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A HISTORY OF
standing first with 2569, Shenandoah second, with 2556, and
Rockingham fourth, with 2296. In 1835 the General As-
sembly passed an Act establivshing in Rockingham a new and
distinct regiment, to be known as the 145th Regiment of Vir-
ginia Militia. The commissioners named in the Act were
John Cowen, Samuel Cootes, John Allabough, Anderson
Moffitt, George Piper, David Lincoln, Samuel Miller, Abram
Burd, and David Hen ton. The next year an Act to apportion
more equally the enrolled militia of the three Rockingham
Regiments was passed. In the Register of April 7, 1838, is
found a notice from Wm. Burnside, 0. S., ordering the rifle
company, commanded by Capt. Speck and attached to the
145th Regiment, to parade on the 2d Saturday of April at
Paul's Mill, Beaver Creek. In another copy of the same
paper, dated April 8, 1842, are three similar notices: One
from J. Billhimer, 0. S., to Capt. 0. St. C. Sprinkle's com-
pany, ordering it to parade in Harrisonburg on the 2d Satur-
day of April; another, from John A. Hopkins, captain,
ordering the artillery to parade at Mt. Clinton on the 2d
Saturday; another, from Wm. Burnsides, 0. S., ordering the
light infantry company, formerly under command of Capt.
J. S. Carlile, to parade in Dayton on the 3d Saturday. In
the last-named company an election was to be held for cap-
tain. The hour appointed for the parade in each of the three
notices was 11 o'clock.
Twenty years ago a lady^ who was born in Harrisonburg
in 1812, and who spent her early life there, wrote out her
recollections of the olden time. Her account of the "big
musters" is given in the following graphic words:
The annual or general muster was the greatest thing, and was looked
forward to for months with the greatest pleasure by all the negroes and
children. Training of officers began several days before muster day.
It was the most motley crowd that filled the square around the court
house. Men of all sorts and sizes, dressed in tow-linen pants and shirts;
few had coats and vests; some with old wool hats, and others with straw
2. Maria Graham Carr, mother of Gen. C. C. C. Carr of Chicago. For
access to copies of her manuscript I am indebted to Mr. R. A. VanPelt
and Mrs. Hattie Newman.
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standing first with 2569, Shenandoah second, with 2556, and
Rockingham fourth, with 2296. In 1835 the General As-
sembly passed an Act establivshing in Rockingham a new and
distinct regiment, to be known as the 145th Regiment of Vir-
ginia Militia. The commissioners named in the Act were
John Cowen, Samuel Cootes, John Allabough, Anderson
Moffitt, George Piper, David Lincoln, Samuel Miller, Abram
Burd, and David Hen ton. The next year an Act to apportion
more equally the enrolled militia of the three Rockingham
Regiments was passed. In the Register of April 7, 1838, is
found a notice from Wm. Burnside, 0. S., ordering the rifle
company, commanded by Capt. Speck and attached to the
145th Regiment, to parade on the 2d Saturday of April at
Paul's Mill, Beaver Creek. In another copy of the same
paper, dated April 8, 1842, are three similar notices: One
from J. Billhimer, 0. S., to Capt. 0. St. C. Sprinkle's com-
pany, ordering it to parade in Harrisonburg on the 2d Satur-
day of April; another, from John A. Hopkins, captain,
ordering the artillery to parade at Mt. Clinton on the 2d
Saturday; another, from Wm. Burnsides, 0. S., ordering the
light infantry company, formerly under command of Capt.
J. S. Carlile, to parade in Dayton on the 3d Saturday. In
the last-named company an election was to be held for cap-
tain. The hour appointed for the parade in each of the three
notices was 11 o'clock.
Twenty years ago a lady^ who was born in Harrisonburg
in 1812, and who spent her early life there, wrote out her
recollections of the olden time. Her account of the "big
musters" is given in the following graphic words:
The annual or general muster was the greatest thing, and was looked
forward to for months with the greatest pleasure by all the negroes and
children. Training of officers began several days before muster day.
It was the most motley crowd that filled the square around the court
house. Men of all sorts and sizes, dressed in tow-linen pants and shirts;
few had coats and vests; some with old wool hats, and others with straw
2. Maria Graham Carr, mother of Gen. C. C. C. Carr of Chicago. For
access to copies of her manuscript I am indebted to Mr. R. A. VanPelt
and Mrs. Hattie Newman.
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