The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-26
FIRST GOING TO PORTO RICO.
.,.ar FIRST CORPS TO SAIL FROM
HAMPTON ROADS.

n-ro Regiment Eager to Get March
orders-Many Inccnveniences
nd in Their Present Camp.
49,. Rcmiment Drills in Brigade
,,..,,,,tion-scanty supply OF Wat
Their Camp-PersOnaI Notes
About the Men.
l.,.4-54nauga Park, Ga. July 25.-The
-.... Georgia will be off for Porto Rico in
a-5,,.s for sure. One brigade stands
1.a..sr the First Georgia's brigade and
-ast br gade is almost certain to
depart tomorrow.
The Georgia men are all expectancy, ev-
.., man ,f them is keen for the arrival of
marching orders.
lis given out tonight that the entire
FIRST Corps viii go and go at once, en-
barking from Hampton Roads. There is
,or therefore, the slightest possibility of
NE Georgians being left behind.
Perhaps if the present camp afforded
many conveniences it does not afford, the
men would not be so keen to leave home
for distant shore. Water. for Instance,
% very scarce. The one little wen near
their camp contains water that does not
agree with the men. Enough cannot be
hauled it seems, from Crawfsh Spring.
Oaen the boys come in from drill weary
hot and thirsty, and are either confronted
with empty barrels or a scanty allowance
because of shortage in the water supply,
all of which is very discomfting.
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nation First Brigade, Second Division,
First Corps, Gen Roe.
Cant. Bob Hodges was last night given
rousn5 reception by members of Com
pany i.
Private Hers, Company K, has the
melsi,s.
Corp snan, Company K, has been ten
meut, but VIII decline.
prNale Free, Company d, has been dis
charged from the hospital
Private Quiniy, Company K, expects to
be discharged from service on account of
physical disability.
Second Lieutenant Corbett, Company I.
has been promoted to first lieutenant. vice
Lieut. Sanders, transferred to the Third
Georgia.
Private Mcdaniel, Company 1, is sick
al the hospital.
Regimcntal quartermaster, Sergt. Harry
Mcdonald. IT,, Company 3, has gone to
Atlanta for brief stay.
Lieut.. r. C. Gatman, Company A, is at
Atlanta for an optical examination.
Company II is preparing to purchase a
supply Of drugs to take to Porto Rico
This company has a sick fund of S75
skipper, Arnneiter and Bnlingston of
Brunswick are recruits for Company G.
CorpL r. L. Williams, Company T. has
with him his mother and sister from
Roam Mountain, Tenn.
IL appears that the guns that arrived
for Battery b. Georgia Artillery have been
turned over to those going to the front,
but Battery B has received notice that
other guns for the battery are on the road
and viii probably be received at the camp
Thursday. They We're shipped on the 18th.
In be meantime it is the intention of the
oticerstto select a squad from the bat
terry and drill them in sharpshooter's prac-
tee unJil the guns arrive. The men will
probably De picked out and the practice
begun in very short time.
The sick reports of the battery show
that all Of the sick are improving. Sergt
Wakeman and Corpl. Shearhouse, who
have been in the hospital for some time,
suffering from fever will probably be out
III IL rev Gays.
Private Dufour, fever patient, will also
probably be out in a short time.
private Bowers, who has been sick in his
quarters for several days. is improving
Private Dixon, who is suffering with fe-
yer. is sJil very Ill.
Corpl Garmany, who has been on the
SICK list for several days, has recovered.
IL has been reported in one of the Sa-
Vanhah papers that Chief Cook Lundy,
otHerWise known as Admiral Dewey"
mad died in camp, but, contrary to this re-
port the admiral" is still very much
awe ana, as the boys say, cooking three
meals each day"
First sergt Bacon is in Savannah on a
Week Through.
1HNaJe Hollis is in Columbus, Where ne
went on account Of sickness in his family.
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GOLD DUST FROM DAWSON.