 the march began with Gen Parsons marshal and included a platoon of police Sons of Veterans Letter carriers Grand Army Co F. The line moved along Main Mechanic Lincoln Pleasant and back to the depot reviewed by school children and city officials. Captain Jackson oversaw armory preparations for departure with Lieuts Taylor and Moore assisting as men packed camp gear and food supplies were readied for Camp Dewey.
The company sergeants are athletic and knowledgeable in tactics and respected by subordinates. Notably the gm sergt Harold B. Chamberlain stands out, with a family history of service since the revolution. His father, Dr Chamberlain, was surgeon of the Sixth.
Concord honors the Sixth Massachusetts volunteers with a vestry banquet at First Parish. A 74 member company including Capt Cyrus H. Cook and Lt Joseph Hart dined on oysters and cake, sang America, and received roses for the captain. Leaders praised the pupils and town as the volunteers head to camp for the coming campaign.
A prayer issued by Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts pleading mercy for the nation at war. It asks God to pardon offenses guard from pride bless mariners and soldiers and remember prisoners and those in peril at sea or land.
War with Spain is not imminent as the ad warns of illness and promotes Cleveland's Lung Healer, the Monarch of the World's Expectorants, to ward off coughs and consumption. It guarantees repayment if no cure, offering trial bottles at 25 cents via Fred A. Wheeler, 347 Lincoln St.
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