The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-21
SECONDS TRIP TO HUNTSVILLE.
slow Progress Because of the Length
of the Train.

of the Train.
En- Route to Huntsville, Ala, Aug. 10
The Second Georgia has at last left
Tampa and is now en- route for Hunts
vile, Ala.
The First battalion left Tampa last
night shortly before 10 o'clock by an Flor
ida Central and Peninsular special. The
train has since been making very slow
progress. This is due in part TO the fact
that the train Is very lone one, includ-
ing in all seventeen coaches.
Col Brown and staff and the band
accompanied the First Battalion, besides
the horses of the staff and considerable
baggage.
The boys Of the Second Georgia could
hardly believe that they were TO leave
Florida. They had been held back so
long and there had been so many VeXa-
tious delays that they were afraid they
would be required to remain in Florida all
summer. Even after the tents had been
struck and all the baggage had been pack
ed and carted away The men predicted
that their former experience at Palmetto
Beach would be repeated and that they
would be ordered into camp near Tampa
again.
Preparations for breaking camp began
shortly after breakfast Thursday morn
ing The men were required to pack all
surplus belongings in their hammocks for
shipment as baggage. One blanket and a
change of underwear was rolled in his
shelter tent by each man, the roll being
carried across the left shoulder with the
poncho rolled across the right. This with
haversack cauteen and fifty rounds OF
loaded cartridges for each, made quite a
load to carry. Why the loaded cartridges
were issued the men Is something they
are puZZling over yet
The striking of the tents was pic
turesque sight. At the bugle call to strike
tents the tent pins were loosened and the
tent poles seized and lifted. At the sec
ond call every tent was thrown forward
and the several hundred tents came down
together, like the sudden subsiding of an
immense foam capped wave. After the
tents and other baggage had been packed
and carted away there came the usual
long wait. AS at Palmetto Beach it was
an all day walt. The usual heavy after
noon shower came up and men and Off
GERS stood around under the trees shell
tering themselves as best they could with
only their ponchos for protection for
themselves and baggage.
Late ia the afternoon the march was
taken up for the Florida Central and Pen
insular Railroad depot in Ybor City. On
the way the Second passed the Fifth
Maryland already aboard cars at the
Plant System depot and also bound for
Huntsville Pleasant greetings were ex-
changed between the officers and men of
the two regiments with promises of an
early reunion at Huntsville.
The Second reached the depot just at
nightfall, but there was a delay of a
couple of hours before the cars were
ready. About $50 o'clock the First Bat
TALON boarded the train and an hour later
moved away from the depot, amid the
shouts of their friends of the Second and
Third battalons who were TO come later.
AT Highland, a small station about thir-
ty miles north of Ocala, the engine broke
| down and there was a delay of about an
| hour. At the present rate of progress the
regiment viii not reach Atlanta before
Saturday afternoon, il then, and Hunts
| VILE probably early Sunday morning.
The men are living ON travel rations,
| consisting of "Armour's fine roast beef"
commonly known as "old horse" canned
| tomatoes and hard tack. Good coffee has
| been issued twice a day and so long as
| this is kept up there will be no real kick
ing.
Except for the irksomeness of the slow
rate of travel the men had just about as
soon be aboard the train as at Huntsville,
as they anticipate considerable labor Will
be necessary to put the camp there in
shape. The cars are clean and we'll sup
Piled with ice water, and as each man has
d whole seat to himself the discomforts of
travelling are not great. AT o'clock the
| second section, bearing the Second Battal-
ion passed the first section at Highland.
The first followed Immediately after how
ever