The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-28
RECRUITS BECOMING SCARCE.
CAPT. T.. f. GLEASON SECURED
NEARLY 100 FOR HIS BATTALION.

Many of Them, However, Came From
Thinks Savannah Has About Been
Exhausted as "A Recruiting Center.
Left Last Night to Return to
ELECTROMAGNETIC Office
for Capt. KOIshorn's Company to
BE Opened TO-day-Lieut. Palmer
Working for the Chathams.
| Capt. P. f. Gleason of Company L, First
Georgia Regiment United States Volun-
teers, better known as the Irish Jasper
Greens, closed his recruiting office here yes
! terday, and left the city last night on his
way back TO Chickamauga. Sergt. c. p.
II. Murphy, Of the Greens; Privates N.
Bailey, Of the Cadets, and r. Douglass, of
the Blues, together with a couple of re-
cruits, accompanied him.
Capt. Gleason received a telegram from
Col. Lawton yesterday telling him to wind
| UP his affairs as soon as possible and re
turn 10 the command as it has been order
ed to be ready for an eXpeditlonary move
ment at once. The telegram did not say
just what would be done with the regiment,
but it may be that it will be selected as
one of those TO go to Tampa, Maj. Gen.
Brooke having been directed to send sew
eral thousand men there.
| Capt. Gleason, however, win not go di-
rect TO Chickamauga. Sergt. L. Julian OF
| Company +, the Macon Volunteers, of the
same battalion, has been doing some re-
| cruitng in Macon, and there are several
men there to be sent TO Chickamauga.
! There has also been some recruiting at
| Eatonton and Milledgeville for the First
| Georgia. Capt Gleason will visit both of
! these places, and make arrangements to
| send the recruits on 10 Chickamauga, be-
! fore going himself. This, however, will re-
quire Only day or two.
Capt. Gleason needed 105 men for his bat
TALON when ne came down here in search
! of recruits. He has already sent sixty.
eight men TO camp and at MilledgeyilIe,
| Macon and Eatonton expects to get tWen-
| ty-tive on thirty more, which will come
pretty near filing up the ranks of the
| battalion
The ranks of the Irish Jasper Greens
were filed up to LOG men before the re-
| cruiting office in Savannah had been open
| ed for two days. The men were sent
| off 10 Chickamauga as they were secured,
and most of them are now duly enlisted
and wearing Uncle Sans uniforms
| The Irish Jasper Greens now have
1
diets have 81 men, the Republican Blues
! SO and the Macon Volunteers 80. 1t will;
| take about forty-one more men to fill all
| the companies of this battalion up 10 106
men each. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
| the twenty-five or thirty to be secured at
! the points named will not leave the bat
! talon far short of full ranks.
| Capt. Gleason said he had no idea what
would be done with the regiment. He
/ judges from the telegram he received yes
| terday that it will soon be ordered 10
move within a very short time, and he
was Fastening to get things in shape to
| return. He rather thinks the regiment will
be ordered to Tampa, but where it will
be sent from there he has no idea.
As a recruiting point, Capt. Gleason
| thinks Savannah has been pretty web ex-
| hausted, and experience win in all prob
ability bear out his views on this line. Il
did not take him long to get the men
needed for the Irish Jasper Greens, bur
considerable time was required to get
men for the other companies and good
| bit of sklrmlshing had to be done. The
| sixty eight men sent to Chickamauga did
not all go from Savannah though the
| majority of them were secured here Capt
Gleason thinks that companies coming
here to recruit now will find considera BILE
difficulty.
! Nevertheless, recruiting for the company
for the Third Georgia Regiment, United
States Volunteers, which will be COM
manded by Capt. Henry Kolshorn, will
begin to-day. A recriting Office will be
| opened in the Office of Mr.. w r. Lealxen,
who will go as second lieutenant with
| Capt. kolshorn's company. Mr.. Leaken's
office is at No. IS Bryan street, east. up
stairs United States flag will be hung
out, and all those DESTROYS of going with
| Capt. Kolshorn's company are invited to
come lp and put down their names. This
| Office will be open from to II O'Clock
| every morning. and from to 6 O'clock
| every afternoon. Another recruiting Of
flee will be opened for the same company
at the First Regimental Armory from 70
| 10 O'Clock at night
Nothing has yet been heard as to when
| Capt. II. M. Conner, Jr., will come to Sa-
vannah TO begin recruiting for his compa-
| ny. His second lieutenant, Mr.. A. A. Law
renee, who is now with the Guards at
Tampa, has not secured his discharge yet
| though he is expected here shortly.
| Lieut.. Armin B. Palmer of the Chatham
| Artillery is taking In recruits for that
| command right along and so far has Sc
| cured five men who will be sent on to join
the Chathams at Chickamauga. The
| Galatians are in need of something like
! forty or fifty men, and they want 10 ger
them as quickly as possible.
Lieut.. w. r. Cole of the heavy artillery
battery az Tybee is still in search of re-
cruits for that command. He has secured
| three men so far, who have been muster
ed In and are now regularly at work with
the battery. He considers that he has
done pretty well here under the circum-
| stances
Altogether it looks as if Savannah has
been pretty well exhausted of volunteers
unless the danger becomes greater than
at present appears. The chances are
that IL will take a considerably longer
time to get the Third Georgia Regiment in
shape than was the case with the other
two, but those interested in it are going
right TO work with as much energy as
they can put into il, and they believe they
will have the regiment ready in due sea-
son.
TO RECRUIT FOR THIRD GEORGIA.