The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-13
MOBILE TO SAIL TO-DAY.
WILL GO TO SEA On THE EARLY
TIDE THIS MORNING.

Tbe 1G1st Indiana and the Third Bat
talon of the, second Illinois Board
cd the ship Yesterday Afternoon.
The LoaGing Accomplished Expc-
ditiOusIy and in satisfactory
N1anncr-Gen. MiIIiston Aboard in
Charge of the Second Division
Headguarters-The Second Illinois
Band to Go.
The transport Mobile will sail this morn
ing at o'clock with the One Hundred
and Sixty-frst Indiana, the Third Battal-
ion of the Second Illinois and the division
and brigade headquarters of the Second
Division and the First Brigade of that
division. Quick work was done in loading
the Mobile, and with an hours more time
she could have gone out on last nights
tide The work was conducted more ex-
peditiously, and there was more system
displayed than in any previous embarka-
ton of regiments of the Seventh Army
Corps
The one Hundred and Sixty-frst Indi-
ana and the battalion of the Second Hi
nois left their camps Immediately after
dinner and marched to the wharves, pass
ing through the city about 2:90 o'clock
The One Hundred and Sixty-frst Indiana
has been a popular regiment here, and
the boys were given IAN ovation as they
passed through the streets. At the wharf
the men were held outside until the ship
was in readiness to receive them. They
were then marched aboard by companies,
each company being assigned TO its place
in the ship. Owing to the superior ar
engagements of the Mobile, it was not nee
essary to hold the men until all the bag
gage had been loaded and thus a long
and tiresome wait was saved The men
were all comfortably housed before night,
and but for the additional baggage to be
loaded, the ship could have sailed at
o'clock.
Maj. Gen. Francis V. Greene, COM
mander of the Second Division of the Sew
enth Army Corps, is now in Cuba, where
he has been for some time looking after
camp sites for the corps. Brig, Gen. Ed
ward B. Williston has since been in com
mand of the division. and will be in COM
mand of the troops aboard the Mobile. The
officers of the Second Division staff are
Capt. Edwin St. J. Creble assistant adj
jutaut general; Maj. Benjamin H. Cheever,
inspector general; Maj. James l.. Wilson.
Quartermaster; Maj. Robert L. Long
street. chief commissary of subsistence;
Maj. Hugh J. McGrath chief engineer Of
fcer; Maj. Frank H. Edmunds, chief ord
nance officer; Maj. Paul Clendennin, chief
surgeon.
The first brigade staff consists of Capt.
Robert G. Paxton, assistant adjutant
general; First Lieutenant John W. Gulick
acting quartermaster; capt. Oliver Perry
Smith, commissary of subsistence; Maj.
John G. Davis, surgeon.
The First Brigade consists of the First
North Carolina, the Second Illinois, and
the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana
and with the departure of the Mobile the
entire brigade viii have left Savannah for
Cuba. Col. Moulton of the Second Hi
nois is in charge of the brigade or that
portion now in Cuba.
The field and staff officers of the One
Hundred and Sixty-tfrst Indiana, who will
sail on the Mobile, are Col. Winfield T.
Durbin, Lieut. Col Victor NJ. Backus,
Maj. Harold c. Megrew, First Lieutenant
and Adjutant Oliver NJ. Tichenor First
Lieutenant and Quartermaster John r..
Brunt Major and Surgeon Wicliffe Smith,
First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon
Millard F. Gerrish, First Lieutenant and
Assistant Surgeon James Wilson, Chaplain
William e. Biederwof.
Col. William T. Durbin of the One Hun
dred and SiXty-first Indiana Regiment is
in command of the First Brigade of the
Second Division, and his regiment is I'M
der Lieut.. Col Backus. Col. Durbin is
greatly pleased with the transport that
has fallen to the lot of his men. There
are 1,19S of the Indianians aboard, and
every man of them has a cot,
spring and mattress. These
are accommodations that are superior to
any that have before been had by regi-
ment leaving Savannah. The Mobile is
fitted up better for the transportation of
troops than any other. The colonel eX-
pressed himself as well pleased with the
stay of his regiment in Savannah. The
Indiana troops are well thought of here,
there having been but little in the way
Of disorder INDUCED in by any of them.
They make good soldiers, and the One
Hundred and SiXty-first is recognized as
one of the best regiments in the corps.
Maj. Holman G. Purinton commands the
Illinois battalion.
The Mobile viii land her troops at Ma
rinao. where the camp of the Seventh
Army Corps has been established
The transport Chester came up the river
yesterday morning She win take the place
of the Mobile at the Central press wharf
''iA9 iHOi illB ana VIII at once DeSIn the
work of loading the supplies and bag
sage of the Fourth Virginia Regiment
The loading viii probably be completed in
twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
The hospital and medical supply ship
Missouri is still in the river not yet hav-
ing obtained her cargo of medical supplies
The transport Berlin is now on her way
TO Savannah from Philadelphia, and is
expected TO arrive to-day or tomorrow
nj he
In the government service, having a gross
tonnage of 5641, and IS said to be $40 feet
IN length. She has a capacity OF 1000 men.