The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-25
Adjutant- General Corbin Perfecting
Arrangements
With View 10 Having Them Start Home
by April 25th.
All the Government Transports in
the Atlantic to be Utilized in
Carrying the Twenty-Three
Regiments Now in the Island
Back to the United States.

BACK Co the OnICe0 states.
NEW YORK, March PA dispatch
to the Tribune from Washington
says
Adjutant General Corbin has UNDER
taken to get all the volunteers out of
Cuba by April 25th, and arrangements
are now being perfected with that end
in view. This is fully two weeks with !,
in the limit-May 15th-set by the Pres
ident, before he left for the South.
The proportions of the undertaking.
may be realized when it is remembered
that twenty-three regiments must be
transported by sea to the United States
ports within a month.
All the Government transports noKysi
in the Atlantic will be utilized. These
include the Dimic, which has been Sc
cured from the Navy Department; the,
Comal, the Crook the Fitzpatrick, thesl
Sedgwic4x and the Thomas. besides such
Ward and Plant line steamers as cans
be used.
For the past week every effort has
been made to bring home at least tens
of the regiments before April LIST, when
Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine
Hospital Service insists that quaran-
tine against West Indian ports. shall be-
established.
The plan for this is outlined in the
following report:
Quartermaster Generals Office, WASH
ington, March Ito the Adjutant
General of the Army-General: In
order that the troops of the Seventh
Army Corps and others designated may
be gotten to the United States before
April lst, the time set by the Treas
ury Department for close quarantine, I
have the honor to furnish you with the
following proposed arrangements, which
are now being perfected as rapidly ,as
possible:
The troops to be concentrated atsSa-
varnah, Ca, for muster out will be-
brought there by using the transports
of the department, two vessels of the
Ward line, the Florida and those Of
the Plant Steamship Company running
between Havana and Port Tampa.
The personal effects of the troops will
be dtsinfected at the quarantine sta
tons al Savannah, Sapelo and Mullet
Key.
The troops to be disinfected at the
Savannah quarantine station will be
disembarked on lighters, taken to Fort
Pulaski for temporary camp, from
there sent by companies to the quar-
antine station, about 300 yards away.
for disinfection, and then taken to the
city and placed in the permanent
camps for muster-out.
The ships also sent to Sapelo will be-
disinfected, as well as the effects Of
the troops, and the vessels will then
proceed direct to the wharf at Savan-
nah and the troops disembarked and
n he hn
city for muster-out The troops going
to Port Tampa will be disinfected at
Mullet Key and proceed by rail from
Port Tampa direct to the mastering
out camps at Savannah.
The troops coming on the Ward line
steamers will be taken from these
steamers on lighters at the mouth of
the river and carried to Fort Pulaski.
as indicated above for the troops from
transports.
The following is a proposed schedule
giving the ships to be used by the regi-
ments, based upon bringing the regi-
ments from Cuba in the order indicated
by your office:
Two Hundred and Second New York,
transport Thomas; Second Louisiana,
transport Havana; Third Georgia.
transport Logan: First Texas, trans.
ports fitzpatrick and Florida to Gall
weston; One Hundred and Sixtieth In
diana, transport Thomas; Third I'M
munes. transport Sedgwick; Second
South Carolina, Plant line via Tampa3
First North Carolina, transport Vigi-
lancia; Fourth Virginia, transport
Dixie; Third Kentucky, transport Lo-
gan; Fourth Tennessee, transport Ha-
yana.
1t must be understood, however, that
If for any reason the ship indicated for
any regiment does not arrive in time
to carry out this schedule, the regiment
will take the first ship that comes in.
In this manner the regiments will be
moved in the sequence desired Very
respectfully, M. I. LUDINGTON
Quartermaster General
This scheme is being rapidly exec
cuted, with few notifications, the One
Hundred and Second New York having
already been landed, while the Second
Louisiana is now in transit The One
Hundred and SiXtieth Indiana has been
assigned to the Sedgwick instead of to
the Thomas, which has not had time
to return to Cuba. BY the time these
ten regiments return it is expected that
the close quarantine will be in force,
and the remaining regiments will have
to undergo disinfection and detention
at Fort Pulaski and Mullet Key.