The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-23
SECOND IS NOW UNDER KLINE.
NEW COMMANDER WAS MEMBER
CARTER COURT MARTIAL.

to Present Regiment stand OF
CoIors-Gov. Pingree to Arrive To-
day.
Tampa, Fla, June 22-Gen. Guy V.
Henry, division commander, who left Tam
pa a few days ago for Washington where
he had been called for conference by the
military department, viii not return here,
as he has been assigned for duty in Vir-
giuia. and will have charge, It is believed,
of the Cuban relief invasion. He has been
succeeded as division commander by Brig
Gen. Jacob A Kline. The Second Georgia
regrets very much to lose Brig. Gen.
Henry as its division commander, but
congratulates itself in having secured
Brig. Gen. Kline. who is recognized as one
of the best commanding officers in the
service.
Five hundred RECRUITS for the Second
Cavalry reached Tampa tonight from
Mcpherson barracks.
The Second Georgia is rapidly getting
rid of all of it's surplus effects. To-day
twelve or fifteen large cases of blankets,
uniforms, camp equipment and guns were
shipped to Savannah. This property be-
longs to the Savannah Volunteer Guards
battalion, and is consigned to the armory
of that organization.
Col Brown to-day received telegram
from Gov Atkinson announcing that he
had appointed Private w. r. Leal1en of
the Savannah Volunteer Guards a second
lieutenant in the Third Georgia now being
formed. Private Leaken being in Sa-
vannah on leave of absence the Governor
friends of Private LealSen in the Second.
while they reluctantly part with him, con-
graduate him on his promotion.
Assurances have reached the Second
Regiment from Capt. James w. English
of Atlanta, that the young ladies of that
city win soon forward here a set of regi-
mental colors. Capt. James Erwin act
ing adjutant general, will give the young
ladies all the Information that they win
need in getting the flag.
A large number of ladies from the city
were out this afternoon to see the Second
Georgia on dress parade and many the
compliments We're passed upon the com
mand as il passed in review.
Gov. Pingree of Michigan will arrive at
Tampa the Florida Central and PENN
suar Railroad tomorrow morning.
Col McGuerren and staff will go on the
northbound train to the meeting point ard
escort the Governor to Tampa, where he
will be met by the Thirty-second Michigan.
The Mayor and City Council and ex-Gov.
Mitchell of Florida will be part of the es-
cort. The regiment will return to camp
and in the afternoon Gov. Pingree and
party will visit the camp and review the
troops.
The First Regiment. District of Column
bia Volunteers, left their camp at $50
this afternoon under heavy marching. or
ders. They marched down the main
street up 10 Tampa Nights, where they
are stopping tonight. AT o'clock in the
morning they will turn out and go
through four hours hard drilling, return
ing to their camp about 10 O'Clock in the
mOrHing.
The Second New York returned to their
camp this afternoon from similar march.
Late this afternoon a party of four vol
unteers attacked a negro driver with
bricks, beating him so badly that he faint
cd from loss of blood. They were not ar
rested.
Within the last few days Gen. Kline's
division has received a number of orders,
al of which Indicate that the division,
which is made up of the Second Georgia,
First Florida, Thirty-second Michigan,
Sixty ninth New York and the Third and
Fifth Ohio, will be off within a week or ten
days, and probably sooner. The first order
was to get ready to be transferred to
Jacksonville. Then this order was sup
transports as soon as they reached Port
Tampa. 1t is given out here that the
j.. government has fifteen transports now on
the list for the second fleet of boats that
is to convey troops to -? This is the
most definite landing point given out by
the authorities, and likely that viii be the
place that the troops will be headed for.
After the landing the name will be chang
ed, but the location will be the same. Some
of the transports left Fernandina Monday
for Port Tampa, and are expected at the
port Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest
When the order was received to prepare
these commands TO go to Jacksonville, the
general court martial was on, the inves-
tigation being held at the headquarters of
Col. Brown, president of the court. The
court was at that time ordered to hurry
up the investigation of the charges against
Maj. Ramsey and not to go into those
against Lieut.. Leary, as the members Of
the court were officers of the regiment des-
iguated in the order to prepare for removal
10 Jacksonville. This reinforcement of
the Leary Trial was doubtless due to the
fact that the members of the court might
be called upon in the middle of the trial
of the case to return to their
several regiments and with them
take trains for Jacksonville. Sun
day last new and more inlport-
ant orders reached the camps of the regi-
ments and their men to prepare to take
transports instead of trains. to 90 to the
front instead Of the rear. This latter or
der seemed to please the boys much bet
ter, and the enthusiasm with which il was
received was quite a contrast with the
spirit of the men when 1t was learned that
they were TO break camps at Tampa to &c
to Jacksonville. They had no particular
aversion to going to Jacksonville; they
just simply did not want to move any
where until the move was made to The
front, and as may be expected when the
order came indicating that to the front
they would soon go, the boys congrat ulated
each other on the encouraging news.
Al this writing they all feel happy and
indulge an the hope that their orders vii
stick and not countermanded or changed
In the least, unless it is to shorten ur
their sojourn here. There is no definite
information here as to the number OF
troops that win go with the second army
of invasion, but the popular belief is that
the second will be equauy as large as the
first and fully well equipped The
great bulk of the troops that are to make
up Cen Coppngers army corps is still
10 come, either here or to some other
point I'm this section. The Tampa peopl,
bpp all of h,