The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-08
GO TO BE MUSTERED OUT.
BATTERY b RETURNS TO CAMP
NORTHERN TODAY.

Men VIII BE Mustered Out After
Some Days In Cnmp-Capt. Walker
and Lieut.. Armstrong Went Up
Last Night-Fciashty-One Men Leave
Savannah - Others VIII BE Taken
Up on the ROute-Each Private of
the Battery VIII Draw Something
Like SGO when Discharged.
The Chatham Artillery. Battery B. VIII
leave this morning at O'Clock for Griffin.
The artillerst will go up In a special train
by way of the Central. Eighty-one of
them will leave Savannah, and others will
be picked up on the way to Griffin. There
are 143 men in the battery now.
The command is to be mustered out at
Griffin. The mastering out officer Win be
Capt. Trip Of the regular service. The
men are very well pleased at the prospects
Of being soon discharged from the army.
Capt George p. Walker and Lieut..
George Armstrong left last night for Gri-
fin.
Lieut. Hugh NJ. Conner. Jr., has been
at Griffin ever since the battery left there
on furlough With him. as a guard for
the government property. he has Sergt.
Alien, Sergt. Stewart. Corpl. Lance and
ten men
Il is understood that the men who were
left in camp have been busy while their
comrades were away in getting everything
in such shape as 70 make the time short
that viii be necessary to be spent in camp
before being mustered out. They have
made out discharge papers and, it is said,
the mnster-out rolls. There as to be a
great deal of work about mastering out,
though. and IL is thought there will be
a plenty left for the men who have been
on furlough to do after they get back
to Griffin.
One of the things the men will have
to undergo will be a physical examina-
ton. This viii be conducted by a sur
geon of the army. and will be just as
rigid as that which was held as a pre-
lmnary to the men being accepted as
soldiers. The purpose of this examina-
ton before the men are mustered out Is
TO ascertain what diseases or disorders
they may have contracted while in the
army. It Is a sort of safeguard for the
government in the matter of pensions.
1t is looked upon as not unlikely that
there will be number of applications for
pensions 10 grow out of this war. and the
government is not DESTROYS of paying any
claims that are not altogether just BY
keeping the records of the physicians who
make The examinations on the men leav-
ing the service, 1t can be known to a
certainty whether any disease or physical
trouble complained of was caught while
in the army. 1t is said those men who
have been discharged from the service
upon their own application and who have
not been examined by a surgeon will not
be entitled to make application for a pen
sion. This win embrace number OF
cases that would appear to be meritorl-
GUS, as 1t is well known that there have
not been few men who have been dis
charged on account of affections that have
arisen from their army exposures.
The members of the Chatham Artillery
will have very neat sums when they are
discharged and paid off They will get
pay from Sept l until they are mustered
out, which will not be less than a week
from now, the soldiers think. The gem
eral opinion is that they will be kept at
Griffin for an even longer time. In add
ton to the pay, there is the money that
viii come to them for subsistence while
lflt3 were Oh lHtiouEl OF thirty DAYS. 10t6
il % cents a day. or $50 for the thirty
DAYS. This, added to the pay, which will
not be less than 1913 for the privates, and
more for the non-commissioned officers,
will make 5000. Those men who have
not been extravagant In their drafts upon
their clothing allowance will have at least
sos to their credit For the length of
time they have been in the service the
men could easily have that sum to their
credit and have dressed comfortably The
balance of their clothing accounts will,
therefore, run the figure up to $55 81.
Then there is the travel pay to be con-
sidered. This will be about $1050 from
Griffin to Savannah, the point of enlist
ment of the majority of the battery Travel
pay is computed upon the old basis used
In the army.
A man was considered as being able to
march 20 miles in a day and to need 30
cents a day TO subsist upon Therefore,
the shortest railroad route from the place
| where a man is discharged Is ascertained
and divided by 90 thus finding the number
of days It would take him TO march home
! These days are then multiplied by the daily
! pay of the grade the man has in the SER
vice and by the daily amount, 80 cents.
| he receives for subsistence. Thus, when
these products are added, the travel pay
| is found
The travel pay Of the artilleryman added
to the money he wiz receive on the other
! counts. will bring him in S66. This will be
! a very neat sum FOR the men to have on
| getting out of the service. If they have
! been thrifty and not had to borrow, 1t is
! probably as much as the most of them
! could have saved during five months spent
! IN civil instead of military life.
! The men meet this morning at the armory
at $50 O'Clock. They leave under com
mand of First Sergeant Turpin Bacon
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