The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-23

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shelter tents Will be allowed TO be carried
| along. a shelter tent will cover two men,
ana as the tent is in two pieces of canvas
the men who are to sleep together take a
| half of the tent each
| The order issued by Mai. Gen. Coppinger
| TO the generals commanding the divisions
| forming the Fourth Corps was as follows:
! 'Sir-Iu compliance with letter of in
! structions from the major general com
| manding the army, of this date, you will
J cause your division to be fully equipped
| with twenty days travel ratons and 800
| rounds of ammunition to the man, and TO
| be prepared for immediate embarkation on
! transports as soon as they arrive at Port
! Tampa. One hundred four-mule wagons
will accompany the command.
| Sixty days complete ratons for 5000
men have been ordered to be prepared and
put on transports Immediately upon their
| arrival at Port Tampa
Since these instructions were issued the
| government wagons have been hard at
work hauling supplies to the different
| camps in and about Tampa. Pack mules
| by the hundreds are also doing effective
service and in this way supplies are be-
Ing rapidly delivered in large quantities
wherever needed The supplies above re-
| ferred 70 are independent of those to be
drawn for the use of the men preparatory
TO their boarding the transports These
are to be drawn on a basis of five days
rations and to be repeated as the neces-
! sity occurs. Regimental commanders have
been ordered to report the number of men
in each of their several commands, who
are in condition to do effective service, and
transportation for them will be provided
and assignments made to the transports
which are to take them to the front. Of
| ficers' horses win be provided for on the
Transports and all the sick troops will be
/ left bpbin6 IN he e0t 10 ha
pital at Mcpherson barracks, near At
| lanta, there to remain until they have re-
covered from their sickness. They will
| then be sent to their commands or trans
ferred to other regiments. A long and
wel-ftted up hospital train reached Tam
pa last Sunday, and to-day the train pulled
out for Mcpherson, with about 100 sick
| soldiers. This is considered a very small
! percentage of sick people for the number
of troops here, who seem to enjoy remark
ably good health, considering the excess
! sivey warm weather prevailing here and
| to the fact that none of the men have been
in Tampa long enough to become accI-
| mated.
Within the past week or ten days cool
| and refreshing showers have fallen which
| has had the effect of cooling off the at
mosphere and rendering il less oppressive.
| All of the camps are well drained by ,iitcn-
| es dug by the soldiers, and these bitches
! carry the water away from the encamp-
| ments, leaving the soldiers in possession
| of dry sleeping quarters. The Second Geor-
! gia, on account of its being considered enc
| of the very best regiments here, is being
| called upon every day and night to do
| very large amount of patrol and guard
! duty in every section of the city Besides
doing a considerable amount of police duty
the details from this regiment have the
| guarding of the government storehouses,
| where immense quantities of supplies of
| character Stored These
are away from camp for a period of TWEEN
| ty-four hours, and while on duty dive On
| cooked or travel rations brought with
| them. The downtown headquarters of
the patrol detachm is in the hall of
| the Salvation Army, the walls of which are
decorated with cards hung up at approprl-
| ate distances, bearing quotations from the
| Bible, and suggestions to readers the way
in which they should live, so as to make
them Christians and believers in the word.
The hall is amply supplied with chairs
and benches, and on which some of them
sleep, while not on duty, while others
| choose the floor, sleeping on beds made OF
their blankets and ponchos. Some of the
men told me last evening that the Sisters
of Mercy had kindly sent them good sup
pers with plenty of hot coffee, and they
we're living in elegant style and had 10
kicks coming. The boys, while not n
duty Keeling off an hour two of
sleep amuse themselves by telling jokes
on each other, all OF which are generally
greeted with bursts of laughter A few of
the best 1 caught up in a running con-
versation, and here they are: One sentinel
on duty called to the guard on the line
near him, known as Number
seven" and asked, why don't you call
severn?
The response that followed, and it came
quickly, was mot on your life, number
six. l am too old crap player to call
seven" Another was that a sentinel on
guard duty at night at the camps saw a
man approaching the line and bawled out
"Who comes there?' An answer came
"The officer of the day." to which the
sentinel retorted well, If the officer of
the night catches you out he will give you
h--l, so you, had better hunt cover" An
other sentinel, some weeks since, called
out. "Officer of the guard, post No. blank,
airs WE'LL" and received a response from
the next sentinel on the line "Oficer of the
, guard, post No. blank ans sick And so
on. the boys tell jokes ON eaca other, all
of which are received in the best of hui
NOR. They give and take, as the case
may be- and a happier or more contented
. regiment can not be found in the field to-
day. Georgia has certainly a fine regi-
ment in the Second, and the men in it re-
, fleet credit on the state that they repre-
sent.
CAMP AT JACKSONVILLE IDEAL.