Alan Pitts'guns'?Wed Feb 7 09:42:50 2001 HayesWhen I was at Alabama, anytime an underclassmen made the mistake of refering to his rifle as a gun, senior ROTC cadets responsible for drill had the offending individual stand in front of the squad and repeat the following ditty. While doing so, you were also instructed to gesture at the two different objects in question, one of which was an appendage of the male anatomy:"This is my weapon, this is my gun, One is for fighting, one is for fun"There's probably more to it than that, but it's all I can remember. Anyway, I only needed to do it once. Since then the little verse above always springs to mind whenever some poor soul uses the wrong term.Anyway, didn't you mention seeing another muster roll for the City Guard? It would make sense that a roll would've been composed at Talladega after Lockett collected enough names for his company. Did I misunderstand?By the way, another two companies were collected at Camp Watts and sent to Montgomery for provost duty. They were called the "Swanson Guard". These two were later assigned to the 21st Alabama, about the same time as Lockett's "City Guard" disappeared. Is there a pattern here?guns & fun — Purvis, Thu Feb 8 23:21 Guns and Guards — Hayes Lowe, Wed Feb 7 10:40 Alabama City Guard — Alan J. Pitts, Wed Feb 7 12:05