The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-17
rlpsT GEORGIA BOYS ELAfED.
,.curNr FEELS SURE IT WILL GO
TO PORTO RICO.

49,, MoIxfng Excellent Records
III. Rifle RanGe-Sergt. Nelson
,Ibnuy Carrying Watch
...,.,.b His Father Carried All
,.,..o,eh the Last War-NOne of
Rattery Boys Involved in
-. folding Up of a Train.
--.,.,ooga. Tenn, July 16.-The First
o-,rqie boys received the newo OF the
-s,5t... immediate expedition of the first
- Gen. Brooke commanding, to
-, Rico with intense enthusiasm, and
,b,ut all day copyTatulating them
W w.. mat the First Georgia is in the
80 -,rus. and that it will soon be at
,.. 'front.' where there is fight.
-, the excellent records many of the
making at the rifle range, 1t
I'D evidently be death to the Spaniards
.o,,s WITHIN shooting distance Of the
T7,-st,s rifles. They are proving themselves
- sbots and no mistake. The entire
rsgiment is averaging at least one bulls
ave for every four shots.
esrgt wall. CorpL Jones and Private
oo,ocap. Company E, made % out of
poss5ble %.
The record of Company I is: Ward, %;
c,,lverbouse. %; Willard, McWilliams and
Corol Alexander, %; Rodgers and Prone,
81 out Of possible 40.
romnauv z made a splendid record col
,.ctivslv. Corpl Jones made 80 out of 40.
privstez Lamar and helms made So each,
"Top" Sergeant J. NJ. Nelson, Company
= Of Albany, Is carrying a gold watch
which his father Col Thomas NJ. Nelson,
carried all through the late war until he
fell at Tfpelo, Miss, just two months be-
fore the close of the strife. Sergt. Mel
son also possesses his fathers sword, his
ereat-erandfather having carried it
through the revolutionary war.
Privates Sanford, Beasley and Bell,
Company A, are in the hospital.
Private John T. Brown, Company G, Is
once more in the hospital.
Company HIS non-commissioned officers
to-day received their warrants.
Private John Adams, Company I, is sick
with cholera morbus.
Lieut. Thomas Company I, has report
ed for duty, having been at Macon con-
fined by sickness.
Capt Stevens, Company I, is fast recov-
erng from his illness and is expected here
Wednesday.
Prvates Baldwin, Lyons and Ward
Company D, are back from the hospital
Company D has not single man sick.
Sergt. Lowenthal spent to-day in Chat
tanOoga.
Lieut.. Grayson Company D, visited
Chattanooga to-day.
Sergt. j. B. Lindman Company X is
serving the field officers as stenographer.
John Jordan Brooks, Jr., Company K, is
detailed as special clerk to the adjutant.
Webb Braunon and Chisholm, Company
K, have just served thirty-six hours on an
outpost.
The boys Of Battery B, Georgia Artil-
lery, are greatly exercised over the report
thai some of their members were recently
arrested by provost guard, charged with
holding up a train 10 the park as printed
in these columns. 1t transpires to-day that
it was not members of a Georgia battery
at all, but members of an infantry regi-
ment who represented themselves as Geor-
gans in oroer to shield themselves. This
VIII be grateful news to the friends of the
boys al home.
Bugler Il. R. Walker was sent to the
division hospital to-day suffering with
measles.
Private Fred Dreese left for home last
night to attend the funeral of his brother,
VINO died in Savannah yesterday.
-four recruits arrived for the battery to-
Gay, leaving only a few men needed for
The tuli complement
Rubber poncnos and a fun supply of
SHOES for the battery were received to-
day
All the battery needs now is its guns
ana the men are beginning to think they
VIII not get these. The battery has its
nofses but no guns. Other batteries have
: lhelr guns but no horses, and naturally
tnefe Is a suspicion that there has been
Dad management somewhere.
Private A. J. Watts has been discharged
iof physical disability and has gone to his
home al Griffin
Serst Wakeman, Corpl. Shearhouse
ana Fnvates George and DeFour, who
nave been in the hospital suffering from
haIa[al fever are convalescent and Will
De out IN few days