Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

32 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THECHAPTERIV.1816-1837.Changes of Officers— Accession of George the Fourth — Arrival of SirHoward Douglas— Becollections of John B. Marshall— MilitiaRecords— Companies Outside f Saint John— Kew CompaniesFormed— Loyalist Jubilee.aFTERthe cessation of the war but little in the way ofhistory must be expected from our organization untilthe time of the regimental formation. There are ofcourse the records of promotions, a few salutes fired in commemorationof public events and the other trivial incidentswhich constitute the history even of a regiment of the line in atime of profound peace. The militia laws of this period didnot require a great deal of service from the citizen soldiery.Generally one or two days drill by companies and one day'smuster by battalions was considered sufficient, but little as itwas this much was required until long after the formation ofthe regiment. To-day there, are few incidents in the routineof any corps that are thought to be history. Inspections andreviews, drills and salutes are mostly a matter of course, andthe writer of the next century will probably think that we havedone as little to deserve perpetuation as some of the presentday may think our predecessors have done. Yet they, as wellas their successors, did all that there was to be done, andthough the record may appear somewhat barren, yet it is oneof which any soldier may well be proud, that of duty peri'.):mcd.