The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-14
COL. WI, GRAYSON
SALUTED NEGRO
ONLY ONE WAS IN EVIDENCE.
CoRRECTS REPORT OF ALLEGED
"SNUB" BY GOV. TERRELL.


Citizens Voluntarily Praised Or
derby Conduct of Local Troops.
Thirty Miles in Twenty-seVen
Hours Was Marching Record.
Il only saw one negro soldier at Ma
nassas. He saluted me and l saluted
him in return. He was the only negro
1 saw"
This was the extent of the negro
question at the Manassas maneuvers,
so far as the Savannah troops were
concerned, according to the statement
of Lieut.. Col. Grayson.
There is one charge against Gov.
Terrell which I desire to most emphat-
ically deny, knowing as 1 do the full
particulars. That is the one relating
to an alleged snub or slight given Gov.
Terrell, or given by him to the Geor-
gia troops l was standing at Gaines
willie with him during the review when
a slight was claimed to have been
made. and was with him all during the
afternoon. All such reports as that
named are false and without founda-
ton.
Explains Arrest story.
II also desire to explain the story
about the arrest of some of the Sa-
vannah boys just before the train left
Thoroughfare. The boys were kept at
the station for some hours waiting for
a train. l was inside the station when
the trouble occurred
There were a number of soldiers,
not Georgians, about one of the suit
ler's stores when it was broken open.
Seeing the crowd some of the SaVan-
nah boys ran up. When the provost
guard rounded up the bunch, there
were a dozen or more Savannah men
caught.
Il explained the circumstances to
Gen. Bell and promised him to inves-
tigate the matter when ! got to Sa-
vannah if he would release them,
which he did. The company COM
manders have informed me that the
Savannah boys had nothing at all to
do with the breaking open of the store.
This information was informal of
course and I shall fully investigate the
case later.
Most Orderly Troops.
''As an evidence of the reputat ton
the boys achieved for peaceableness,
would state that at Orange, Va, and
at Florence. S. c., a delegation of citi-
zens called for the commanding officer,
and when l came out they compli-
mented the troops by saying that they
had watched the soldiers go by and
that the Savannah boys were the most
orderly who had passed through those
points. This Endorsement was wholly
voluntary and was totally unexpected
by me, though of course l knew that
the behavior of the boys had been gilt
edged.
There was no truth in the report
that the Second Battalion had any
differences with the negroes.
The Georgia regiment was con-
spicuously posted on each and every
occasion by Brig. Gen. Barrie, and dur
ing either of the engagements there
was not man captured nor a man
tagged for struggling. There was as
much struggling among the regulars
as in the Second Georgia.
Natives Liked Browns.
1.-THE Browns were considerably aided
by the sympathy of the people about
the camps who imagined that the
Browns were the Confederate side, and
the Blues the Federals. The name of
Brig. Gen. Grant had something to do
with this. though as a matter of fact
Gen. Grant is a Southern man.
However the opinion got abroad
II stood the Browns in good stead. On
one occasion a tree full of civilians
gave warning of the approach of a reg
iment of Blues and on more than one
occasion the Browns profited by in
formation from native scouts.
For realism, it would be hard tC
excel the maneuvers. In the line OF
h11nOrar IN, eli, -,
formed that the Blues had eaten meal
from mill trough at Sudley's mills
/ myself frequently saw Savannah
boys eating green corn shucked as
they ate it. They seemed to find the
corn adapted to their use.
Bathing Lost Art.
"As to the water, there was enough
to drink and cook with. but for bath
ing purposes there just wasn't any
Very, very few of us got a bath Will,
we were gone.
Il was sick for two days, but tn
time was utilized by making out tn
pay rolls.
'"The men were called up at all hour
of the night. The longest marching
was done by Maj. Conveys battalion
which covered thirty miles in twenty
seven hours. On one of the longes
marches the regiment left camp at
o'clock and marched to attack Gen
Grants left. At Wellington Ma.
Coney's battalion came into action
That night ! was i'm the Blue lines an
officers of the Connecticut Regimen
told me they had never seen a prettie
skirmish line than was thrown up b.
the second battalion.
After the skirmish the men marche
to Gainesville and bivouacked two mile
away. They had no tents. l cam
back at 1880 from the Blue lines an
at u o'clock was ordered to marc
through the darkness. At least on
officer waded in water up TO his waist
savannah BnttaIiOns Save Day.
ION another occasion the decisio
would have been given to the Blue
except that by a strange coincidenc
when they verified the alignment
was found that the first and secon
battalions of the Second Georgia wer
in supporting distance, and this CAV
the award TO the Browns.
Some of the boys got sore feet fror
the long marches but / believe nearl
all have recovered.
II was informed that the foreign at
taches marveled az the endurance q
the troops. and praise their move
ments The regular officers declare
that the maneuvers had shown tina
the state troops were not "A line q
reserves on paper but IN reality wer
a second line OF defence.
Absolutely no mention OF States
boro was made by the troops outsld
OF Georgia"
Adler's carpet opening rs announce
this morning Many hundred piece