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| 197 Brown and his staff arrived at Cape May. They were met at the station by the regiment and escorted to their headquarters at the Stockton Hotel, and the regiment paraded there under review of the general. Life at Camp Zollinger was not different from that at the various seaside camps of former years. There was a reception to the officers at the Stockton, and visits to the regiment by many gentlemen and ladies from Baltimore. On Sunday Mrs. Markoe, her daughters and other ladies, visited the camp and listened to a sacred concert. After the dress parade the Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. Doe, reviewed the regiment. The "Lambs," of Company E, an organization of fun-makers, afforded amusement, as usual, to the camp and to the guests of the hotels. The military ball at the Stockton, on Saturday evening, was interrupted by a procession of these merry-makers, preceded by their marshal, Sergeant Jack Carroll, mounted upon a lean and hungry mule, accompanied by Sergeant Fallen riding a roan horse. The grotesque procession— horse, mule and all—marched through the hotel office and down the centre of the ball room, the dancers making way for them. After a mock drill they retired, and drilled, and set off fireworks on the lawn. On Tuesday Governor Brown, Adjutant-General H. Kyd Douglas and members of the governor's staff arrived at Cape May, and were received with military honors and escorted to their hotel. Later in the day the regiment was reviewed by the governor. Captain Walter S. Finley, United States Army, who had been detailed by the War Department as assistant to the adjutant-general, was with the regiment at Cape May. On Saturday, July 23, the encampment ended. It had been one of the most successful and pleasant of the whole series. The last day was one of bustle, and the last night one of merry-making. There was a farewell ball at the Stockton to the officers. The regiment got into Baltimore at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning, and marched from the depot to the armory, where they were dismissed. At a regimental meeting on November 26 service medals were awarded. |