Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-17
VIRGINIANs IN CAMP.
The Latest from tie Fourth-Their
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Correspondence of the Dispatch)
CAMP ONWARD. SAVANNAH, GA,
November l5.-Colonel Curtis Guild. in
fnector-geueral Of the Seventh Army
Corps, in an interview with the Dispatch
correspondent to-day, made the follow
ng statement in regard 10 the removal
uf Lees troops TO Habana, which should
aiay an the fears Of the folks at home
fl regard 10 their soldier boys becoming
r prey TO the yellow-feyer. He said: LAS
no present contemplated. the camps OF
the troops wiz be on the hills of the
suburbs. about two or three miles from
Habana.
"Iieutenant-Colonel Williams and
others Of the Americans who died with
The fever while located at Habana, had
been working and sleeping very near the
larbor. in the low section Of the city, and
tneir disease was very probably contract
cd in the warm riany. and siclIly sea-
son, which IS over now.
.Splrlv AN the deaths that have oc-
CURED Doe Habana and vicinity have been
il the low section, near the harbor, which
is "a gigantic cesspOol. the entrance being
SD narrow that IT contains the drainage
az years and is never thoroughly secured
out by the tides. The same IS true OF
Santiago. 10 Is from these ports that yell
1uw-fever has come over 10 the United
States every year and has already slain
more people in this country than we
have lost on the battlefield
The opening up of these harbors, so
that the sewage can be scattered out 10
sea and the consequent permanent stop
page Of the yelow-fever plague VIII be
one of the most beneficial results 10 the
United States OF this war.
ttrs.ff, Do1ongl .na md General Greene.
who have been sent forward 10 pick out
camp sites are agreed that environments
are preferable TO tents. The boys. there
fore will be housed neither In the ADAM
doned Spanish barracks, nor in tents, but
in newly-built. airy barracks, located on
the heights TO which the yellow fever
germs do not ascend.
THE fact that General Lee has sent
his own son with General Greene TO Ha-
l4na. where they VIII be quartered until
The corps arrives, not on these airy
heights. but i'm the city proper, is the
host evidence that General Lees expert
once has made him confident that no fur
tber serious danger from yellow-fever
now exists. even in the city itself. until
the return Of the rainy season next June
o. which time I'm all probability, all the
volunteers will be mustered out ana the
r,lular army, which IS to take their
Mace. will have been recruited 10 proper
strength"
MUSTERED OUT.
Am Of the contract surgeons Of the
Seventh Army Corps, numbering about
Ifty will have TO 80 before medlcal
examining board. Twenty have already
been examined, but the result or the eN-
animation has not yet been announced.
There ere a good many who are def
c..ur and Il is 10 be hoped that the eX-
gmistiOn will result in their being
"aounced." for soldiers-although they
gre an extraordinary class-are not Ike
Tie feline family, possessed Of nine lives,
but die only once.
EMERGENCY RATION.
Tb. chief commissary Of subsistence,
1..Itsnant-C Colonel 0. Z. Wood. has been
directed by General Lee TO experiment
with what is called the emergency
iauon" throughout the Seventh Army
Corps
I'm this ration Is one tablet Of tea ana
q package each Of pepper and SALT with
other compressed food equal in sustaining
and nutritive properties TO three ana
half pounds Of the best 1000 III us OF
binary state. Yet the whole package,
enclosed in tin, weighs only one pound
and measures only twenty-seven cubic
inches
In is intended mainly for troops
I'm the field A test will be made by COL
ouel Wood on five or six volunteers, VINO
MIL agree TO eat nothing else for period
a. five days and who Will go through the
same routine work at which they nave
always been engaged.
This food. by the addition Of water,
can be made into soup, brolh' or a
porridge. and can be condensed 50 as 10
h. Sliced like meat or bread. 1t is said
that about five ounces Of IL will give a
fellow a good meal.
There Is no harm in experimenting with
g. anyhow. il could hardly De poorer
food than a sandwich OF salt pork ana
bareback. on which we have made many
a meal
THE FOURTH VIRGINIA PROVOST.
There now seems 10 be very little proba-
billy Of the Fourth Virginia's going on
provost duty in Savannah as a regiment
il Is thought best that companies from
different regiments should be on duty al
the same time 50 as to break up par
ltHt..
One or two companies Of the Fourth
Virginia viii probably be placed on the
streets Of Savannah. with the SOuth Car
DINA and Iowa soldiers.
BLUES GERMAN.
The Richmond Blues are arrangihg
german to be given 10 the Savannah girls
next Friday night.
The Blues found that they had more
scquaintances to start with on their ar
rival IN Savannah than they had when
they first encamped at Jacksonvllie. In
consequence Of this, they didn't even
have 10 break the social ice before com
mencing 10 have gay time.
Company II, Fourth Virginia, to-day
received two recruits, who were mustered
out Of an Ohio regiment about a month
ago. Their names are w Miller and II. D.
Stress Special arrangements were made
with the War Department by General
Lee for receiving them into the company
Private o. II. Dent, OF Company II, VINO
had been sick for two months at the nos
pital IN Jacksonville. and Fort Thomas,
Ky. and had been spending thirty-d9y
furlough at his home, returned to his
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