Life and times in Hopkinton, . about this time a third companyof boys, in Blackwater district; it was commanded by Sam-uel B. Straw. The time appropriated to a company training was gen-erally half of a day. A general muster of the regimentoccupied a whole day. No legal provision was made forthe conveyance of soldiers to the place of rendezvous, andindividuals often straggled along the way to the training- ormuster-field, their gay uniforms making them the observedof all observers. Since the place of regimental musteralternated among the different towns represented in thecommand, the distan
Life and times in Hopkinton, . about this time a third companyof boys, in Blackwater district; it was commanded by Sam-uel B. Straw. The time appropriated to a company training was gen-erally half of a day. A general muster of the regimentoccupied a whole day. No legal provision was made forthe conveyance of soldiers to the place of rendezvous, andindividuals often straggled along the way to the training- ormuster-field, their gay uniforms making them the observedof all observers. Since the place of regimental musteralternated among the different towns represented in thecommand, the distance required to reach it often demandeda start of many hours in advance. The spot reached, boththe tents of the regiment and private or public accommo-dations were often required to lodge the troops. Experi-ences akin to the actual life of war were often realized inthis military housing. Muster service was at best a hardone, and many a youth who looked forward with fond an-ticipation to the time when he, too, should be a happy sol-. Alpheus R. Brown. CUSTOMS AND ASSOCIATED EVENTS. 247 dier, lived to count the years that must pass away so slowlybefore he should be exempt from a duty that had becomeas irksome as it had once seemed fascinating. The dutiesof a common soldier of militia were at first performed with-out pay, though he received his dinner, or its equivalent,on muster-days. Commissioned officers of militia receivedno salary, but received such other compensation as wasgiven to privates of the same command. They could beexempted from military duty, however, after an official ser-vice of a term of years. At first the town provided a din-ner of bread and beef for the regiment at muster; later, anequivalent of thirty-one cents was allowed; last, fifty centswas appropriated as a means of a soldiers later times, also, the members of uniformed companiesreceived each a compensation of $ a year, paid them, atmuster and immediately after satisfactory inspection,
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