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    ----A hundred or more of the boys from Camp Weld, got on a big old spree up town last night, and transgressed the decalogue in divers and sundry particulars. They were on the eve of a cold and tedious trip, to fight the battles of their country in New Mexico, and probably supposed they should show they comprised the grit that made Billy Wilson's zouaves so famous in the east. While due allowance should be made to our brave citizen soldiers, of the Colorado Volunteers, for the spirit and sacrifice they are volunteering, at this severe season, to encounter the trials of war in this campaign, to which they are starting, no little blame has been awarded for the affairs of last night. Some blame the regulations and discipline under which they were allowed to come off on their general jollification, and some reprimand the peculiar phase of matters and things under which they have been forced to suffer and succumb under necessities.--They will not soon again renew their trespasses as they start to-day, and have a long, hard road to travel. Success be with them, on the tented field.

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    ----Camp Weld, on Saturday evening last, after the Regiment left, and before the Home Guards were fully reinstated, looked as sad and "solemncolly" as the countenance of a California widow. The genial face of the Major [Chivington-chw], and the stately walk of the venerable drum-major, on dress parade, were all non suit; and although any number of fair, forsaken ladies were still to be espied in and about the several quarters, yet a body felt as if he was treading alone some banquet hall deserted. Sic transit gloria mundi!

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    SKETCH OF CAMP WELD.--Mr. John E. Dillingham showed us a most beautifully executed sketch of Camp Weld, drawn by him lately, and looking as large as life and quite as natural. Every part of the interior, and the exterior too, appears in the view as boldly and clearly almost as if a person was standing on the hill overlooking the Camp. The Regiment on dress parade, the crowds of spectators here and there through the Camp ground, the officers on horseback, and indeed all the actual minutia usually noticeable, are pictured in india ink with an artistic skill and tasteful truthfulness, equal to any excellent painting we have witnessed for years. It is respectfully dedicated to Hon. L. L. Weld, at whose orders it was taken. Mr. Dillingham has been in these regions for considerable time, engaged in sketching for the eastern illustrated papers, and corresponding with several journals east. He was formerly associated with Col. Ellsworth, in Chicago, Illinois. He intends taking views and sketches of interesting scenes and objects throughout the mountains and the Territory, this spring. We commend him as an artist, to the courtesies of our mountain friends. If this splendid sketch of Camp Weld would be lithographed, it would make a most handsome and interesting picture for the drawing rooms here and in the States.

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Unknown, "Sketch of Camp Weld," Weekly Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado Territory, Saturday, 1 March, 1862, page 4.