The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-27
MAY HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE.
WHO WISH THEY
HAD ENLISTED THE FIRST TIME.

About l,SOO or AsOOO more fotuh-
teers From GeOrgia-A1any Think
savannah Has Furnished Her Full
sbare-COI. Deveaux's Command
B Directed to Turn 100 Sprin gfieId
Rifles over to Mai. t. 5. WylIy.
Arms and Equipments to BE
EounIized-The Rifles Were Re-
Gently Given the COIOred Troops.
II looks now as If all those who have
been saying that they wished they had
gone into the army with the volunteer
4 ,roops viii have an opportunity now to see
their wishes fulfilled.
After the various commands left Savan-
nah there were many left behind who
seemed now and then to bemoan their fate
that they did not have an opportunity Of
going. TOO. The chance may come sooner
tb3n they expected. If the frequency with
which this remark has been made is taken
Il into consideration, the chances are that
4 Savannah could easily furnish another bat
TALON. should all those who have expressed
the wish make it good.
Just what win be done, however is as
n vet matter of doubt. 1t Is said the
n President has called for 1900 more vOlun-
8 means that Georgia will be called on for
something like 1900 or 1900 more troops
q for the volunteer army. If Savannah
81 should keep up her former record she
would have to furnish something like 90
troops on this call.
The chances are, however, that nothina
81 of this kind viii be done. Circumstances
81 have changed since the 700 volunteers
81 from Savannah went away to join the
"A United States army. There would be no
more volunteering of the entire Guards
III battalion nor of whole companies from
III the First Regiment, These commands
# have done their duty, as has the Chatham
81 Artillery, and they could not be called
upon again to furnish like numbers.
In the next place 1t is the feeling of
many here that Savannah has already fur
nished her share of the volunteer troops
q and that she could hardly be expected 10
repeat what was done on the first call.
FL That is the feeling of many of the mill
II tary men here, and they do not believe
81 that any such efforts win be made here
as was the case on the first call.
A third consideration is the need of vol
unteers at home. They are wanted here
q 10 respond to any calls that may be made
upon them, and calls may be made, as
81 Maj. T. S. Wylly stated to the Guards the
81 other night on very short notice.
There are no doubt many in the city,
81 however, who would tender their services
81 as volunteers on the second call for
troops. There is quite a number of COM
mlssioned officers here who rendered their
services on the first call, but there was
no place for them In either of the regl-
ments organized in Georgia, so they re-
manned al home. When the opportunity
II presents itself no doubt some of these Of
n fcers would be glad to take charge Of
commands, even though they could not
III go with their own organizations, which
are already in the field
If Georgia is called on for any cavalry,
however, a first-class regiment could un-
81 doubtedly be furnished almost wholly from
this section of the state. Some of the
members of the First Cavalry Regiment
81 are rather disappointed that their COM
nand Was not called on at first, and there
are many of them who would no doubt
be glad of an opportunity TO get In the
field.
In the meanwhile, the strengthening of
the volunteer forces at home is steadily
going on. officers are being put in charge
of all the companies and commands which
We're left without them, and arrangements
are being put through TO make the volun-
n teer troops at home equally as effective
as they were before the draft was made
on them.
In line with these plans orders have just
81 been issued from the adjutant general S
office for the purpose of equalzing the
the Georgia volunteers. The first section
of this order directs Lieut. Col. j. II. De-
VeauX, commanding the First Battalion
Infantry, Georgia Volunteers, colored, to
invoice to Maj. f. S. Wylly, commanding
the First Battalion Infantry, Georgia Vol
unteers 40 rifles and 12O cartridge belts.
Maj. WILLY is directed to divide the guns
thus received pro rata between his COM
mand the First Regiment Infantry in COM
mand of Maj. Edward Karow. This will
M place about $50 rifles in the hands of the
Guards and the First Regiment, including
those which they retained when the volun-
teer troops left
The colored troops In Savannah recent
ly received 80 Springfield rifles from the
state and the number they are directed
70 turn over to Maj. Wylly is just one
half of that. Col. Deveaux naturally did
not enjoy having TO give up the rifles, be-
cause they were recently given to his
command, and it is the first time in some
years that the state has done anything
Tor the colored troops here. He under
stood the situation, however, and made no
objection 1t is considered that there is
no doubt that these arms will be restor-
ca as soon as the status of the state troops
IS restored to its normal condition.
Inc orders applied to every eolored COM
Hahd m the state. The volunteers who
went from the white troops carried many
Of CheIr rifles with them, and the troops
lett behind were somewhat short on arms.
CoIofed volunteers in other parts of the
state have been similarly directed to turn
over a portion of their arms to white
b commands for the same reasons, that the
arms and equipments may be more nearly
All equaAzed among the state volunteer
forces
IL may be that in the second call for
volunteers the colored troops will have a
cHance. Nothing has been said about the
matter as yet and few details of the
RESIDENTS plans for the second lot of
volunteers have been published. 1t is ex-
M Pected that something definite will be
heard from it within a short time.