The morning news., 1898-08-22
FIRST OFF FOR KNOXVILLE.
TENTS STRUCK YESTERDAY AND A
HURRIED DEPARTURE IS MADE.

Men Disappointed at the Orders to
MOve-Ner ere in Hopes of Being
Mustered Out-PctitiOn Forwarded
to the President and Secretary OF
War-GOOd Spirits Sustained Even
in DisappOintment-Ba ID,
Georgia Artillery, to Go on Prac-
tice March Tuesday-ThOught That
Atlanta VIII BE the Objective
POint-Sergt. Hewett OF on "a Fur
Tough.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. A.-The boys
of the First Georgia Regiment were the
worst disappointed set of soldiers in the
service to-day when they received orders
to break cemp at once and proceed TO
Knoxville 10 the new camp established by
Gen. Mckee, the division commander.
The men had strong hopes that they
would be mustered out and sent home,
but this order knocked that hope 10 fin
.ders.
A petition was sent by a large number
from this city this afternoon to the Presi-
dent and the Secretary of War asking to
be mustered out, and to Senator Bacon,
asking his influence TO secure this end.
The boys took their predicament with
wonderfully good spirits under the cir
cumstances Their tents were struck this
afternoon and loaded on wagons, and by
$50 the regiment was at Rossville ready
for departure. They were loaded at once
on cars of the Southern Railroad and were
taken out in five sections, the last section
leaving about o'clock.
The embarkation was made without ac-
cident or incident. The regiment will not
find the camp ground prepared for them,
inasmuch as the detail which was to have
gone ahead of the command had not left
at noon to-day. Several of the boys
who were in the city on twenty-four hours
leave, were left in the city, not having
received word to report. They will leave
for Knoxville in the morning.
Battery B, Georgia Artillery will prob
ably go on the practice march Tuesday.
1t Is not known to what point the bat
terry will march, but the general impress
sion has gained ground among the boys
that they will march to Atlanta and there
be mustered out of the service. This is
not altogether improbable, as the express
turned to their homes. 1t is also stated
that the officers desire to be mus tered out
and so the idea that the boys will be march
ed to Atlanta this week is very popular.
Private Quarterman was kicked by a
horse and painfully injured to-day. 1t
is thought that he will be able to be out
in a few days.
Sergt. Hewlett has been discharged from
the hospital and left for Savannah to-
day on a thirty days furlough.
Sergt, Murphy, the veterinary of the
battery, has made a special application
for his discharge from the battery.
Private Register, who is i'll in his quar-
ters, is rapidly improving and will prob
ably be out In short time.
Privates Joseph Sansbury and Lindsey
| Brasler are i'll with fever.
The Twelfth Minnesota and the Fifth
Pennsylvania, comprising the first brig
ade of the Third Corps, received orders
! to-day to leave tomorrow for Lexington,
Ky.
The ambulance company for the third
| division will load at Rossville tomorrow
morning early and leave Immediately
thereafter for Lexington. It now looks
as though a portion at least of the Third
! Corps is to be broken up. Three regiments
| of this corps have already been ordered
| to their respective home states.
The Second Nebraska, the last of these
| three to receive moving orders, was or
dered by the war department this evening
to proceed to Omaha, Neb. All the sick
soldiers of the regiment who are leaving
and who are not able to go home alone,
will be left in the hospitals at Camp
| Thomas. Hundreds Of convalescents are
| leaving for home on furloughs.