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INDIANAPOLIS - Every year, on the first official day of annual training, National Guard soldiers line-up in the time-honored tradition of muster. Throughout history soldiers have mustered for battle, orders, compensation, ceremonies, or to be disbanded.
Records of the first muster of militias in the United States territory took place with Spanish settlers in Saint Augustine, Florida on September 16, 1565 in anticipation of a hurricane.
As colonists came to settle on more and more Native American lands, the once peaceful relations between them were threatened. By 1622, nearly one-quarter of the English colonists in Virginia had died in conflicts with the Native Americans.
The Army National Guard can trace their first mustering of soldiers together to 1636, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized a militia of local citizens to defend against the Pequot Indians of Connecticut.
In the territory of Indiana in 1801, militias were established to defend against Native Americans. Indiana petitioned Congress to become a state in 1811, but the issue was postponed until after the War of 1812, a war between United States and the British, who were allies of the American Indians.
Finally, on December 11, 1816, Indiana became the nineteenth state admitted to the Union. The United States Constitution recognized Indiana’s existing state militia and the nation depended upon state militias to supply troops.
For more than 214 years, Indiana has had an unbroken history of mustering state militia. Even today, during the 2015 annual training at Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Ind., soldiers from the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team carried out the time-honored tradition of muster in a field environment in front of Chief Warrant Officer 2 David Stewart, the personnel warrant officer.
| Date Taken: | 05.31.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 05.31.2015 14:01 |
| Story ID: | 165013 |
| Location: | INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, US |
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