Regimental Headquarters, the Band, and the Third Battalion, Twenty-Seventh Infantry, with sufficient officers and men attached to form companies of three officers and one hundred and fifty enlisted men for each company, joined the Provisional Regiment of Infantry at Dubuque, Iowa. New infantry organization and equipment were to be tested under conditions as similar to those of actual warfare as it was possible to provide. 

    During June, July and August, the Provisional Regiment marched about three hundred miles, and participated in maneuvers with a brigade of National Guard troops. The relative values of individual pack equipment were determined as well as the merits of various articles of clothing. One unit equipped with the blanket rolls, which encircled the body, endeavored to march and maneuver as well as another provided with the more modern pack carrier. Field service regulations were carefully worked out under maneuver conditions. A Machine Gun Company was formed of the Machine Gun Platoons of the Fourth, Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth regiments. 

    Tables of Organization for 1914 allowed a provisional Headquarters Company, Machine Gun Company, and Supply Company for each regiment. 

REPORT OF WISCONSIN MARCH

June 10-Dubuque, Ia., to Fair Play,  Wis. 
11 to New Diggings. 
12 to Shullsburg. 
13 to Mineral Point. 
14 to Dodgeville. 
15 to Wisconsin River. 
16 no March 
17 to Mazomaine. 
18 to Black Earth. 
19 to Middleton 
20 no March. 
21 to Madison. 
22-23 no March. 
24 to Ashton. 
25 to Sauk Road. 
26 to Paynes Corner 
27 to Baraboo River. 
28 to Ableman. 
29 to Reedsburg. 
30 no March.
July 1 to La Valle 
2 to Elmy. 
3 to Kendalls.
4 no March.
5 to Norwalk.
6 to Sparta.

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