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 and thirty-one members of the State Fencibleswho performed duty at Camp DuPont, in 1814. He carried on thefancy basket and variety business for many years, on the southside of Market Street, above Fourth. There now remain but tenwho were his companions at Camp DuPont; all the rest are be-neath the green sod. Captain Marston was at one time a Lieutenant of the Fencibles;and during the lat
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 and thirty-one members of the State Fencibleswho performed duty at Camp DuPont, in 1814. He carried on thefancy basket and variety business for many years, on the southside of Market Street, above Fourth. There now remain but tenwho were his companions at Camp DuPont; all the rest are be-neath the green sod. Captain Marston was at one time a Lieutenant of the Fencibles;and during the late war he served as a Captain in the Eighty-second Eegiment, P. V. He was attached to the PennsylvaniaHose Company, and filled many positions of honor and trust inthe company. From the Sunday Republic, September 20th, 1874: The troubles or dissensions that have for months past prevailedin this prominent company of the First Division have, at last,assumed such a phase that the reputation of this worthy organiza-tion for concert of action, soldierly discipline, and general mili-tary faultlessness, has not only been seriously compromised, butthe very existence of the Corps has been imperiled. Two bellig-. THE PAGE MEMORIAL WINDOW. ARMOUY-STATE FEXCIHLES. 1874 CONTROVERSY BETWEEN PAGE AND RYAN 207 erent and unrelenting factions, one under the leadership of Cap-tain Ryan, and the other marshalled by the chief of the Old Guard,Colonel Page, have almost since the organization of the Corps,been contending for the supremacy or general management of theaffairs of the company. The Ryan faction, composed of the fol-lowers of their Captain, maintain tliat the commandant of theCorps is the proper head, and proper one to run the ma-chine; while the Page clique contend that the affairs of the Corpsmust be managed in a legitimate, straightforward, soldierly way,and not be a one-man-power. The antagonism or feud hadbeen gradually increasing, and all eflorts to effect a compromisehave proved fruit
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