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| 110 at the armory for about ten days. The riots had ended. For its conduct in this riot the Fifth received commendations from all sides. The Army and Navy Journal declared the Fifth had acted with the discipline of regular troops, and had suppressed the riot without unnecessary bloodshed. No man fired without orders. "We are proud to see," the Journal added, "on the side of law and order, our old friend of Confederate fame, Harry Gilmor. It is he and the likes of him that made the Fifth do itself as much honor as the Sixth reaped discredit." It was not until the 10th of August that the governor issued his order discharging the regiment from active duty. On that day there was an election of officers. Captain R. P. Brown, of Company C, was elected lieutenant colonel; Captain John D. Lipscomb, of Company B, was made major. Both of these officers had been me'm-bers of the regiment from its organization. Lieutenant George T. Beall succeeded Captain Lipscomb in command of Company B, and Second Lieutenant Wm. H. Rogers became captain of Company C. Private H. H. Flack, who was wounded at Camden Station, was promoted to second lieutenant. Towards the last of August the militia received their pay from the State for their services in the field, which had been on the average 26 days. The first parade of the Fifth Regiment, after the riots, took place in Baltimore, on October 15, 1877. There were then 400 muskets in line. At the funeral of Commodore Hollins, on January 21, 1878, the regiment acted as an escort, and later on, in June, at that of ex-Mayor Kane. |