The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-08
CAMP OF THE SECOND GEORGIA
REGIMENT BELIEVED TO BE BOOK
ED FOR CUBA.

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waIk-JncIe sam Now Feeding the
Soldier ROys satisfactorily.
Tampa. Fla. July 7.-Lieuts. Bacon and
screven have returned for duty and com
manded their companies in the drill and
dress parade which followed this after
noon.
This morning the paymaster made his
appearance at the Second Georgia camps
and at once commenced paying off the
men. The last one was handed the amount
due him by O'Clock this afternoon, and
as all of the men drew "A fun months pay,
shey are feeling quite happy tonight
The regimental march, which was billed
TO have occurred to-day, vas postponed,
owing 10 the announcement that the pay
master would visit the camp.
Tomorrow the brigade. consisting Of the
Second Georgia, the Fifth Ohio and the
Sixty-ninth New York, commanded by
Gen Lincoln, will be marched distance
of six miles, when the day Will be devoted
90 movements in the woods and in the
evening the regiment will return 10 their
reservations.
Since the the recruiting details were
sent about seventy-1ve recruits have
been secured and sent TO the regiment To- |
day information was received that about !
twenty-five more had been secured and
that they were on their way here.
The regimental flags have not arrived
yet. They We're sent by espress and
have not been reported as arrived up to a
late hour this afternoon.
William Carter, who accidentally caus
ri he of
of the Fifth Maryland Regiment. has been
sentenced 10 one years imprisonment at (
Fort Thomas, Ky, and the forfeiture of !
all pay due him, together with dishon- /
orable discharge. He viii leave to-mor-
row.
William Williams, a 'colored sergeant of !
Troop NJ, Ninth Cavalry. died to-day of
typhoid fever
Two Red Cross nurses have been detail |
ed to care for the sick soldiers on Picnic |
Island, who are suffering from typhoid |
fever.
A large party Of the Red Cross nurses
left tonight for Key West.
Any one who has an idea that
your Uncle Sam does not give
his soldiers all that they can eat in /
the way of army fare. would have had /
such thoughts dispelled from his head !
had he been here this morning and seen |
train of twenty-three car loads of pork |
and beans, being rushed through to Port |
and ammunition are being accumulated /
upon the wharVes to be loaded upon |
transports as soon as they arrive In this |
train load of stuff the East and West |
were brought closely together though the |
contents of the packages packed in the /
cars. There was the pork of the West |
packed in cans with the beans of the 1
East, Chicago and Boston all mixed up /
together. each doing its part in one gem |
eral effort 10 put muscle into the frames |
of the American soldier. The contents of |
these cars to a great extent constitute |
what is known as travel rations as the |
product is cooked before being packed, |
and are considered a good healthful diet |
10 be slowed away under a soldiers shirt !
either cold or hot. When possible the
cans are put in hot water and the con-
tents warmed up before they are eaten
but on forced marches. or in travelling
from one point to another, where hot wa
ter can't be secured, the men open the
cans and devour them ravenously. never
stopping to consider that they would go
better when they warm. The men are
very fond of them and your Uncle Sam
seems to be aware of this fact, as he
keeps large stock of them constantly on
hand. The soldier boys continue TO do
patrol duty here, and every night details
are sent out from the camps to patrol
the streets and guard warehouses and
stores not only at Tampa, but at Tampa
city and Port Tampa At the latter place
piled up upon the wharves, can be seen a
great pile of cases of ammunition for
small arms marked Second Georgia %
This ammunition is there to be placed on
transports as soon as they arrive, and they
are expected hourly, as official infortna
lion has reached here that the TRANSPORTS
have already left Cuba for Port Tampa.
now the fact that no definite informal
tion can be had here as TO when the Geor-
gia troops are going to be sent away or
where they are going 10, when they do go
makes the discovery of this large pile of
ammunition banked up on the wharves
at Port Tampa, quite suggestive to saw
the least. II certainly points very clearly
that the Second Georgia viii be among
the next troops 10 leave here and that
when the command leaves it will not be
on its way 10 Savannah, but in the direc-
ton OF Cuba. Ammunition marked Sec
ond Georgia" would not be sent to Port
Tampa and the troops for which this am
muniiion is intended either held here or
sent to some other point This * the yvav
the matter looks here. Some DAYS ago
there was well-founded rumor in cireu-
lation here, TO the effect that Gen Kline's
division, to which the Second Georgia is
attached, was about TO be removed TO Sa-
Hannah, to go aboard transports from New
YORK, which Were headed south. This
report came from a reliable source and
was soon followed by an order to the reg
mental commanders of the division com
manded by Gen. Kline to get ready 20
move at moments notice. Preparations
were at once made to break tents and
leave. but about the time when this pre-
paratory work was concluded the news
was flashed into Tampa that the Spanish
feet had been destroyed by Sampson. Then
the talk of sending the troops TO Savan-
nah with lightning speed faded from
view, and it is now said that the order re-
ferred 10 has been rescinded. To-day the
troops are occupying their quarters as us
ual going through their daily routine work
and wondering where they are at. as none
OF them seem to know, and few OF them
are bold enough to even make sugges-
ton as to the future movements of the sol
diers encamped here. With all this I'M
certainly, there is however
strong ground for the belief that the
stay of the troops here viii depend only
he ffr11c a.-- Al