The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-20
TONS OF MAIL LYING AT TAMPA
MATTER FOR sHAFTER,s CORPS TO
BE SENT TO KEY WEST.

NTiamj-Consists of Half Ton of
Letters and Five Tons of Papers.
Day Brings No Important De-
veIOpment in the Camp of the
second Georgia.
TAMPA. Fla, June ia dispatch was
received here tonight instructing the post
master at Tampa to forward all mail adj
dressed to the troops in Gen. Skaters
army corps to Jacksonville, from which
roint il will be sent via Miami to Key
West.
There the mail will be placed upon dis
patch boat and sent TO Gen. Skaters
headquarters.
The dispatch does not indicate or init
mate where Gen. Shafter is.
Upon investigation it was found that
there was over half ton of letters and
fully five tons of newspapers.
The half ton of letters will go forward
tomorrow, and the five tons of papers
will be sent as soon as arrangements can
be made for transporting it.
Nothing of unusual Importance transpir-
ed in the camps of the Second Georgia to-
day The command is expecting orders to
move somewhere, just exactly where, no
one knows.
This afternoon Private lilly, who will
likely soon be appointed chaplain of the
Second, conducted religious services in the
open air. This divisions commander, Gen.
c. V Henry, left for Washington tonight
having been called there for consultation
with the war department.
Five hundred recruits reached Tampa
this morning from Mcpherson barracks.
The Fifth Regiment of immunes
is to be raised in the states
of Alabama and Mississippi, six
companies from each state. Lieut. Col. A.
A. Wiley of this regiment is here familiar
izing himself with the new phases of the
military situation.
BY a recent act of Congress ten regi-
ments of immunes were authorized to be
raised south of line drawn from Bati-
more to Cincinnati, where diseases of
Southern countries were frequently con-
tracted hence the name of these ten reg
iments which are to be composed of gen
uine mmunes.
Four of these regiments are to be colored
and six white. All the officers, however
will be white, and the commissioned Off
GERS will be appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate.
The selection of the company captains
and lieutenants will be left in a measure
to the members of the organizations.
The two first officers of the Fifth i'm
mune volunteer regiments are: Col. ii. ii.
Sargent, an old West Pointer whose book
on military science has won him reputa-
bic place in military circles; and Lieut.
Col. Wiley, who is prominent Albanian,
having served the Montgomery districts
in the Alabama legislature many times.
The other officers of the regiment have
been commissioned and are now at Column
bus, Miss, recruiting. This regiment will
be attached 10 Gen. Coppinger's corps.
Walter T. Stewart and E. S. Skipper Of
Company D, Second Georgia Volunteers,
both of Atlanta, are to be court martialed
tomorrow at the headquarters of the
Fifth Ohio Regiment Volunteers. They
were the persons who raised such dis
turbance in the Georgia camp by fighting
on Friday afternoon.
Private Ostercamp of Company G, Fifth
Maryland Volunteers, who was accident
ally shot yesterday, died this morning at
o'clock
AT ) o'clock this afternoon his remains
were inferred at the government cemetery
in Ybor City. The members of his com
pany attended in a body, firing the usual
salute over the body as it was lowered in
its last rest
The order present your left arm is not
to be found In the United States Army
Manual now in use, but is heard every aft
ernoon after dress parade, and the officer
who gives this order is Surgeon Davis of
the division, or one of his assistants, Dr.
en- as a preclude to the insertion of vac
cine virus in the arm of the man address,
ed. Acting under instructions from the
department at Washington, DR.. Davis and
his assistants are vaccinating all of the
members of the Second Georgia who have
not been recently vaccinated. Late every
afternoon one of the companies is called
into line in the company street and the left
arm of every man is required to be eX-
posed. If the surgeon decides from the
appearance of the mans arm that he has
only recently been vaccinated he is allow
ed to pass but should the arm show no
scar, or from its appearance it is evident
that the man has not been vaccinated for
many years, he is required TO allow the
virus inserted in his arm. So far about
800 men in the regiment have been vacci-
mated, and DIR. Davis estimates that when
he finishes his work in this line that he
will have vaccinated about 600 men. He
says that he finds that a
greater per cent. of the men who
enlisted from country districts need to
TO be vaccinated than those who come
from the cities. For the first week the
men go ahead with their regular duties
without serious inconvenience, but from
that time on the arms OF these men get so
sore and painful that they are relieved
from work of any kind until they get well.
During the period when the arms of the
men who have been Vaccnated are in a
swollen and painful condition, thcir names
are placed 90 the sick list, and in conse-
quence of this fact, the sick list in the
Georgia camps is unusually large at this
time. So far all of the men who have mad
virus inserted in their arms are getting
along as well as can be expected. The men
do not object TO being vaccinated, as they
understand that the government requires
that it shall be DONE and that the sur
geons are working under instructions
from the department at Washington. The
work would have progressed much more
rapidly than it has but for the fact that
a the supply of fresh virus has been short
upon one or two occasions and DIR. Davis
has had to wait until he ooulG secure the
quantity that he needs to complete tie
vaccination of the members of the regi-
ment. He hopes to get through with the
Georgia regiment early next week.
Private Claud Thomas of Company IL.
commanded by Capt. Nevens of Rome. en-
joys the distinction of being the first mem
ter OF the Second Georgia who has drawn
blood with his rifle His shot was ac-
curate produced instant death and his