The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-19
SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER.
Everything Running Smoothly al
Camp NOIlhel.

Ndip WI uOus
/ The One Hundred and Eightieth Reg
iment Growing More Proficient
Daily-The Officers Of the Day-A
! Private of the Madison Guards Made
Orderly to Col. Mercer The Work at
the Rifle Range.
Griffin, Ca, July 1S.-Everything is
running smoothly in Camp Northen now.
| The First Regiment, which is gener-
| ally conceded to be the crack regiment of
/ the state. is hard at work and learning
more and more every day.
Guard mounting to-day was carried out
in the regular form. Capt. Byrd of the
/ Hill City Cadets of Rome is officer of the
| day. First It. Irwin of the Conyers
Volunteers and 1t. Gleason Of the Greens
are officers Of the guard, Sergt Mccarthy
of the Greens sergeant Of the guard and
| commander Of the Second platoon. Capt.
O. 7. Kenan of Macon, who is instructor
of guard mounting, gave valuable in
struction to both men and officers Capt.
Kenan is good officer, and believes in
having everything done properly and in
true military style.
This morning at $50 o'clock the va
rious battallions of both regiments were
drilled. The First regiment was away
ahead of anything in the state in this. as
they are all from Savannah, and have
more opportunities Of drilling together
than the third, or any other regiment
! The men from the Third regiment who
are on guard with the first, have excel
lent instructors in the members from the
First, and they all seem very willing to
learn.
THE GALATIANS.
The Chatham artillery and Atlanta ar
tillery have charge of the southern end of
the camp and post guard at night only
The chatham's fired the evening gun this
| evening at retreat and their work was
well done and properly executed.
A private of the Madison Home Guards
| captured the position of orderly to Col
| Mercer to-day. His gun was certainly
! very good Adjt O'Byrne had it on ex-
hibition at his tent all the afternoon, and
the men from the Savannah regiment all
called to inspect it.
Four companies from the Third Regi-
ment occupied the rife range to-day
shooting a 200 and 300 yards They sent
| but few men to the 500 yard range. The
| highest score, IS out of So was made by
| private of Company F., Third Regiment.
| The First Georgia Regiment win shoot
/ tomorrow, starting with Company A. of
the Blues, and ending with the Cadets,
| Company E. and some good shooting is
! expected. The Blues will go on at 6
| O'Clock in the morning and hope to carry
| a good number TO the 500 yard range.
Lieut. Lowell of the Cadets acted as in
| spectOr of rife practice of the Third
D , a.
| spectOr of rifle practice for the First
Regiment and will have his hands full all
| day tomorrow.
DRESS PARADE.
Dress parade this afternoon was held at
sunset ami the ceremony was beautifully
| carried out.
Lieut. Satterloe is the post adiutant,
! and with his other duties has as much as
! he can do
Lieut. Rigley, adiutant, of the Athens
! Banner, is in camp. He is acting post
sergeant-maior, and also clerk for Lieut.
| Satterlee.
Tomorrow Capt. f. H. Almond, of the
Conyers Volunteers, will be officer of the
day, and Lieut., Nell, of the Cadets, and
Lieut. Pennick, of the Madison Home
Guards, officers of the guard Everyone
is interested at guard mounting, as a man
from almost every company in camp has a
chance of being selected orderly and this
honor is eagerly sought after
Capt. Greenaugh of the regular army
has been a little sick to-day and he is
| greatly missed around headquarters as
well as the camp generally.
At company drill at 530 o'clock this
afternoon all the companies were out and
drilled in fine style The Cadets and
| Greens both drilled in extended order, or
skirmish drills. This is one of the strong
points of the Cadets and their drill, as well
as that of the Greens, attracted a great
deal of attention.
The companies of the Third regiment
all drill well in the manual of arms, and
are improving in marching daily.
Saturday will be governors day. The
governor and his staff will visit the camp
and review the troops. The Savannah
troops are all great admirers of Gov.
NOrthen on account of his great interest
in the military.
At the officers meeting this morning,
Lieut.. Satterlee gave a very interesting
lecture on the preparation of reports of
target practice, after which Col. Mercer
made short address to the officers.