Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-24
Twenty-three Regiments to be
Home by April rs.
PROCEDURE TO PREVAIL.
Quarantine Regulations WIN be En-
forced Fen Regiments NAY
Come BY April 4.

the Tribune from Wofhlneinn says
Adiutant General Corhin has UNDER
taken TO ret all the volunteers out Of
cuba by April %. and arrangements
arc now being perfected with that end
IN View. This In fully two weeks within
the limit Of May 10. act By the Prcal-
den, before he left for the South. The
proportions OF the undertaking may be
realized when IL In remembered that
twcnty-thrcc regiments must be- trans
ported by sea TO the United States
ports within month.
All the government transports now nt
the Atlantic viii b. utilised. These
Include the Dixie. which has been sc-
cured from the navy department the
'onal the Crook, the Fitzpatrick. the
scdgwick and the Thoman, bcaidea such
Ward aud Plant line steamers ne can
BE- used.
For tho past week every effort has
hgcn made To bring home ~ least ton
~ the regiments before April /, when
surgeon General Wymnn ~ the marine
hospital service insists that quarantine
nguinat West Indian ports shall be-
established. The plan for this IN out
lined IN the following report
QuartcrmaAtcr Generals Office. wash
inEtuu, March 10, 1877,
To the Adjutant General Of the
Army Gcnontl-in order that the
troops OF the seventh army corps and
others designated may be- gotten 10 the
United States before April !. the time
set by the treasury department for
close quarantine. l haic the honor To
furnish you with the following pro-
posed arrangements Which are now be-
Ing perfected ~ rapldii M possible:
The troops 10 be concentrated nt Su.
vnnnah. Ga. for muster out viii BE-
brought there By using the transports
Of the dcparimunt--twO Vessels OF the
Wari line. the Florida. and those u
the Plant Steamship company running
between Havana and Port TAMPA.
The personal effects OF the troops VIII
be disinicctud at the quarantine sta
tions NJ Savannah. snpcio and Muilet
Key.
The troops TO be dlslnfcctcd NJ tho
savannah quarantine station will be
| dlAcmbnfkcd on uchtcra taken Ia Fort
| Pulaski for Temporary camp. from
| thcrc sent 10y companies 60 the aunian-
tine station. about three hundred yards
away. foi dirinfccuun and then taken
10 the city and placed In the permanent
camps Tor muster out.
The rhira also sent to SapclO VII be
diHlnfcctod. me- well az the effects OF
the troops and the vessels VIII then
proceed direct 60 the wharf nt SaNan-
nah and the troops dlscmbarkcd and
| sent TO the permanent camps at the city
for muster out. The troops going by
| Port Tampa will b. diHlnfoctcd nj Mui.
| let Key and proceed by rail from Port
| Tampa direct 60 the mastering out
camp ut Savannah,
The troops coming On the Ward line
steamers viii be- taken from these
steamers on lighters at the mouth Of
/ the river and carried Co Fort Pulaski.
| -. "a ntH
| transports.
The following IL proposed schedule
giving the ships 10 b. used by the rcgi-
menta. based upon bringing the rcgi-
ments from cuba In the order indicat-
cd by your office
| TRANSPORT Thomas. Second Louifiana.
/ TRANSPORT Havana. Third Georgia,
| transport Logan; First Texas. trans.
ports Fitzpatrick ana Florida TO Cal
| vcaton: one Hundred and SiNticth
Indiana, transport Thomas, Third I'm.
muneH. transport scdgwick; SECOND
south Carolina, Plant lin" via Tampa;
First North Carolina, transport vigil
lnneln: Fourth Virginia, transport Loo
Gan. Fourth Tennessee, transport iia-
Vana.
| II must b. Understood. however. that
| n for any reason the ship Indicated for
any regiment does not arrive In time
1
mont vii take tbc INT ship that comes
| IN. In this manner the regiments viii
| be moved In the sequence desired
Very respectfully.
NJ l. LuppiNGToN.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
This scheme Is being rapidly esecut-
ed with a few notifications. tho 2osnd
New York having already been landed
| while the Second Louisiana u now In
l arl. d IA a.
| signed 10 the sedwick instead OF 10 the
Thomas. which has not had time to re-
| turn 10 cuba. lly the time these ten
| regiments return u ln expected that tho
| close quarantine win be- In force ana
the remaining regiments WI have 10
undergo distinction and detention AZ
Fort PULASKI and Mullet Key
EMnARKINo VOLUNTEERS.
New York. March IA special 20 the
| Tribune from Havana says
The embarkailon ~ volunteer regi-
menta which are 20 De- returned 10 the
| United states fnr mastering out In
nro"eedine rapidly The ollvettc
"Wednesday took away two companies
Of the Second South Carolina and I'VE
companics of the same regiment sailed
Thuradny on the Yarmouth. These two
versels will mako return tripa from
Tampa for the rst 1f the regiment
one Of The Ward line steamers which
arrived This morning was also char
tered FOR n trlp 90 snynnah,nnd VIII car
ry 10 that port another regiment from
General Lees command.
l'he camp at Bdega Vista IN rapidly
Diminishing In Hlzn. hut this y such an
excellent one that f'ino nl me regular
troops now qunttored elsewhere near
the clty viii b. sent there as the volun-
teera are Withdrawn
Murdorous Dueilng.
NV Ynrk. March IA dIHpateh 70