The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
RAE REVIEWS THE REGIMENT.
PRONoUNCEs 1T THE HANDsOMEsT
AT THE PARK.

AT THE PARK.
Four NOn-COmmissiOned Omcers OF
Company Il Reduced TO the Ranks
for Absence without Leave - Re
IigiOus Exercises in the y. NJ. c. \.
Reconsideration for the Rifle Range
acknowledgements Men TO BE Court
martiaIIed.
Chattanooga, Tenn, July 9.-This morn
tng the First Georgia was reviewed at reg
mental driH by Brig. Cen Rae, First BIZ
gade. First Division, Third Corps.
The general had not seen the regiment
at drill before ana he expressed himsef
as more than pleased. He said he had not
seen a regiment so handsome in appear
ance at Chickamauga.
The decision in the court martial trial
of four non-commissioned officers of Com
pany E has been published. The boys
were absent without leave and every one
OF the four were reduced TO ranks. Lieut..
Lamar and Corpls. Shockley. Findlay and
SireublIng are the young men who were-
so unfortunate as to lose their stripes.
On the bulletin where the decision Is
posted Col. Lawton adds word of warn
Ing to the non-commissioned officers OF
the regiment, impressng on their minds
the fact that they are expected to set
the privates the right example, iq all
things.
Every night the past week religious exef-
cises have been held in the Young Mems
Christian Association tent, with an aver
age attendance of lS7. Sunday morning
and night and Wednesday night Rev. Ed.
f. Cook the chaplain, conducts the ser
vices. This week ex-Chancellor William
Ellison Boggs for twenty years chan
cellor of the state university, addressed
the boys on religious subjects. Maxwell,
the great singer, who is left here by
Moody, sang at these services.
Col Lawton and Lieut. Col. Brooks Sc
leeted as a location for the rifle range a
point two miles from SnOdgrass hill and
four miles from camp Here the men
will be marched in companies or baual-
ions, most likely companies, for target
practice. The idea pleases the men 1m-
Inensely.
Lieut.. Sanders, Company A, has been
ordered. through the war department [
Washington, to proceed TO Atlanta and re-
port for duty as a captain in the Third
Georgia.
great many of the boys associate the
Fourth of July with a rather unfortunate
conception of liberty. They went away
without leave, some of them returning
only to-day They VIII be court mardaled,
every one of them. The discipline of no
regiment in the park is more rigid or ef-
fective than that of the FIRST Georgia.
All of the men of the regiment are cry
ing out with one accord against remain
ing here while others speed to the front,
where battles are fought and victories
won.
Sergt. Wooten of Company F Is sick
Sc ~ Tr.T fcrnf In f..
stead.
Company X had its share of the Fourth
of JHly.
Corpl. Longford, Company L, is recov-
ering from his late illness.
The First Georgia boys defeated the
bal team Of the Sxty-flrst Pennsylvania
by a score of % to 3. Pitcher Searcey,
Company F. went in the box the last four
innings and famed twelve men in success
sion. Other games are being planned.
Company T men wish the Chatham Ar
tillery men were nearer. The latter are
two miles away.
Private E. NJ Henderson, Company H.
has just returned from Albany. where ne
attended the funeral of his mother. Pri-
vate Seares and Corpl. Chambers are the
only seriously sick men of Company H.
the latter remaining al Fort MCPHERSON.
s. T. Wood, Company L, was discharg-
ed from the division hospital to-day.
Private Frank Kirkland, Company G.
was taken TO the division hospital to-day
First Sergeant T. NJ. Nelson Of Company
c is a University Of the South man. He
was at Sewanee from 1879 to 1888
Company c is improving in health. At
one time since arriving here only sixteen
men were capable of fun duty To-day
forty-nine reported in fine condition. Capt.
T. OBrien, Company c. will leave in a
day or two for Southwest Georgia on a
recruiting expedition.
Privates Ed Hutchinson, II. A McDon-
aid and O. c. Dorsey, Company c, are in
the division hospital.
First Sergeant Roman is exceedingly
fond of Company L. which, under the
name of the Irish Jasper Greens, has
seen service in three wars. In the late
war this company fought with the Con-
federate forces, under Gen. Cleburne, near
the place of their present encampment
The present membership Of the company
is composed of splendid men. worthy of
Irish descent. They say they have the
best officers that ever commanded a com
pany
Battery B, Georgia Artillery. were EN-
gagged in drill to-day and did we'll No
sickness is reported and the men in the
hospital are reported as rapidly improv-
ing.