New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-24


Regiment, ,. ,. y, Place.
Third L. g Volunteer Engineers. Matsasss .na
Second T. $. Volunteer Infantry saSiAse NO
Fourth l. s. Volunteer Infantry Nannsnllo
Firth L. s Volunteer Infantry. Santiago
Fourth illinois Volunteer lnfantry........ Havana
Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry .hsysr,
one hundred and -sixty-hrst Indiana Voiun-
rer fr n 1ndH' iowa volunteer infantry Hsns,
second Louisiana Volunteer Infantry .... hsnas
Third Nebraska Volunteer Iafantry Hawai-
First North Carolina Volunteer Intsniry Hawai-.
First Texas Volunteer Infantry. ......... Havana
T SId K vrsaS vo cnss nisn MssS
Eight Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Mssalas
Thirty-drst Michigan Volunteer Infantry csnfuegN
Fourth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry cierfuegos
In addition to these there are eight companies q
the United States Volunteer Signal Corps distributed
through the island which must be brought homs
and mustered out as soon as possible All the Gov
ernment transports now on the Atlantic Coast will
no utilized. These include the Dixie which has
been secured from the Navy Department the
Comal the Crook. the Fitzpatrick, the Logan. the
Mcclellan the Mcpherson. the Meade the Sedg-
wick and the Thomas. besides such Ward and
Plant Line steamers as can be used.
For the last week every effort has been made 70
bring home At least ten OF the regiments before
April /, when Surgeon-General Wyman OF the
Marine Hospital Service insists that quarantine
against West indian ports shall be established
The plan for this project IL outlined in the follow
ing report.
ousrtermaster- Generals ONCE,
Washington. March IS issa.
To the Adjutant General Of the Army.
General: In order that the troops or the seventh
Army Corps and others designated may he gotten
to the United States before April l. the time SET
BY the Treasury Department for close quarantine.
| have the honor to furnish you with the following
proposed arrangements which are now being per-
fected as rapidly possible:
ha n W
for muster viii be brought there by using the
Ward Line the Florida. and those o. the Plant
Steamship Company running between Havana ana
Port Tampa. 49,
The personal effects Of the troops will he ds,n-
fectcd at the Quarantine stations AZ savannah.
Sapelo and Muilet Key. ~
The troops to be disinfected at the savannah
Quarantine Station will be disembarked on lighters
taken 10 Fort Pulaski for temporary camp, from
there sent by companies TO the quarantine sts-
ton about three hundred yards away, Tor dls'ntec-
ton. and then taken TO the city and placed IN ths
permanent camps for muster out
The ships sent TO Sapelo VIII be dlslntecleu ~
well as the effects of the troops. and the vessels
will then proceed direct 10 the wharf AT savannah
and the troops disembarked and sent 10 me per
manent camps az the city for muster out me
troops going by Port Tampa VIII be disintected
at Mullet Key and proceed by ran from Pol,
Tampa direct to the muserng-out camps az
irbn troops coming on the Ward Line
will be taken from these steamers on lighters a.
the mouth of the river and carried 10 tort
Pmlasld as indicated above for the troops IRON
The following is a proposed schedule giving the
ships to be used by the regiments oasea upon
bringing the regiments from 'ooa III 1"s o'uS'
hty