The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-11
MAY HAVE TO WAIT SOME TINE.
NO orders TO Muster out Second
Georgia Received Yet.

Georgia Received Yet.
NO orders have yet come from the war
department to muster out the men of the
First Battalion of the Second Georgia Reg
iment. The delay in Issuing these orders
has caused some to hazard the opinion
that the Second Will be held and the men
given another furlough, pending a pos
slole decision of the war department to
hold the regiment permanently.
Officers of the battalion who were seen
yesterday, however. said they did not
think such was the case. They attributed
the delay of the war department 10 the
fact that the department has as yet re-
celVed no definite information as
to the intentions of the
Third Battalion, which is now in camp
IN Atlanta. The officers of this battalion
are giving the men plenty of time to de-
eide upon the question of whether they
wish to remain in the service or be mus
tered out
From an article in the Atlanta Journal
of Wednesday, it would seem that the
men are growing FESTIVE under this delay.
The Journal says: MANY of the men in
the Second Georgia are anxious to be
mustered out, and are complaining of the
delay that is keeping them i'm the service.
when they were ordered back to Camp
Atkinson after the thirty days leave Civ
en- them, majority of the men announced
that they would leave the army immed-
ately, and expected their discharge the
next day
"They have been waiting for the mus
tering out officer to give them their hon.
orable discharge papers, but this has not
been done. A. week ago the men of the
five companies here were assembled and
told that they would be given until
O'Clock that day in which to determine
whether or not they would remain in the
service. At that hour they were told more
time would be given them, and on several
occasions since then they have been given
further extensions.
This has been done, the men claim, to
gradually force them into remaining in
the service. This morning a delegation
representing the men of the regiment
came to the Journal and asked to be al
lowed to make a public protest against
the methods that they claim are being
employed to force them to re-enlist. The
spokesman for the party said they were
not being given any chance to leave the
army.
1.-THE officers of the regiment deny that
anything has been done towards inducing
any man to stay in against his will
Maj. Kendrick a few days ago address,
ed the men at the camp, and in his speech
said he did not think there was an officer
in the regiment who would try to influence
the men, but if such a thing was done
and it came to his knowledge, that he
would see that it was stopped immediate
ly."
The Third Battalion is the one which
was expected to go in practically solid ard
with companies formed from the First
and Second Battalions and the solid bat
talon promised from the First Regiment
to make up the new Second Regiment.
So far the officers who desire to remain
in have not succeeded in securing a COM
pany from either the First or Second Bat
talions of the Second Regiment, and ac-
cording to published reports less than half
of the men of the Third Battalion de-
sire to remain in the service. Unless
there is a large number of men in the First
Georgia who desire to remain in the serv-
ice the prospect of reorganizing the Sec
ond Regiment is not very fattering.
The mastering out officers are now at
work upon the First Regiment at Macon,
and as they cannot take up the Second
until they finish with the First
there is no immediate necessity for haste
in informing the war department of the
desires of the men. The desires of the
men of the First Battalion have already
been expressed in writing, however, and
their expression forwarded to the war de-
partment. There are a number of men
stopping at Camp Brown and as they have
nothing to do with the exception of an
occasional tour of guard duty they find
time hanging rather heavy on their hands.
The country members, of whom there are
a number. are especially anxious TO get
back 10 their homes. Many of the city
members have already gone to work, hav-
ing been so fortunate as to get their jobs
back or TO get new ones. A few have prom
ises of positions as soon as they get out
of the service.
AS haste is not one of the characteristics
of the war department, the boys viii have
to possess their souls in patience.