Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
NEWS FROM THE KNAPsACK.

The First Regiment and the Chatham
Artillery Invited to the Rome En-
campment-The Cadets and the Hous-
ton Drill-HOnOrs to Savannah Sol
diery.
The Chatham Artillery will probably
attend the Rome Encampment in July.
Col. c. w. Anderson, of the First Velun-
teer Regiment, has been requested to act
as one of the judges OF the Grand Inter
State Competitive Prize Drill to be held
at Columbus on the 2Sth of April.
A prizedrill will take place in the opera
house at Opelika on the 21st. The Mont
gOmery (Ala). Greys, Columbus Guards
and Auburn Cadets will contest for the
prize.
An effort is being made to reorganize
! the West Point Guards. The OrganiZa-
! ton has been sleeping for several years
| stood high as a military organiza-
ton, and there is no reason why it can
not again.
| The Columbus Guards have accepted
an invitation to participate in the COM
| petitive drill at Houston, Texas, and are
now constantly drilling for the occasion.
( The following is a list of the members
! who have been selected to go to Houston
/ and enter the contest:
! ftI5I II ouE-Jc6Se Dedfu, -- OO00elly,
! George Z. Glenn, lobe Newman.
! Second FOur-Ed. Burrus, Lawson Kim
! blough, Randolph Mott, D. Fl. Sumner.
Third FOur-RObert Thomas, Henry
Hunter, Toombs Crawford, Lunsford
/ Daniel.
Fourth Four-George Brown, James
! BrOdnaX, Joseph TIllman, Max Banner.
Fifth FOur-Lee Harris, George Riddle,
! j. Norman Pease, Charlie Harrison.
Sixth Four-Frank Colzey, Hart Joseph,
! Will Peabody, Joe Harrison.
Right Guides. G. Goodman.
! Left Guide-McCurdy Sparks.
Oficers-Capt. A. G. Sneed, cOmman-
der; l.. II. Chappell, Second Lieutenant.
Capt. Reese Crawford First Lieutenant.
The probability of the Savannah Cadets
participating in the Houston encamp
ment in May is exciting a great DIAL Of
interest, not only in military circles and
! among the friends of the company, but
among the citizens. While Capt. Branch
has not openly said that the COM
pany will go, and while a vote has
not been taken to decide what
! number of the members will 90, or
| whether funds can be obtained, yet it is
understood to be fact that Capt. Branch
! and a large number of the members are
anxious to go, and that nearly, if not
| quite, sufficient sum has been pledged
TO detray all expenses Of the trip. There
| seems TO be nothing in the way of the
| Cadets entering the contest. They are
splendidly drilled, as the citizens have
! seen from the drills given in their armory.
The officers of the regiment and of the
| other military organizations of the
city are equally anxious that they
shall enter, as the probability
of their bringing home the prize
| is almost a certainty. The matter will
probably be acted upon this week, and
| the question or 90 or stay will be decided.
The First Volunteer Regiment has been
invited to attend the Grand Encampment
! of Southern SOldiery at Rome from July
to II. The invitation was received a
few days ago by Col. G. W. Anderson,
| who has been unable to place it before
the command. The encampment has
| already been announced in the MORNING
| NEWS, and will doubtless be one Of the
stirring events in the history Of the gal
liant sOldiery of the South, that will long
be remembered. Colonel Anderson has
! been invited to assume command of the
! ehcampmeht, but has not yet given his
! reply. Colonel A. was in command
of the encampment at Rome in July 1880,
four years ago, with Col. Z. j. Magruder.
a nephew of Gen. j. Bankhead Magruder,
gallant soldier and graduate of the
| Virginia Military Institute, second
! in command. Colonel Magruder was
! Qul lll9 buG W III liGulGudLJ OOlOICl VI Iub
gallant old Eighth Georgia Regiment, in
which the beloved Barlow fought, and to
which the OglethOrpe Light Infantry was
attached during the entire conflict. He
/ is now Chairman of the Encampment
Committee on Camp. The Chairman of
the Committee on Reception and Enter
tainment of Veterans, Col. I. r. Towers.
was the Colonel of the Eighth Georgia
at the close Ofthe war. Capt. J C. Prlntup,
General Manager of the Encampment,
! Col. Geiser and Capt. Pepper, who are
/ identified with its intere SITS, were all Off
GERS of Col. AndersOn's command in 1880
! and contributed in making the encamp-
ment the brilliant success it was adj
nlitted to be by all.
| The LaGrange Light Guards, which he
| long to the Sixth Georgia Battalion, were
| reOrganized on Tuesday night with a
membership of thirty. J. f. Swanson was
! chosen Captain. j. w. Stephens First
/ Lieutenant, p. G. Awtry Second Lieuten-
! ant, and W. S. Cox Breyet Second Lieu
I tenant.