The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-01
CAMP OF TIE SECOND GEORGIA
ADJT. DAVIS FREEMAN RESUMES
HIS DUTIES.

the Third ReGiment-R egiment
May Go on a Forced March and In
duIge in Sham Battle-SOme-
thing Wrong in the Culinary De-
parment of Capt. Hopkins Com
pnny.
Tampa, Fla. June 3O-Adjt Davis Free
man of the Second Georgia reported for
E duty to-day and at once resumed his du-
ties, relieving Lieut.. Askew who has Of
ficiated in his absence.
Lieuts Blum of Company L and Dixie
Screven of Company NJ left tonight for
home on one weeks furlough each. Lieut..
Blum was accompanied by Mrs. Blum, who
has been here with her husband for two
weeks or more.
Alexander A. Lawrence, recently APP
pointed lieutenant in the Third Regiment
left for Atlanta tonight.
Upon request from division headquarters
for detail of one man for special duty at
Port Tampa, Col. Brown has detailed
Lieut.. Britton NJ Baxley of Company G.
Col. Brown is considering the matter of
giving his regiment a forced march some
day soon, spending the night in camp at
the end of the march and fighting a sham
battle early the following morning be-
fore returning 10 camp. Every pound of
useless baggage has been packed up and
the regiment is likely to move on the
shortest notice.
The only matters of interest going on IN
the regiment to-day are target practice
and vaccination The shooting Hom-
manded the attention Of about 100 men
Recently there has been some sicAn less
in Capt. Hopkins company, brought about
by possibly by something wrong in the
cooking. He is worried about st no little
and with the view of asecrtalning the
real cause will axe the matter in charge
himself and if possible will bring out the
cause of the trouble He does not knew
whether the food is cooked too much or
too little but he will know before lie
gets through The sickness is not by any
means serious enough TO cause the men
TO either take medicine or go to the hos
pital, but is of sufficient consequence to
be looked into He proposes changing the
bill of fare as often as possible 50 as 10
give variety to the food placed before his
men.
The dormant, inactive appearance of
Port Tampa, which has prevailed for two
weeks or more, has given place 10 scenes
of rush and hustle, incident to the depart
ure of another fleet of transports at an
early day.
There are now at Port Tampa six large
transports and when / was there We'd
nesday several pairs of field glasses We're
scanning the waters with the hope of see
ing curls of smoke looming up near the
entrance of the bay. The transports eX-
pected were some of those which were
with the first fleet several of which are
due here, and viii be part of the second
feet when it sails.
The ships at the port We're at the
wharves being loaded with supplies. They
CAFE (VtV the (titV o Macon
Hudson. Comanche, Unionist and Special
list. The Gate City and City of Macon,
il is claimed are about loaded so far as
supplies are concerned and viii top off
their cargoes with 500 soldiers each. the
First Illinois Regiment being assigned 10
them. To the Unionist and the Specialist
six batteries of artillery, ana a number
of siege guns have been assigned. togeth-
er with the artillery horses belonging to
these batteries.
The Hudson. it is said viii have about
800 men from the District of Columbia Reg
iment, and far no assignment of
troops has been made TO the ComanChe
The general idea of the authorities, so far
as l can learn, is to load all of the trans
ports with every pound of supplies that
they can carry and get everything ready
TO go 10 sea before the troops are order
ed down, so that when the soldiers reach
Port Tampa, they can be marched at once
on board the ships. When the last expe-
dition was being gotten in shape, some of
she troops were on the transports four or
five days before anchors were weighed.
This was caused by delaying the loading
of some of the ships until after the sol
diers had reached Port Tampa. This will
not occur again. The government pro-
poses to adopt a different method, the re-
suit of which cannot be but a more sue
cessful plan than the last When the
troops board the transports 1t win be to
leave Port Tampa, and there will be no
laying al anchor In the bay for two or
three days, waiting for the loading of
transports with supplies.
l am told that 1t is more than probable
that before the transports now returning
from Santiago can load up and go TO sea.
again, there will necessarily be some de-
lay in putting the ships in shape for their
cargoes. They will have to be thoroughly
fumigated, aud cleaned up When all of
this work has been done then they win
have to be loaded with supplies before
the troops will be ordered ON them. AS
the matter now stands it looks as if the
next large expedition will not leave here
for ten days yet. This estimate is based
on the fact that the ships to take the
a troops are not here vet, and that should
Nthey come in tomorrow or the day fol-
lowing it viii take fully ten days to get
them loaded. The department officials do
not know how to predict on the date of
the departure of the next fleet. The gun
boat MOrreQ Is swinging at anchor off
Port Tampa waiting on the transports,
so as to act part of the escort to the
next feet.
In the meantime all of this delay is very
annoying to the soldiers here, who seem
TO think that they viii never reach Cuba
in time to help capture Santiago They
want to get in the push. and have some
of the fighting 10 do when the city is
attacked in earnest Any news that
comes 10 them showing that there will
he dgl9W thair hrff
appointment. They have been here nearly
two months and think that il is now
about time they were going to the front.
Possibly hey would not be so impatient
did they think that there would be plenty
fighting after Santiagos walls have fall
len. All OF the troops about Tampa are
in fine condition and are anxious to get
10 Cuba where they can see war in its
final analysis. They want to try their
guns at live objects. instead of targets,