The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-06
HOW THE TROOPS WILL COME.
PROGRAMME ARRANGED FOR THE
MOVEMENT FROM CUBA.

| Saturday OF sunday on the ma
Vana and Go Into Detention Camp
at Daufuskie-Third Nebraska,
Third Kentucky, Ninth Illinois,
sixth Ohio. Thirty-First Michigan.
Fourth Illinois and Battalion
of the Third Engineers Are the
Other Troops for which the Plan
Has Been ArranGed-Au VIII Come
TO savannah and Five More Regi-
ments May Follow.
The programme for moving the volun-
teer regiments from Cuba to Savannah has
been made up by Col. J. b. Bellinger, tel
| egraphed to Washington, approved by the
war department. and cabled to Gen. Hum
phrey, who is quartermaster in charge
Of the island,
| The Forty-ninth Iowa and six companies
of the Sixth Missouri Regiment will be
the first troops to arrive under the ar
rangement They will arrive Saturday or
Sunday on the Ward Liner Havana. The
vessel will unload the men and their bag
gage at the quarantine station. The men
will be taken on lighters or the Santee
to Daufuskie, after having their personal
baggage disinfected. and the heavy bag
gage will remain behind 10 be disinfected
Camps for the troops will be arranged on
Daufuskie before they arrive
Seven regiments and battalion of the
Third Engineers are to be brought to Sa-
vannah under the plan. Il has not been
settled where the regiments are to be mus
tered out of the service, but il is thought
Co.
superior facilities, to be named as the
muster-out station for all volunteer regl-
ments coming from Cuba
The entire movement as mapped out viii
be as follows: The Third Kentucky will
be brought from Matanzas by the Kilpat-
rick and the Florida. The Third Nebraska
will be taken on the Logan to Dry Tortu-
gas, where the command will be disinfect-
ed. The Logan will return to Havana and
take on board the Ninth Illinois, which il
viii bring 10 Savannah. The transport
will then return to Dry Tortugas, where
it will take on board the Third Nebraska
and bring the regiment to Savannah. The
Havana and the San Antonio are TO bring
the Forty-ninth Iowa and the Sixth Mis-
souri, The SedgewiGk will take eight
companies of the Seckpd Infantry from
Savannah to CienfuegoA where it will re-
ceve the Sixth Ohio and bring the regl-
ment back. The Thomas viii bring the
Thirtyfirst Michigan and headquarters
the band and battalion of the Third En-
gineers from Cienfuegos
In addition to all the above regiments,
which are 10 come to or go through Savan-
nah, the Fourth Illinois may be consider
ed That regiment will be taken to Egg
!
mouth, Plant vessels, and viii there be
dlslnfected After the necessary five days
detention the regiment may either be
| brought 10 Savannah or to some other
! place for muster out. Two of the regi-
ments that have thus far returned by that
route have gone through to Augusta, while
one, the Fourth Virginia, part of
which came by water, has remained at
! Savannah.
If the Fourth Illinois can be considered
eight regiments and a battalion will ne
brought 10 Savannah. Already there are
! six regiments here TO be mustered out.
Two or three of these will probably be out
| of the service before the arrival of all the
| others that are to come. The first that
are to come will reach the city before any
| of those now here are out. 1t is probable
there win be as many as ten regiments
! in camp here at one time.
All the troops to be brought to Savannah
| will be unloaded at the quarantine station
! in the manner indicated for the Forty
ninth Iowa and the Sixth Missouri. They
will be transferred TO Daufuskie, kept for
| five days. and then brought TO the city
10 go into camp or board the train for
whatever points may be ordered. The sug
| gestion that Daufuskie be used instead of
! Sapelo and the satisfactory arrange
! ments that have been made mean that the
| entire movement of troops from Cuba can
| be made with a great deal more dispatch
After the commands that have been
| named have been moved there will remain
| two battalons of the Third Engineers and
| five other regiments, most of them i'm
! munes. to be brought from Cuba. 1t is pos
| sible the plan that will be operated in the
! Dresent movement will be continued an the
! later one and that all the regiments In
| the island may brought here. 1t is an
! derstood, however that the transfer Of
| troops from the warmth of Cuba to the
cold of the north is all that prevents the
department from re-establishing them in
Camp Meade. If such is the case, it is
thought the last regiments of volunteers
10 leave Cuba viii be sent to the Penn
sylvania camp, as the weather will have
grown warmer by the time the movement
commences. Some days ago II was given
out as the plan to have the, regiments
| mentioned taken to Camp Meade, but the
| change may mean much for the health of
the men.
Bringing such body of troops to Sa-
vannah will be of vast benefit in a COM
mercal way, and their coming will be of
great interest TO merchants and many 9TH
ers The commands that are held here
for muster out will spend a great deal of
money, as some of them viii be paid off
before they are discharged, in all proba-
bility, and again when they leave the
service Even the regiments that go
through mean money for the local rail-
roads and for the towboat owners and 9TH
ers interested in the movement of the
troops by lighters.