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Title: One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lanard, Thomas S. (Thomas South), 1878-
Subjects: Pennsylvania. Militia
Publisher: Philadelphia : Nields Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st captain. The company has had a continuous existence andhas given good service in every war from the Revolution to theSpanish-American. Led by their magnificent band, one of the best in the country,the Fencibles left their Armory shortly after 9 oclock this morn-ing and marched down Broad St. to Chestnut, east on that thor-oughfare to 11th, then north to the Reading Terminal, wheretheir special train of six Pullman cars was waiting. About 125 men were in line, with Major Thurber T. Brazerin command. All the rank and file wore the blue trousers, redcoats and big black shakos, the uniform of the Fencibles for overa half century. On their arrival at New Haven this afternoon, the Fencibleswill be met by the Second Company of the Governors Footguardsand escorted to the Hotel Taft, where they will be entertained.Later in the afternoon they Mill be taken on a motor tour ofNew Haven. Tonight the Fencibles will be the guests of honorat a dinner to be given by the Footguard at the Hotel Taft.
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towiN JOHN-PRiTrie t3 1912 FENCIBLES IN NEW HAVEN 425 The other old military organizations wliich will tako part in tliccelebration will reach New Haven tomorrow niorninfj. All willlunch in the spacious dining hall of Yale University as the guestsof Governor Baldwin and his staff. Afilitary maneuvers on theYale campus and a parade through the streets of New Haven willfollow the luncheon. Tomorrow night there will he a display offireworks on the New Haven green, followed l)y a receiition byGovernor Baldwin to the visiting organizations. The Fencibles will leave for home at 9 oclock Friday morning,but will stop over a few hours in New York, being due to reach theReading Terminal about 9..30 oclock. They will march out MarketSt. to Broad and thence along Broad to their Armory. The Morning Journal-Courier, New Ilaveu, Sept. 19th, ilTJ. It might have been that the full dress uniform worn by theState Fencibles of Philadelphia, the crack company of Pennsyl-vania, that brought the down-pour o

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