The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-07-11

Inc camp CO SGlS ABOUT l2O acres
Of land and the adjoining country IS
owned and occupied by happy, pros
porous farmers, w. H. King and Rich
ard Hill.
Company G.. Unattached.
In the early 1897 Robert S. Settles,
then a sexton at Christ Church in
Nashville, Tenn, conceived the idea
of forming his boy companions into
a military company. Prof. Richard
Hill, in charge of music in the public
schools of Nashville, then president
of the Board of Directors of the Ne
gro Department of the Tennessee Cen
tennial Exposition, assisted by Rev.
w. H. Key, a local preacher in the
A. NJ, E. church and a substantial citi-
zen, made application and secured
charter for a military company. This
company elected Robert S. Settles
captain He according made the pre-
liminary arrangements.
In 1904 First Lieutenant Henry H.
Bowman, of the company was elected
captain and the first encampment was
held in 1905. With the exception of
1906 the company has Deen given an
annual outing or encampment. In ad-
dition to this special trips have been
taken from the Armory at Nashville,
Tenn, to Murfreesboro, Shelbyville,
Franklin, Lebanon, Memphis and
Clarksville, Tenn. Sham battles have
been fought ON several fields. The
company is composed Of young men
who are citizens of Davidson County
and who earn living by faithful
service in any of the trades or pro-
fessions of civil life. They have rec.
ords for faithfulness of service in
their civil avocations which reflect
credit on any class of men. They
are industrious, honest, upright and
trustworthy, and when enlisted bring
such recommendation from their en-
ployers. The company has a record
of which it is justly proud. For eff
ficiency and discipline the records
show that Company G. (unattached)
stands second to no company in Ten
neSsee. Be it said to the credit Of
State and Federal governments that
the officials have been so just and
magnanimous in the execution of their
seevral duties that in many respects
Company G. has been recorded as a
company of S. G. Of Tennessee with
the privileges and opportunities to
demonstrate the ability of soldiers.
The Solidarity of the Negro Soldier.
OF the ten millions of Negro citi-
zens within the United States, eight
millions live south of Mason and Dix
on Line These eight millions of Ne
groes are represented In the military
department of this great government
by this one company, composed of
sixty enlisted men, making one en-
listed man represent more than one
million five hundred thousand souls.
Just think of one and a half million
human beings occupying a territory,
say 400 miles long and 100 miles wide,
like our own fair Tennessee, famous
throughout the civilized world for her
lofty mountains which kiss the vault
ed skies, and within whose ..........
....... an unsurpassed climate for
healthul beauty and variety, within
whose bowels are found field of iron
ore, the first in the world Mines Of
coal enough to supply the nation for
ages. Between these huts are fertile
valleys rich with every variety Of
product and traversed here and there
by clear brooks, creeks and rivulets
toaming with a variety of fishes.
Here the mountain trout is seen to
jump like the proverbial bull frog
and the horned owl in the twilight and
quietness Of the cool night will call
to the passer-by who, who, who are
your" This echo floats back from
the opposite mountain as if seven
owls instead of one were asking the
question. Here the turtle dove in
plaintiff ..,....... calls to his mate
or lady love and refuses to be COM
forted though he may be answered
from a neighboring crag. The whip
poorwill whistles as we'll as the Bob