The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-24
TO EAT OYSTERS AT TYBEE.
THIRD GEORGIA REGIMENT GOES
TO THE ISLAND TODAY.

The Officers VIII Entertain the Men
With an oyster Roast ON the
Beach-NOveI Experience for the
Men From the InteriOr-First GeOr-
gia Regiment To Visit the Island
Since the Civil War--A Day of Eat
ing and Good Cheer by the Ocean.
The Third Georgia Regiment viii invade
Tybee Island this morning. and will spend
several hours on the beach enjoying the
delights of a mammoth oyster roast. To
many of the men 1t viii be the first op-
portunity ever had to see the ocean, let
alone destroy the luscious bivalve fresh
from its briny home and within sound and
sight of The waves.
The oyster roast is rendered the men by
the officers of the regiment 1t is prob
ably the last social function" the regi-
ment will have a chance to unite in on
American soil Almost any day It is ex-
pecting orders to move 10 Cuba. The jolli-
fication on the beach will tend to draw
the men still closer together, TO give a
SAVIOR of Christmas to the season that in
camp partakes so little of the joyous holl-
day period of the home circle, and will
mark the day as one, of pleasant memories
for ALL
The regiment will leave camp shortly
before s O'clock and march 10 the depot
II is thought there viii be somewhat less
than 1000 who will go to the island The
regular morning train, leaving the city at
O'clock city time, Will be used, enough
additional coaches being put on TO ac-
commodate the soldiers While this may
ordinarily this will not be Objectionable
to the mass of the Georgans, who will
enjoy their first sight of the salt marshes
and creeks, and an occasional glimpse of
the river and ocean on the way down.
Coming back there will be special train
for them, leaving between 4 and o clock.
There IS large crowd to be brought up
from Tybee regularly on Saturday after
noon, and a special is necessary to ac-
commodate the soldiers. The day will be
passed entirely without formalty. Ii VIII
be an occasion where the only rule of life
Will be to ''eat, drink and be merry" 1t
will be a merry crowd there will be an
abundance TO eat and there viii be suf-
ficieut provision to guard against thirst
where all water is salty
The trip to the seashore was looked for
ward to yesterday with the greatest of
interest by the men. 1t was the main
topic of talk In camp and on the street.
Some of the men owned up that they
had never eaten an oyster, while those
who had only seen the canned article were
quite numerous. Some had run across a
stray specimen at church suppers, and a
few had been taken in at genuine oyster
barbecues at Atlanta. The soldier, though,
who had had the pleasure of eating an
oyster fresh from it's bed, or with an APP
petite whetted by ocean breezes, is hardly
numerous enough in any company to be
noticeable. IL is an incursion into an I'M
known country change of diet that has
the added merit of unquestionable novelty.
No more pleasant excursion than this
could have been arranged.
This will be the first regiment of Geor-
gia soldiers that has visited Tybee in
many years. Occasional companies have
been there in recent years, the Savannah
Cadets at one time going into camp on
the island for a week or more. There
have been companies of troops from
other states located at the Notifications
since the war broke out and there is still
a considerable force of artllerymen at
lUdL point.
1t was in the winter of 1861 that the
last regiment of Georgia troops prior TO
this one, left the island. The Twenty
sixth Georgia Regiment of Volunteers, a
battalion of the First Regiment of Georgia
Volunteers, and light battery under the
command of Col. c. C. Wilson of the
Twenty-sixth, at that time evacuated
Tybee and ii was occupied by the United
States forces. Batteries were built by the
latter and in April, 1852, Fort Pulaski was
bombarded and captured. This visit to-
day of the Third Georgia will be an his
torical event for the island. Col. Berner
and Maj. Cohen, who have been largely
instrumental in the preliminary arrange
ments, with all the other officers, viii give
the regiment an outing that will be full
of enjoyment, and which win be as unique
as it will be appreciated by all who take
the trip