In 1913, Major A. H. Lindorme returned to Atlanta after attending the 22nd annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in Denver. His report to the Adjutant General, Joseph Van Holt Nash consisted of some interesting notes. "The morning session," Lindorme wrote, "was devoted to work of our brother officers of the Navy.... The hospital ship is now part of a fleet of battleships and is a great thing in saving life and relieving the fighting force of their sick and wounded.... During the [1905] Japanese-Russian War, we learned that after an engagement it was a big job to clean decks, and especially, in a warm climate, the blood spilled on the deck rapidly decomposes and produces a very bad odor, and would do much to demoralize the remaining crew.

A later session, Lindorme continued, was devoted to "Malta fever." . . . Malta fever is an infectious disease derived from goats, goat-herders being often attacked, the goat milk being the agent which carries the infection. If the milk is first boiled, however, no harm will come of its use.

Lindorme noted that the "dinner" program was "opened" by a surgeon of the Colorado National Guard, whose topic, "Mental Hygiene" was very scientific. He was followed, wrote Lindorme, by a medical officer of the Illinois National Guard, who delivered a paper on the "Surgeon's Field Armamentarium." Alleging that the field equipment furnished by the Army of 1913 to be inadequate, the officer exhibited a case of instruments he judged better suited for the military. Thus Lindorme reported that:

"One thing in this case which would prove a great aid is a simple infusion set by which warm saline solution can be put in a man's veins after a large quantity of blood has been lost from a wound. This is a great life saver. These things are all very interesting, but it will take a war to prove their practicability. . . ."

Four years later the Georgia Guard went to war.

In 1913, the Adjutant General of Georgia, Joseph Van Holt Nash, had some revelations of his own for the General Assembly. According to Van Holt Nash, he had "formulated and introduced a complete system of accounting, purchased modern vermin and rat-proof filing cases to preserve the old priceless historical State records; made material improvements in the Arsenal for the preservation and safe-keeping of the Government property while stored therein."

Five years later (1918), the acting Adjutant General of Georgia, Major Arthur McCollum reported dutifully that "At the beginning of the year we had no National Guard nor State troops" due to the war in Europe.