At two o'clock P. M. on Saturday, the
process of enrollment was suddenly stopped. Two thousand six hundred men
had then been enrolled. In the evening the whole force was broken up
into twenty-six companies or divisions, as they were called first, of
one hundred men. Each division then made choice of its officers,
consisting of a Captain, two Lieutenants; and Sergeants and Corporals
were likewise appointed. The Command-in-Chief was entrusted by the
Executive Committee to Colonel Charles Doane; who, in all the subsequent
military operations proved himself to be a most skillful tactician and
efficient commander. The great body of the force at first under his
command, was infantry armed with flint-lock muskets, afterwards changed
for percussion ones. There were, in addition, a company of horse; two
companies of riflemen, and artillerists for two field pieces. The
evening closed with a sharp drill of all the divisions.
Sunday the Eighteenth day of May was bright and beautiful.
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