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| 61 by Governor Groome at the Fifth's camp ground was a grand spectacle. General Patterson, one of the Fifth's best friends, was also a visitor at Camp Monmouth at the time. Tuesday, July 28, the regiment paid its visit to the field of the Battle of Monmouth and to the town of Freehold, once called Monmouth Court House, and upwards of 20,000 people assembled in Freehold to see the regiment. On the day before the visit to Monmouth Battlefield there had been a review by Governor Parker, who remarked on this occasion, as many had remarked often before, the entire absence of disorder from the conduct of the men of the regiment, whether on duty or not. The train for Monmouth Station left Long Branch at 8. BO o' clock in the morning, and at that point the Fifth was met by Governor Parker and staff. Then the cars conveyed the soldiers two miles farther to the scene of the battle, where the regiment alighted and formed in an apple orchard near the line of the bush fence, once an important landmark of the place. After the regiment had stacked arms, the ,men crowded under the apple trees, and there listened to a speech by Governor Parker, of New Jersey, who described to them the Battle of Monmouth, and the events leading up to it. He also included in his speech a warm welcome to the Maryland men. Governor Groome responded, and then the regiment visited other points of interest on the battlefield and then went to Freehold, where the formal reception was given them by COMPANY F OFFICERS AT MESS, TAMPA, 1898. |