Montgomery County, Ohio - Chapter 13, 1882 (part 2 of 2)

Company C (Irish) marched from Dayton to camp as escort for the ba tery. After six days of drill, tents were struck and the soldiers returned hom greatly benefited by field maneuvers, drill and camp life.

Of the above companies, C, D and F are not now (May, 1882) a part < the regiment, the companies composing it being A, B. E, G, H, I (located - Miamisburg) and the battery. Company A has about forty men; the othe. keep up to an average strength of about sixty. The battery, which has bee reduced to two guns, has two officers and thirty- eight mpn. The present rsg mental officers are as follows: Colonel, F. B. Mott, of Dayton; Lieutenai

Colonel, George H Phillips, of Hamilton; Major, M. S. Holden, of Daykw Adjutant, W. B. Anderson, of Dayton; Surgeon, J. R. Weaver, of Daytoi

Annual encampments are held at such places as may be ordered. Thi for 1882 will occur June 30, at Piqua. Each regiment in the State holds i own separate encampmont, as they are not brigaded. Col. Mott took commar of the Fourth Regiment in February, 1882, since which time it has been ulmo entirely re-organized. Changes are being made almost constantly in the rank yet recruits are always plenty to take the places of the men who may be di charged. The regiment is a credit to itself, its officers and the State.