The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-31
CAMP NORTHERN.
The Last Night Of the Guards on the
Tented Field.

/ The Pooler Light Infantry Back at
/ Their Homes Kind and Compli-
mentary Remarks Of Lieut.. Satter-
lee - Praise for the Savannah SOL
diers From All Sides - Interesting
Notes of Their Return Journey.
! Griffin, Ga, May 30.-Long before
, reyeille this morning Camp Northeu
was a scene of great activity Quarter
masters could be seen hurrying about
! getting things together in readiness for
the departure of their respective com
| panies. The guard was relieved at
reveille after having spent the liveliest
4 night Of the encampment, There was a
! german given by the Guards to the
| young ladies Of Griffin, and their visit
/ ing friends, besides a dance by one of
the social clubs. There were in addition
to these entertainments, two ice cream
/ fcstiyals-So the "JOhnnies" staid out
! latter than usual
! Many of them had passes that would
/ bring them in up TO an early hour of the
morning, but there was quite a NUM-
/ Der out without leave. These are the
ones that gave the poor sentinels SO much
/ trouble. Capt George u. Cam, who was
| officer Of the day, had the numberof posts
| increased by the addition of u number Of
/ outpOSts or videttes. and all night long
/ they could be heard calling, Halt! who's
! there" A number of men from the
! Second regiment rather than be caught by
! the Scntnels spent the night in a freight
! car which was standing on the spur of
/ track leading out to the camp. At about
| . a. IN. Lieut.. Satterlee called upon the
! Guards and presented the men who had
! qualified as marksmen with their buttons.
! Capt. Cams sharpshooters medals will
! be sent to him. as they have not been re-
| ceived from the general government yet.
! Lieut.. Satterlee SAID he was only sorry
that he could not present more of the
| men with the buttons but as the
standard for our state is very high, he
| ventured to remark that men
who do not wear craftsmanship badges in
! Georgia could wear sharpshOOter medals
| in many of the other states
IN his remarks to Capt Cam, Lieut.
! Satterlee said that his shooting was
worthy Of a gold medal, and if the state
| could be induced to offer one he would
! be proud to present it TO ritemau 50
! skilled as the captain of Company Q Of
! the Guards.
The lieutenant said further that he
| was glad to see companies take such in
| tercsJ in rife practice, and hoped they
! would keep IL up, and also pay
attention to gallery practice with
reduced charges which would al
ways prove of great benefit to
! any company; while he could not present
! Company A with any badges or buttons,
! he could say without hesitation that their
| guns are the Cleauest in the battalion,
! and regrets very much that none of Capt.
! WilliamsOu's men qualified. Capt Will
! hanson made a few remarks to Lieut.. Sat
! terlee, thanking him for his Yalua Die aid
| to the state troops, to which the lieuteu-
ant replied, saying that his connection
| with the Georgia Volunteers has always
| given HIM great deal of pleasure and he
has great hopes of seeing them
rise TO still greater standard
of efficiency. Some of the best scores are
! Capt. @. r. Cam, 1870; sharpshooter
Sergt. Henry Blum, of company ID. ll2
out Of possible l75; Private Abbot
Thomas, of company h, 92 out of possi-
bic 80 marksmen.
Lieut.. j. M Bryan, of the field and
staff, 50; Commissary Sergt. j. S, Schley,
IS Lieut.. Davis Freeman. "a. Company
A. Lieut.. 4. p. Huger, 81; SerEt. j. -,
Carswell, IS; Capt W. w Williamson,
90. Company p, Private II. II. Wilson,
81; Lieut.. Ii. II. Bacon, ~; Corpl. G.. =.
! Lamar 10. Company c, Lieut. j. f..
Cam, 50: First Sergt. Henry Drane, 60
Private II. A. Suits, ~. Company ID,
COrpl. Wright Hunter, 81; Private j. NJ.
Dryer, as; Private l.. A. Haynes, ~; all
of these out Of possible 100
The individual figure of merit for the
shooting is as follows: Field and stan
2i.25, Company b BOSS, Company ID 1873
Company 1929, Company A l405. This
makes the figure oil merit for the battalion
lI93, which is not bad shooting
NOTES Oh THE RETURN JOURNEY.
The Guards carried back with them
two dogs from camp. One they have
named Willie and the other, which is a
very young black puppy, Little d."
! Willie seemed 10 form u great alta CHI
ment for the battalion, always following
the men q bout and Frightening up at once
on the appearance of man in a gray
| uniform. Little d" straved into Com
| pauy DIS street, and the boys have made
a regular pet of him. The Guards and
FoOler Light Infantry left camp exactly
on the hour designated by the command
| ing officer They left on special train
of five cars aud three baggage cars in
charge OF Conductor Brake and Engineer
Thomas Gibson. Capt D. G. Shaw, the
| travelling passenger agent, was along to see
! that everything went along smoothly.
| The train made splendid time, the
average was fifty-four miles per hour and
the trip was made with very few stops
and in q most comfortable manner.
The POoler Light Infantry were left at
their station and the train hurried on
to get TO Savannah by & O'Clock,
Lieut. Davis Freeman, adiutant, re-
turned last night, and Lieut.. Walter
/ Hartridge is acting adIutant in his stead.
In the target shooting there were only
II present not firing, out Of over coo men
| in camp, which shows that more interest
/ is being taken in this matter. Last year
none of the field and staf fired on tho
/ range.
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