Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-07
FIFTH REGIMENT MERGED
INTO sIXTY-FIRST, U. S. A.
Is Officially Distinguished as
124th InfantY-Reorgani-
cation of Brigade

1.-THE first of the advance guard of
Florida troops which. with those of Ala
bama and Georgia. will be stationed here
arrived this morning.
Company D. of the former First Flori-
da regiment. and the field hospital corps
/ arrived from Jacksonville. There are
las men in the former and seventy in
the latter.
Company Z. OF the First Florida, will
arrive from Plant City Wednesday.
Ambulance detachment d. Of the former
Alabama brigade, left Montgomery this
morning and will arrive at Camp Wheel
er at midnight.
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)
CAMP HARRIS, MACON, Ca, Sept
4.-Re-organiza ton of the former Geor-
gia brigade into smaller units in line
with the plans adopted by the war de-
partment, based on experience or
French and English in trench warfare.
has begun.
Details OF the plan were disclosed in
orders issued by Major General T. j.
Herman late yesterday assigning the zoo
reserve officers to the Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida troops. Practically
all OF the reserve officers live in Ten
at training camps.
The former Georgia brigade. now the
Sixty-first. U. 8. A. will be composed
OF two infantry regiments. They viii
be the former Fifth regiment of Allan
"a. now the One Hundred and Twenty
fourth infantry, and the former Second
regiment. OF Macon. now the One Hun
bred and Twenty-third infantry.
Twenty-six reserve officers were as
signed to the former and twenty-one to
the latter. There were only six vacan-
cies I'm the Atlanta regiment, which now
has a surplus of twenty officers. They
were assigned to companies, however.
The size OF companies will be increased
in accordance with the reorganization
plan to $50 men. each.
The First regiment. OF Savannah, will
become the One Hundred and Eight
zenith field artillery. The machine gun
company OF that regiment will be de-
tached and form part of machine
gun battalion similar to the One Run-
bred and Fifty-first recently drawn
from the former Georgia brigade and
ordered to. France. There will be 172
men and six officers in each machine
gun company. Thirteen reserve Off
GERS were assigned the First regiment.
1t is understood that regiment will
be detached from the former Georgia
brigade and become a part of the Fifty
sixth artillery brigade. commanded by
Brigadier General J. G. Hayden. Battery
A, Georgia field artillery, and the First
Alabama cavalry will form the One
Hundred and Seventeenth Field artil-
lery. which also will be a part of the
artillery brigade The remainder of the
First battalion, Georgia field artillery,
which includes b battery. of Atlanta,
Scuadrop nf Georgia caV-
airy. which includes the Atlanta, Savan-
nah and Liberty troops, will form the
One Hundred and Sixty-sixth field ar
tillery, and also will be part of the ar
tillery brigade This change means that
Georgia will send no cavalry abroad, all
being changed to artillery.
The two remaining infantry regiments
Of the former Alabama brigade, COM
manded by Brigadier General r. B.
Steiner. will remain in that branch of
the service. The First Alabama will
become the One Hundred Twenty-first
infantry and the Second Alabama the
One Hundred Twenty-second. Twenty
six reserve officers were transferred to
the former and nineteen to the latter.
The First battalion of the Second Ala
bama with the First Florida infantry,
with the exception Of the machine gun
company Of the latter. will form the de-
pot brigade. commanded by Brigadier
General A H Blanding.
Members OF the Fifth were greatly
pleased when they learned they were to
remain in the infantry branch of the
service. AS a result. they pointed out,
IL will be unnecessary for them to again
start at the bottom and learn soldier
ing again They aIso were pleased
that they will remain in the brigade
commanded by General Walter A. Har-
ris. who has commanded the Georgia
troops for years. and under whom they
served on the Mexican border