The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-02
FOURTH WILL BE DETAINED.
TEN NESsEE REGIMENT WILL PROB
ABLY GO TO sAPELO.

ABLY GO TO SAPELO.
Ar rived at Noon Yesterday on the
transport Dixie-Had Gone Seventy
Miles North % the Mouth of the
Savannah River-The McCauIey
Did Not Meet Her on the Way.
Fort Pulaski Not Adapted a
Camp of Detention, as 1t Has No
HOspitaI-PrObabIe the Dixie viii
Take the Regiment to the Gov
eminent Station at SapeIO, Where
1t Will Camp for Five Days.
The transport Dixie arrived at quaran-
tine at noon yesterday from Trinidad.
cuba, with the Fourth Tennessee Regi-
ment. The transport worked her way up
the coast by dead reckoning, and thus ran
beyond the mouth of the Savannah river
she went seventy miles out of her course,
and il was for this reason that she did not
get within the three-mie limit of American
jurisdiction in SUFFICIENT time to prevent
the troops aboard being compelled to go
info a camp of detention for five days.
If the transport had reached the three
mile limit before midnight of night before
gone disinfecton and come on up to the
city. The marine hospital service, however,
demands that a camp of detention be es-
tablished, and that the Tennessee regi-
ment and any others coming from Cuba
must occupy it for FIVE days after having
been disinfeeted.
1t is probable the Dixie win leave to-
I,,- or for CapaIO rbera q CIV
eminent quarantine station is located.
There is hospital building there, and
abe island is adapted for camping purposes.
II will be necessary to stock the vessel
with rations before she can go. 1t is ex-
pected by the depot quartermaster that in
structions will come for the ship to go to
Sapelo as the camp at Fort Pulaski, where
IL was expected the regiment would be de-
aained in the event the Dixie did not ar
rive within time 10 avoid the close quar-
antne, is not adapted for detention pur-
poses There is no hospital there, and as
necessity for one might arise, il has been
decided that Sapelo is the better place E
The tug McCauley was sent out Friday
might by Col Bellinger In the hope that
she might intercept the Dixie and deliver
letter instructlng her to make all posi-
bic speed for quarantine in order that
She might arrive before the close restric-
tons of the marine hospital service went
into effect The tug kept her route closer
in shore than the Dixie and passed her
on the way. The transport was keeping
10 the Gulf Stream.
The Tennesseeans will be brought back
20 Savannah, in all probability to be mus
1erde out as soon as the five days of de-
tention have expired. There has been no
change in the pla1 yet. 1t is the purpose
of the department to send either the
Fourth Tennessee or the Third Kentucky
20 Augusta to be mustered out, but It is
not known which regiment it will be-
The Dixie will be sent back 10 Cuba aft
er she has discharged the Fourth Tennes-
see atfquarantine. 1t is the intention for
her TO bring the Ninth Illinois to some
camp of detention to be established
Capt II. c. Alexander is the only of
ficer of the Fourth Tennessee in the CITY.
lie did not come on the transport but
has been here for a day or two, having
come by way of Port Tampa, as an escort
for Mrs. Hannah, the mother of the lieu
tenant colonel of the Fourth. Lieut.. Col
Hannah was private secretary to Cow
Taylor of Tennessee before he was COM
missioned in the regiment. Capt Alexan-
der is very anxious 10 have the regiment
mustered out at Savannah and hopes the
authorities will see fit to so order it.
The Fourth Tennessee was the first reg
tered in under the second call. The sons
of Tennessee were ready to volunteer, and
the officers appointed to raise the regiment
when the second call came were anxious
10 get the command in the service as
quickly as possible. They were active and
energetic, and before June was ended they
had the command mustered in at Knox
Vile
The regiment remained at Knoxville I'M
Ill November, when it was ordered here.
The Manitoba was boarded Dec. l. and
the regiment went to Cuba. Six companies
We're stationed at Sancti Spiritus and six
at Trinidad. Capt Alexander reports a
very good time and the officers and men
seemed to enjoy their stay on the island.
There were very few deaths, only eight
men having died while the command was
on Cuban soil. That number represents
the entire death list of the regiment, as
not a man was lost before the command
reached Cuba. Capt. Alexander says the
regiment was In good health, and that
there seemed to be very littlel sickness in
the neghborhood in which the Tennessee
ans were camped.
Two regiments of Tennessee troops are
SUI in the service. One is in the Philip
pines and the Fourth is the other. Col
George Leroy Brown is commander of the
fourth Tennessee. He is a captain i'm the
regular infantry