been before, would get into civilian clothes again feeling more and more like hardened veterans.

On July 25 the National Guard of Massachusetts was called out. Battery A quickly assembled at the Commonwealth Armory in Boston and lost no time in getting ready for the anticipated campaign ahead of it. The first morning was an extremely busy one, sorting out the immense store of old Battery property to determine the necessary equipment which we expected to need later on, and the extra luggage and past records which were to be stored away in some warehouse. While the cannoneers were working hard in this way, the drivers had harnessed up the horses and hitched them to the guns, caissons, and other rolling stock preparatory to leaving. Just before noon they pulled out for Boxford, where our training camp was to be established.

The rest of the Battery stayed in Boston over night, and went up by train the next day. They took with them all the supplies, equipment, and excess wheeled material; an item which took no less than four trucks to transport from the armory to the train yards. Noon found the whole Battery in Boxford, near the flat, bare drill field formerly used by the First Corps Cadets. No sign of a camp was visible. By nightfall, however, the pyramidal tents were up and in perfect alignment along the Battery street, the guns and caissons were parked with mathematical accuracy, and the horses on the picket line had marked out their place in the scheme of things with tooth and hoof.

The first week was seven days of readjustment in

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