VMI Cadet. October 24, 1955

              THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 24, 1955
, COLUMN ONE Boyd Raeburn Band
Teamed With Brown BY
J E R E R E AL
I'Tlic other (lay a radct lo whom I
WHS talkinfe .made the statement
that he would have applied for a
co-tiiin scholarship it it had not
been for ail of the application
blanks that he had to fill out. This
was said in jest, but it docs point
up a situation that exists at the
present time with regard to scho-larships
that are available. There
afc hundreds of available scholar-ships
to various countries, schools,
and for various sums of money that
cach year Ro unnoticed and unap-plied
for. This can be explained in
several ways. One answer is that
the students just do not realize
that many of them arc available.
Another explanation is that there
may be a certain a.spect of schola'-
ship missing in many college grad-uates
in the United States today.
Still another reason could be the
fctry uncertain position held by all
of the male graduates with regard
to' service in the armed forces.
While all of these are possible
explanations they still do not ac-cdunt
for the vast number of funds
that go untouched every year. I
was talking to a cadet who had ap-plied
for a scholarship by the Ro-tary
Clubs of America. He inform-ed
me that there were only three
people in the state of New York
that had applied for the scholar-ship.
I will have to admit that I
only learned of these .scholarships
last summer my.self in a conversa-tion
with my father.
%he point is that if a senior in
collefie desires lo continue his edu-cation
the chances arc pretty good
that lie wll be able to Ret .some
sort of scholarship, fellowship,
teaching a.ssistantbhip, or other
form of aid.
The American way of life that
' we all iicar so much about is cer
Vainly a complex one no matter
low you look at it. Kven in the
"usiness world of today the man
"vith tlie most education is the man
hat is sout-ht after, whether it i
correct guide to his, probable sue
?ss or not.
IJndcr the.se circiimstnnces it
bid prove very helpful to many
f this year's graduates it they had
perhaps a Ma.ster's degree at least
If any of the First Classmen that
plan on doing extra academic work
iftcr their graduation from the In-ftitute
would investigate, they
vould probably bo very surprised
t the opportunities that are pre-ent.
I am sure that any faculty
nember in any department would
ic more than glad to help anyone
•crested in post-graduate work
finding the scholarships that he
.nijBht be interested in and to aid
the student in applying and per-tisps
obtaining one of them. This
i a matter that should be consid-ered
and decided upon early in the
ast academic year. The prepara-ion
for these awards is certainly
Worth the trouble if one is inte-rested
in furthering his education
)n advanced study.
Due to the fact that Hal Mc-
Intyre has had an engagement ex-tended
he will not be able to
appear at the Institute to play for
Ring Figure with Les Brown. In
his stead the Hop Committee Busl-iss
Manager, J. T. Witt, has pro-red
Boyd Raeburn and his Cava-liers.
The Cavaliers will feature
Ginnie Powell as vocalist.
Before appearing at V. M. I..
Raeburn will play at several col-leges
around the country. Among
them are Columbia University,
Queens College, University of Con-necticut,
Dartmouth, Michigan
State, Penn State, Yale, and Massa-chusetts
Institute of Technology.
Fordham University, N. V". U.,
Upon completion of his perform-ance
at V. M. I. Mr. Raeburn and
his Cavaliers will journey to
Blacksburg to make music for the
Hokies. Later he will visit both
in Massachusetts and New York re-spectively.
About thirty five years ago,
Boyd Raeburn saw the light of
day on a ranch in South Dakota.
Coming from a well to do family,
Boyd Raeburn was given the ad-
Amherst College and lona College
vantages of excellent schooling and
graduated, with honors, from the
University of Chicago, in Chicago.
1 1 1 .
Boyd formed his orchestra while
a college student and went through
every phase of music—from Klling
ton to Stravinsky—to finally arrive
at the conclusion that the best
band is the band that crcates musi(
for dancing plasurc. While in thi
Stravinsky phase, Boyd recorded
INewiiiaiis Plan
For Keligioiis
' Youth Week
' Uniting their efforts with seven
million youths throughout Amer-ica,
the Newman Club prepares
for participation in the fifth Na-
\ tional Catholic Youth Week, Oct-
Jjcr 30 to November 6.
Sponsored by the National Coun-
1 of Catholic Youth, the week
to emphasize the importance of
luth, encourage our generation
„ J be mindful of our capacitie.s,
r " V I" 'lispluy the talents, abill-ies,
and resources of our youth,
particularly in the i>piritual vein.
I His Holiness Pope Pius Xll, Pres-
',! ident Kisenhower, the Cardinals,
the Archbishops, and Bishops of
many dioceses, tiie Uuvornors and
Mayors tin ougliDut the country re-
L'qgniw Natioual Catholic Youth
Week.
Willi "Youth — Our Hope" as
its theme, the Catholic Youth
week is planning an intense and
varied program. Pageants and pa-rades,
radio and television pro-grams,
athlelii' and social events
shall be spiiiisored as well as spiri-tual
observation by Masses and
Holy llourb.
Cultiiiiic cadets are encouraged
to enter into the letter of this
movement and appreciate and real-
120 the xigiiificance o£ National
I CatlHiliv Voutb Week,
10 of his famous originals,
which he uses for jazz concerts
only—namely: "Boyd Meets Stra-vinsky",
"The Man with The
Horn", "Yerxa" and "Dalvatore
Sally" among others.
For the pleasure of the dancers,
the orchestra of Boyd Raeburn and
His Cavaliers now plays predomi-nantly
what the people in the
music busine.ss describe as "sweet,
lush music.' This type of sweet
styling typifies the orchestra of
Boyd Raeburn and His Cavaliers
as it is at the present time.
Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra was a
band favorite for many years in
Chicago, but Boyd, being restless,
decided to stretch his wings and
cover more territory. The Boyd
Raeburn Orchestra has traveled
from coast to coast and up into
Canada, pleasing the audiences
throughout the country. During a
recent New York engagement, his
band was called the best in the
nation. Boyd's orchestra was given
many top honors, among which
were the Esquire Award, Look Ma-gazine,
Downbeat, and Metronome
awards.
Boyd's orchestra has featured
from time to time, the most fa-mous
instrumentalists in the world
. . . Johnny Bothwell; Oscar Petti-ford;
Trummy Young; Dizzy Gil
Icspie; Tommy Pederson; Dodo
Marmarosa; Hal Schacffer (coach
for Marilyn Monroe); Ray Lynn;
Lucky Thompson (who now has
•his own orchestra and records for
Decca Records); Roy Eldridge;
Don l,amond, and the late Sonny
(Cjontinued on page 3)
Gen. Richard Marshall
Portrait of Gen.
R. J. Marshall To
Be Unveiled Soon
In 1U52, permission was given by
the Board of Visitors for a portrait
to be made of General R. ,1. Mar-shall.
Mr. David Silvette of Rich-mond
was named as the artist.
During the week of October 10 the
first sittings for the painting be-gan.
The portrait should now be
completed. Upon approval of the
Board of Visitors, the painting will
be hung in Jackson-Memorial Hall
alongside the portraits of his pre-decessors.
A dedication ceremony
for the unveiling of the portrait
will take place, but no detailed
plans have as yet been formulated.
Mr. Silvette has recently com-pleted
a portrait of the former
Civil War Governors of Virgin
John Letcher. Mr. Letcher, Whose
home was in Lexington, wai
member and president of the VMI
Board of Visitors from I8fi6-1882
Letcher avenue, locatcd on the
post, is named in IUK lionor.
Seven Hundred Flock to InsUliUe to Attend
JSinth Annual Virginia Highway Conference
'I'he ninth annual Virginia High-w'ay
(Jonference will be held here
November 2-4.
More than 700 persons a.s.sociat-rd
with highway building and de-velopment,
traffic planning antf
safety, and other phases of road de-velopment,
traffic planning and
safety, and other phases of road
tran.sportation are expected for the
three-day session which is spon-
•sored jointly by the Virginia De-partment
of Highways and Virginia
Military Institute, in co-operation
with thirteen other agencies.
This year's conference, theme of
which is "Road Progress Through
Teamwork-Federal, State, and Lo-cal,"
will offer a number of the
top national authorities in high-way
engineering and safety.
Both Governor Thomas B. Stan-ley
and former Governor John S.
Battle are scheduled to partcipate
in the 1955 conference. Governor
Stanley will preside at the general
session November 3, while Battip
will .serve in a like capacity at the
banquet ineeting that night.
The conference will be divided
into three parts—a technical .ses-sion,
general meelings, and a .series
of panel di.scu.ssions. In addition
there will be extensive exhibits of
road construction and maintain-ance
equipment and displays of
•safety devices and associated de-velopments.
The conference opens
with the technical session the af-ternoon
of November 1.
Among the experts who will ad-drc.
ss the opening meeting are Bur-ton
W. March, director of traffic
engineering and safety, American
Automobile Association; Lowell
E. Gregg, of the Highway Materials
Research Laboratory, Lexington,
Ky.; K. A. Stonex, of the General
Motors Corporation's p r o v i ng
ground section, Milford, Mich.; and
D. W. Louzenhizer, of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads
Attending the conference will
be officials and other representa
tives of town, city, and county
governments from throughout Vir
ginia. Highway Department, em-ployees,
and members of many
road building equipment and ma
terial firms.
The agencies co-operating in
stagng the conference are the Bu
reau of Public Roads, the League of
Va. Municipalities, the League of
Va. Counties, United States For-est
Service, Virginia Forest Ser-vice,
Division of Motor Vehicles,
Department of State Police, Gover-nor's
Highway Safety Committee,
Virginia Road Builders Associa-tion,
Virginia Highway Users As-sociation,
State Department of Ed-ucation,
County and Local Plann-ing
Boards, and the American Au-tomobile
Association.
V.M.I. Places Sixteen Seniors
On National ^^Who's Who" List
Prisoner Shot In Attempt
To Flee from VMI Grounds
Carl Holty, Noted Lecturer and Painter
Will Address Cadets and Pidjlic Thursday
Carl Holty, a noted lecturer and
painter, will speak to the V.M.I.
Corps of Cadets and the general
public on Thursday night. Novem-ber
3rd. at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Holty
will speak on the subject: "The
Role of Art in Modern Society."
There will also be a series of in-formal
seminars conducted by Mr.
Holty. These will be on: Traditions
of Modern Art-Titian, Goya, Dela-croix;
Cezanne-The New Person-ality;
Rembrandt-Men of Con-science
and Personal Responsib-ity;
Art versus Art Activity-Patro-nage
versus Collectorship; Art
Education in our Collcge-A discus-sion
of its purpose.
These seminars will lie at 10 o'-
clock and 2 o'clock on the 3rd of
November and at 8 o'clock and 2
o'clock on the 4th. There will be
a special schedule arranged to al-low
all English majors to attend
these seminars.
Described as having an "encyc-lopedic"
mind, Carl Holty's lec-tures
do indeed cover a wide range
of subjects. As one college presi-dent
put it, "His mind works with
lightning speed. We will long re-m
e m b e r the stimulation he
brought to our campus."
After formally developing his
artistic talents at the Milwauki-c
Art School, Chicago Art Institute,
and the National Academy of De-sign
in New York, Carl Holty con-tinued
his studies at the Royal
Academy and Hoffman School in
Munich. He Is a charter member
of the Abstraction Creation Group
of Paris, where his work was ex-hibited
for three years, and is a
founder member of the American
Abstract Artists. He is reprei
in important museums th
out the United States. He i
as visiting professor at tht
versity of California and Corcoran
Gallery taught at Washington Uni-versity,
St. Louis; artist-in-resi-dence
at the University of Georgia
(two years) and the University of
Florida in m.-j^-SS.
ented
ough-erved
Uni-
Eight English Majors Plan Tour
For Siiiuiner of Current Year
Eight English majors of the
third class arc planning to tour
Europe fur approximately s i x
weeks next summer. The trip is
planned primarily to familiarize
the students with the greatest Eur-opean
art centers in order that a
first-hand view of these centers
may be enjoyed.
The trip has been planned by
the studenU, with the help of Col.
onel Herbert N. Dillard ai\(l Cap-tain
Lewis J. Owen. The idea for
the tour was conceived last spring,
considerable work wa« done to fur-ther
the project this summer, aiul
this fall definite plans were set
up for carrying out the detailed
work that is nccessary for a trip of
lliis scope.
The men taking the trip arc:
Staff Balderson, Tom Black, Don
Cuthrell. Uill Harshaw, J im Moore,
John Peters, Darrell Rice, Arnie
Schossbcrg, Paul Sechtman, and
Sam Wilt. Harshaw and Rice are
biology majors. Going along to of-fer
helpful guidance on what to
see and hear are Col. Dillard and
Capt. Owen.
(continued on pai{e 6)
JNOTICE
The liiteruatiuiial KeUtiuus
Club of V. M. I. will open its
1955 S6 bcricb uf activities with
the shuwiug of liiree filiiib iu an
upeu uieetiug touiurruw, Tues-day,
Ocluber 25, 1955, In (lie
auditorium of the Prestua Li-brary.
These filimi are the first
such preseutatiuus by the rlub
thia year. The subjects will
range from the Canadian Farlia-mentary
kystiu tu the Air Korce
(raining program iu Canada
which currefepouds tu uur K. O.
T. C. program iu some re»|>evts.
The public and the eutire
(continued on page 0)
A young prisoner 'was seriously
funded in a reported escape at-tempt
at a road work project on
tl>c VMI grounds Monday morning.
Albert Coleman Oglesby, 20 of
North Charleston, S. C., received
two shotgun bla.sts in the back af-ter
reportedly failing to heed the
shouts of guard R. W. Cofey.
He was said yesterday to be im-proving
but still in critical condi-tion
in Stonewall Jackson Hospital
where he underwent surgery Mon-day
night and where he was kept
under close guard. Dr. Jefferson
Sebastian was the attending sur-geon.
The youth, who i s serving a
six-year sentence for grand larceny
was working in a roadway project
behind the Physics and Library
buildings. The work gang was from
state convict Camp No. 10 near
Greenville.
The prisoner is reported to have
run from the group behind the
jihysics building in the direction of
the path which leads to Letcher
Avenue.
The shooting occurred about 11
o'clock Monday morning.
Buck shot from the blasts dam-aged
the cars of Jerry Beaty, Maj.
R. E. Welch and Conrad Steele
which were parked behind the phy-sics
building. A stray shot was la-ter
found to have broken a window
in the second story apartment of
Mr. and Mrs. Beaty in the house
next to the physics building.
Camp Supt. E. T. Burnett re-ported
the guard shot Oglesby
from about 45 yards after warnings
to halt. He added the guard was
completely within his rights.
Guard Coffey said he looked to
see whether there was anyone in
the immediate area before he fir-ed.
A Kcwictv:
'Don Pascjualc' Is Successful
In Rockbridge Series Premier
By FRANK KLINE
Last Tuesday evening subscrib-ers
to the Rockbridge Concert
Theater Series attended the first
event of tjie 1955-56 season, a pres-entation
of Donizetti's "Don Pas-quale."
This entertaining and ly-rical
comic opera was presented
by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Thea-ter
to an attentive and pleasantly
fiurprised audience. Mr. Goldov-sky
ascended the stage prior to the
to the opening curtain and opolo-gized
for the lack of proper scen-ery,
as the limited facilities of the
lexington High School Auditorium
would not permit the stage crew
to arrange the scenery as it usu-ally
docs. However, Mr. Goldov-sky
certainly did not have to make
any apologies for the fine per-formance
which his group put on
for the Lexington music lovers;
the good singing and acting and
the sparkling music from the full
orchestra which accompanied the
stage action makes one feel that
even had there been no scenery
at all, the performance would
have been most enjoyable. Mr.
Goldovsky's excellent idiomatic
English translation added to the
enjoyment of the opera as so often
a great deal is lost in translation.
The cast included: James Joyce,
Bass, as a most enjoyable "old
and crusty" Don Pasquale; Robert
Gay, Baritone, as Doctor Malatesta,
the sly physician and family
friend; John McCollum, Tenor,
as Ernesto, and Jacquiiine as Nor-ina,
his lover.
The plot, set in the early 1800's,
revolves around Ernesto's attempts
to persuade his rich, old Uncle
Don Pasquale to allow him to mar-ry
Norina, a charming young wi-dow
with whom he is very much
in love. The old man is adverse to
the suit and refuses to grant per-mi.
ssion, declaring that he is going
to disinherit his nephew - heir and
marry a young girl to whom he
.shall leave his estate. Dr. Malates-ta
and Ernesto persuade Norina
to pose as the Doctor's young in-nocent
sister, Saphronia, who has
just emerged from a covenant. The
old Don is smitten by the lovely
young creature and begs her hand
in marriage. A friend of the Doc-tor's
poses as a notary and a phony
marriage contract is signed. No
sooner is the couple married than
Norina begins a shrewish career
of making the poor old man's life
miserable. By evening she has
made life so unbearable and spent
so much of his fortune that he is
more than glad to be let out of
his bargain. He finds the young
lady holding a tryst in the garden
with Ernesto. After the ruse is ex-plained
to him, he gives his con-sent
to the marriage of his two
young lovers. All join in the Fin-ale,
which emphasizes the moral
of the story, " I t is sheer madness
for an old man to take a young
wife."
The composer was born in Ber-gamo,
Italy, in 1797, and died
there in 1848. His music reflects
the lightness of the Roccoco period
in which he lived and resembles
that of Rossini, the man whom he
chose as his model. Don Pasquale
was first performed in Paris, Janu-ary
4, 1843. Donizetti's other well
known works are Lucia di Lama-moor,
and L'Elisir d'Amour; from
the former comes the most beau-tiful
"Sextet."
The next event in the series will
be on November 21sti
U was announced last Saturday to the Cadet that sixteen
VMI First Classmen have been chosen by the Who's Who Com-mittee
to appear in the 1955-1956 edition of Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universities. This publication is put
out annually to include all of the prominent students in vari-ous
activities on the campuses of American schools.
Academic standing is definitely
1956, a member of the Superin-tendent's
Advisory Committee, a
Distinguished Military Student, a
member of the Virginia Academy
of Scince, a member of the
1956 Ring Committee, and 1st Lt.
in E Company.
Another Distinguished student
in the pre-med. dept. is Dick
Fencel, who is also a member of
the IRC, a member of the Honor
Court, Co-Captain of the basket-ball
team, member of the New.
man Club, the Recreational Com-mittee,
and the Athletic Council.
Dick is a private in Charlie Com-pany.
I
J im Foster, 1st Lt. of Able
Company, is a member of the foot-ball
team, the baseball team, the
ASCE, the Superintendent's Advis-ory
Council, and the General Com-mittee
as well as serving as His-torian
of the Class of '56.
Both a Distinguished Student in
the civil engineering dept. and a
Distinguished Military Student.
Jerry Hale is a member of the
1956 Bomb staff, an officer in the
Southwest Virginia Club, a mem-ber
of the ASCE, and serves as 1st
Lt. of D Co.
The President of the First Class
is Thomas Massie who also is a
member of the Superintendent's
Advisory Council, the ASCE, the
Monogram Club, the General Com-mittee.
Tom is Co-Captain of the
Wrestling team this year and is a
Private in E Company. ^ ^
Pete McCrary a physics major, is
a member of the AIP, the Mono-gram
Club, the Armed Forces
Club, apd served as Student Repre-senatative
lo the National Associa-tion
of Manufacturer's Convention
in New York. Pete is both a Diii>
tinguished Student and a Distin-guished
Military Student as well
as being a Private in Fox Co.
Joe Mack, a Private in F Com-pany,
is a Distinguished Student
in the elcctrical engineering ma-jor
course. A member of the AIEE,
the VMI Cadet staff, and the Deep
South Club.
Bill Mears is the President o£
the Honor Court, Batallion Com-mander
of the 1st Batallion, and is
a member of the Virginia Aca-demy
of Science, the Armed
Forces Club, and the Superinten-dent'^
Advisory Committee. Bill is
also,a Distinguished Military Stu-
(continued on page H)
General Pate, '21, Suceeds
Shepherd, '17, As Top Marine
Lt. Gen. Randolph McCall Pate,
an adopted .son of Norfolk and a
graduate of V.M.I., 21', was select-ed
as the 21sl commandant of the
Marine Corps last Monday. The
selection was approved by Presi-dent
Ei.senhower, and General Pate
will assume his new duties at the
first of next year.
General Pate succeedes General
Lemuel C. Shepherd, VMI, '17,
another Norfolkian who has held
the top position for the last 4
years. General Shepherd and (Gen-eral
Pate's lives have been quite
siiniliar. Besides their being from
Norfolk and graduates uf V.M.I.,
both graduated from Norfolk's
Maury High School and were of-ten
stationed together during their
early years in the corps. To top
these simiiiaritics off, they are
distant cousins.
Upon assumption of his new
command. General Pate will be
promoted to a 4 star general. The
S7 year old seasoned veteran said
that he wai> " . . . Very much ex-cited,
quite humble, and scared. ."
when told of his new appointment.
He had been fourth on the list of
top Marine generals, but his ex-cellent
record undoubtedly gave
him the boost he needed.
General Pale was a leader in
his high school class, president of
his class for four years at V.M.I,
and First Captain at VMI. Fol
ing his commission in the Marine
Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1921
General Pate was stationed at
many Far Eastern posts and
in the Second World War, led the
first Marine Division on Guadal
canal fur which be received a Le-gion
uf Merit,
Later he received a gold star for
service at Iwo Jima and Okina
Since the Second World War, ho
has been connected with the Ma-rine
Training operi^tions and has
commanded the 1st and 2nd Ma
rine Divisiuns. At present he ii
assistant Commandant uf the Ma
rine Corps,
in the selection of these nominees.
Along with this goes the indivi-dual's
per.sonal activities both in
one of the necessary qualifications
campus organizations and athletics.
While it is not required that a
candidate be outstanding in all of
these endeavors he should be dis-tinguished
in one of them. The
various colleges nominate a cer-tain
number of students to be con-sidered
for inclusion in the pub-lication.
This quota is set up by
the Who's Who office. It varies
with each school according to the
number of enrolled students. In
the case of VMI the quota is
fourteen, but two extra nomina-tions
above the quota are allow-ed,
and thus VMI received six-teen
representatives in this year's
selection.
The men thai have been selected
for inclusion in this year's book
are Creed W. Abeil, Staunton, Vir-ginia;
Lawrence H. Bowen, Lynch-burg,
Virginia; James N. Brawner,
Atlanta, Georgia; Richard M. Fen-cel,
Lancaster. Pennsylvania;
James H. Foster, Buena Vista,
Virginia; Jerry W. Hale, Wythe-ville,
Va.; Thomas Massie, Lynch-burg,
Va.; Peter McCrary, Fall
Church Va.; Joe B. Mack, Atlanta,
Ga.; Wm. W. Mears, Collingswood,
New Jersey; Marshall Mundy, Roa-noke,
Va.; Robert Jere Real, Jack-
•son, Mississippi; C h a r l e s C.
Schoen, Atlanta, Ga.; Fred N.
Steven.son, Sarasota, F l o r i d a;
Charles R. Thomas, Strasburg, Va.;
and Frank C. Wilson, Fort Monroe,
Va.
Creed Abell is a Private in Dog
Company and a chemistry major.
He is President of the Religious
Council, President of the American
Chemical Society, and a member
if the Virginia's Synod's West-minster
Fellowship Council. Creed
has also been on the varsity tennis
team for two years.
Larry Bowen, another chemistry
major, is co-editor of the 1956
Bomb, a member of the Honor
Court, a Distinguished Student,
Music Society, a member of the
ACS, as wel las having served as
the Chairman of the 1956 Figure
Committee. Larry is a Private in
C Company.
J im Brawner is a Distinguished
Student in the biology dept., s
member of the General Commit
tee. Vice President of the Class of
Musketeers Invade Maryland;
Seek to Revenge Appomattox
On the 29th and 30lh of October,
the Cadet Musket Team will go to
Fort George G. Meade to partici-pate
in the 12th North-South skir-mish.
The team is composed of
eight cadets who will wear the uni-form
of the Corps of 1861 and will
fire the .58 caliber rifle-musket of
the Civil War. Mr. William Mark
Simpson has provided the team
with a replica of the New Market
battle flag which will be carried
in the parade after the shoot.
The North - South Skirmishes
started in the Spring of 1950 when
a Confederate team from Norfolk,
Va., invited a group of union rifle-men
to a shooting match. This was
held at Berwyn, Maryland. Octo-ber
of that year saw the second
skirmish held at Richmond, Vir-ginia,
in the old Seven Pines bat-tlefield
area. The same two teams,
the First Virginia Greys, of Nor-folk,
and the Washington Blue
Rifles, of Washington, D. C. shot
it out in the same direction of fire,
and were joined by an artillery
denmnstration group from Con-cord,
North Carolina, armed with
a bronze six pounder. The Third
skirmish was held at Norfolk, Va.,
at the occasion of the final reunion
of surviving Confederate Veterans,
June 1951. There were two new
teams then, from Richmond, Va.,
and Port Huron, Michigan. The
Yanks, ironically enough won that
one, their first. At this shoot the
teams drew up the Skirmish Rules,
which are still the governing rules
for all the skirmishes and partici-pating
teams. The eventJ have
been held semi-annually ever since,
Spring and fall. The event outgrow
the small civilian ranges in 1953
and have been fired on military
ranges since, at Quantico, Va., Ab-erdeen,
Md., Fort Lee, Va., and
now Fort Meade, Md. To date the
Southerners have won 7 times and
the Yanks have won 4 times.
Each firing unit is known as a
company and is composed of eight
men dressed in uniforms of the Ci-vil
War period, color being of the
side that most appeals lo thiiii.
These men are armed with original
rifle-muskets of the Civil War per
iod as well as leather equipnictit
and accoutrements. The Souther-ners
all have their uniforms made
at costumers based on the Army
Regulations of the Confederacy-
The Northerners use a lot of exist-ing
original uniforms as well a:-
some of modern maiuilacture,
though based on the old regula-tions.
The shooters make their own
ammunition completely, mo.tly
paper cartridges wrapped in tlie
old regulation manner, although
many are using a faster loading
cardboard tube cartridge. .Siiooting
is improving with each skirmish.
Although the teams are dressed
in the uniforms of the North and
the South, there are only friendly
feelings between all the shooters,
many of them being fast persunal
friiyids who see each other twice a
year. All shoot in the same direc-tion
and there is never any at-tempt
to bold a "sham battle." The
purpose of these skirmishes is
purely for fun and recreation.