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 . d with the 1st Brigade N. , escorting the Liberty Bell to 32nd and Market Streets, fromwhere it was to be shipped to Chicago and placed on exhibition inthe Pennsylvania Building at the Worlds Fair. The 80th Anniversary of the Battalion was celebrated on May26th by a moonlight parade. Proceeding up Broad Street to Dia-mond, to 16th, to Columbia Avenue, to Broad, to the Armory. Thiswas t
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 . d with the 1st Brigade N. , escorting the Liberty Bell to 32nd and Market Streets, fromwhere it was to be shipped to Chicago and placed on exhibition inthe Pennsylvania Building at the Worlds Fair. The 80th Anniversary of the Battalion was celebrated on May26th by a moonlight parade. Proceeding up Broad Street to Dia-mond, to 16th, to Columbia Avenue, to Broad, to the Armory. Thiswas the first time the Fencibles attempted to hold their Anniver-sary parade in the evening, and while the Battalion turned outwith ranks full and made an excellent appearance, the lights on thestreets were too poor for them to be seen to the best advantage, andevery one was of the same opinion that daylight is the time to see,and be seen. On the 30th, the Annual Ceremony of decorating thegrave of Maj. John W. Ryan was performed by the officers of theBattalion at Woodland Cemetery. An election was ordered to be held on the evening of June 14th,at the Armory, for the election of a Major to fill the vacancy. MAJOR WILLIAM A. WlTHEKri 1893 CAMP JAMES PAGE 325 caused by the resignation of Maj. AVilliam Witherup, who had re-tired on account of business engagements. He was a faithful of-ficer and an agreeable companion. A man of strict integrity andone who had served faithfully through all the different grades imtilhe reached that of Commander. He, for many years was the Treas-urer, and the financial affairs of the Battalion were always in ex-cellent condition. On retiring he was elected an Honorary Thurber T. Brazer, who had so successfully commandedthe Ponies, Company D, was unanimously elected Major. The Battalion paraded on July 4th at Philadelphia with the 1stBrigade. After the parade Company A, of the Pencibles, enter-tained Company A, of the 6th Regt. N. G. P. of Pot
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