The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
BUSINESS CALLS THEM HOME.
SECOND GEORGIA OFFICERS WANT
TO LEAVE THE SERVICE.

Northumberland His Office and
His Rank as First Lieutenant-Win
Resume His Law Business-Lieut.
Cheatham Wilson Has Resigned
and II Is Said Lieut.. w. c. Hart
ridge Has AIsO-PrOspect of Early
mastering Ont VIII Probably Pre-
vent Further ResignatiOns-Medal
of Lieut.. Wilson and Capt. Austin
Attract Attention at Camp.
Aait. Davis Freeman of the Second
Georgia Regiment is expected from Hunts
vile to-day. He has resigned his commits
sion. and will take up his law practice
with his firm Messrs. Denmark, Adams
& Freeman, at once.
Adjt. Freeman, who had the rank Of
first lieutenant, made an excellent officer,
and in his position as adjutant he was all
that could have been desired. He was APP
pointed adjutant of the regiment by the
Governor just before it went into the ser
vice. Lieut. Freeman had been adjutant
of the battalion of savannah Volunteer
Guards for several years, and was entirely
familiar with the duties of the office of
reeimentaI adjutant so far as they re-
lated to the formality Of guard mounting
and field movements. The Office work,
with his natural ability and aptitude, he
mastered at once.
Who Lieut.. Freeman's successor in the
regiment will be has not been learned. As
the most recent report has it that the
command will be one of those to be mus
tered out of the service, it is probable that
a regular appointment win not be made,
but that some first lieutenant of the line
will be selected by Col. Brown TO fill the
position.
Lieut. Freeman is one of the two Savan-
nah officers of the regiment who are
known TO have resigned. Lieut.. F. Cheat
ham Wilson of Company K has also sent
in his resignation, but it has not yet been
acted upon. Now that all probability that
the Second will be needed for any fight
ing has apparently passed, Lieut.. Will
son is naturally DESTROYS of getting back
to his large dental practice. During the
four months of his service he has been
one Of the most popular officers, and the
officers and men of the Savannah battal-
son will greatly regret seeing him leave.
When il looked as if the Second was sure
TO get to Cuba or Porto Rico and have
crack at the Spaniards, Lieut.. Wilson used
to say that he wanted 10 get 264 of them,
the number of American sailors who Went
down in the Maine Those who know his
wonderful record with a rife would not
have been surprised If he had bowled over
that many if he had just gotten the
chance.
One of the prettiest arms ever seen was
the light rifle Lieut. Wilson purchased
from the Winchester people about the
time the regiment was ordered TO Tampa,
there to take transports for Cuba. Ii was
made upon the pattern of the Krag-Jor-
gensen rifle, or the Georgia Crackerson,
as some wit of the regiment dubbed the
new guns of the regulars, and had the
same magazine capacity and fired the
same ammunition. Once or twice on
formal occasions for dress parade by the
regiment, Lieut.. Wilson wore the medals
he has won in many rifle contests, and
their number and beauty were the wonder
and admiration of all. Capt. w G. Austin
of Company NJ followed a close second on
these occasions, and many comments from
the ladies could be heard upon the ap-
pearance of the officers, who were almost
covered by the many decorations they
wore.
1t is said Second Lieutenant Walter
Hartridge of Company has also sent In
his resignation. No confirmation of this
report can be secured here, but it is known
MIN to give up his commission, now
that the war is over. Were it not for
the early prospect of the regiment being
mustered out of the service, it is not i'm
probable that many of the officers would
resign. Business interests are demanding
their attention, and it would be at con-
siderable loss to themselves that some
of them would remain In the service I'M
Ill the command might eventually be mus
tered out.
No provision is made for officers Of the
volunteer forces being retained in the reg
ular army, and there would be but small
incentive for many of them with large
business interests in civil life to stay with
their regiments for a few months at
salary that would not recompense them
for what they might lose by being away
from their homes. One of the officers OF
the Second Georgia, who has friend and
correspondent in the person of one of the
clerks of the war department at the capt.
tai, said, not long since, that he had writ
ten him that there were more than 5000
applications from officers of the volunteer
service on file with the secretary. These
applicants want 10 get in the regular
army, as the taste of the life they have
gotten with the volunteers has given them
q liking for it,
A personal canvass of she Savannah Off
GERS of the Second Georgia would show
only two who would care to remain in
tne regular service with the rank they
at present hold. All the others have been
anxious for some time to get back 20
their homes and business and several of
them have only been deferred from re-
signing by the recollection of their men
having enlisted with the understanding
that they would be under the officers with
whom they entered the service. Particu-
larry is this true of the captains Their
names were on the enlistment rolls of their
companies as the officers under whose COM
mand their men went into the army and
under whom they desired to remain I'M
til they might be discharged
If no further change occurs in the in
tention of the war department as at pres
ent made known regarding the musterine
out of the Georgia regiments it is moi
unlikely that all the members of the First
and Second will soon be at their homes
on furloughs Of thirty days. After the
expiration of these furloughs the men must
r.La.