The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-24
SECOND REGIMENT IN SHAPE.
THE GEORGIANs HUSTLED THEIR
CAMP INTO CONDITION.

eel city and Becoming Fast
Friends-FIOridn BOys Mustered in,
Including the RegimentaI Band.
Several Members Listed as Desert
ers--Nliss Clara Dnrton Arrives.
Tampa, Fla, May 2S-The Second Geor-
gia Regiment Of United States volunteers
have settled down to routine work in their
camp in De Soto Park Col oscar b.
Brown, the commander of the regiment,
assisted by Lieut.. Col. Garrard and Majs.
Award ana Kendrck, established the
camp in grove overlooking Husborough
bay, and the men are very well satisfied
with the location, since they have seen
the camps of the regular and the other
volunteer regiment camps in and around
Tampa. with the possible exception OF the
First United States Infantry, which is
camped on Picnic Island. at Port Tampa.
The Georgia Regiment arrived late Sun
day afternoon and had hard work to get
their tents up and everything arranged
for the night. BY breakfast time this
morning the boys had one of the neatest
looking camps yet seen here and by night
fan one would have imagined that they
had been in camp for a month. The train
ing in the state camp in Griffin gave them
considerable experience that was Of value
to them.
1t was the intention Of Col. Williams of
the First Florida volunteers 10 move his
regiment into De Soto Park, but as the
surgeons had not finished their eXamina-
ton Of the men Saturday night, he post
poned moving, and to-day found he was
too late, for the Georgia, Ohio ana Michi-
gan troops had taken up all the available
space. The chief objection to the park as
a camp ground is the lack of sufficient
room for drilling. II is almost Impossible
TO find space enough to dril single reg
iment
The Georgians and Floridians are neigh
bors, and they are fast becoming friends.
The boys from Savannah. Atlanta and
Jacksonville are well acquainted, and
through them all Of the other members of
the regiments are forming friendships that
Will prove lasting.
The Third, Fifth Ohio Regiments OF
United States volunteers are camped near
the Georgia regiment, but the boys from
ONO haXe not as good location for their
camp as the Georgians. They are OH
clear tract of land and consequently have
no shade anywhere around The men from
Ohio are very much dissatisfied with their
u
short time before marching orders come
and they can be moved 10 some other
place, even IL 1t Is TO the transport ships.
In the camp of the Florida boys there
was great rejoicing to-day for the tedious
examination of the men by the army sur
geons were completed and the regiment
was formally mustered into service as the
First Florida Regiment of United States
volunteers. The regimental band, formerly
the Fifth Battalion band of the Florida
stale troops, with headquarters at Tampa,
passed a splendid examination. only one
of the musicians was rejected a Cuban.
The band Is now encamped with the reg-
ment, and furnishes the music whenever
required and does little serenadiug when
ever permission is given. This band has
for a number of months given Saturday
evening concerts in the court house square,
and as long as the regiment remains in
Tampa the concerts viii continue.
All of the companies Of the Florida state
troops were ordered into a camp of in
structlon in this city, and the twelve COM
Danies needed to form the Florida regi-
ment Of volunteers were selected from the
twenty companies OF infantry While
waiting their turn to be examined by the
army surgeons, several of the members of
the companies decided that they did not
care to go TO Cuba. They applied for per-
mission to return to their respective homes,
and this being refused, they left the
camp without permission. They may not
be aware of the fact, but they are now
classed as deserters from the Florida state
troops. II is well for them that they left
the camp before the regiment was MUSTER
ed into service, for then they would be
deserters from the United States volunteer
army. and as war now exists, they would
be subject to the penalty Of deserters. As
IL is they will be severely punished by the
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The Twenty Michigan Regiment
Of United States Volunteers reached here
last Sunday night and Is now in camp.
This regiment is commanded by Lieut.. Col.
W.P. McGuer.n of Grand Rapids. II is full
ly equipped for the field and has with II
seven trained male nurses as aids 20 the
regimental surgeons The men are all fine
looking fellows and attracted much atten-
tion to-day as they walked about town
The rest of the North Carolina volunteers
that were booked for Tampa, II IL under
stood, will be stopped at Jacksonville, as
? the army officers have at last decided TO
comply with the request OF that city for
troops. number Of other regiments,
about 10000 men In all, that had previously
been ordered to Tampa, have been stopped
at Jacksonville to await orders. That city
made great promises of what IL would do
toward taking care of the troops and the
offer caught the officers
MISS cara barton, president or the Ked
Cross Society, arrived at Tampa to-day
on the Red Cross hospital ship State of
Texas She was accompanied by her
stan Of physicians and corps Of trained
nurses. The hospital ship has been at
Key West for several weeks, and the doc
tors and nurses have been practiciug dress
ing wounds on shpboard. They have ali
become quite proficient and when the
ship goes to Cuba with the feet of trans
ports. the Red Cross corps win be com
petent 10 attend to all who may be wound
"a should there be battle at the landing
place. Shortly after the arrival of the
Red Cross ship, Miss Barton came ashore.
and this afternoon she came up 10 Tampa
and is now stopping az the Tampa Bay
Hotel Miss Barton does not know when
she viii make the next move. She is now
waiting on the army, and when
he transports start for Cuba her
shin will accompany the fleet When the
army lands on Cuban soil the Red Cross
viii be with 1t, and Miss Barton VIII re-
main with the army. This noble woman
mas devoted her life to relieving suffering
and want. and now that her native coun-
trv is engaged IN war with a foreign
rover. she viii have an opportunity no
doubt. TO administer TO the soldiers OF the
TTnited States who may be wounded in
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