The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-25
TO COME
EARLY IN MARCH
Twenty Thousand Men Leave France.
Seven Vessels Sail-War Depart
ment Announcement Does Not
Indicate Any for Camp Jack
son Demobilization.

Washington, Feb. 21.-Departure
from France of 700 officers and 20,-
900 men of the army on seven ves-
sells, including the battleship Michi-
gan and cruiser Rochester, was an
nounced today by the war depart
ment. The ships are due at Atlantic
ports between February rs and
! March 5.
Included among the men are the
first units of the Twenty-seventh
New York National Guard) Divis-
ion to start for home. They are
coming on the French liner Rocham-
beau from LIE Havre and are due at
New York March 8.
On the transport are the field and
staff headquarters, bond, Companies
A, B, G, and D, and the ordnance
and sanitary detachments Of the One
Hundred and Second Engineers,
bound for Camps Dix, Devens, Lo-
gan, Grant and Gordon.
The One Hundred and Second En-
gineers was originally constituted
from the Twenty-second New York
Engineers with 81 men each from tho
First, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Seventy
first and Seventy-fourth New York
Infantry Regiments, and one officer
and s3 men from the New York En-
gineer Train.
The White Star liner Olympic
should reach New York next Tuesday
with 375 officers and 5,312 men,
most of whom compose units and
detachments of the Ninety-second
(negro) Division. The largest unit
is the complete Three Hundred and
Sixty-ffth Infantry. The ship also
carries the Three Hundred and Se1-
enteenth Sanitary Train, the One
Hundred and Eighty-third Infantry
Brigade Headquarters and the Three
Hundred and Seventeenth Mobile
Ordnance Repair Shop, all of the
Ninety-second Division; detachments
of the Three Hundred and Fiftieth
Field Artillery, the Three Hundred
and Forty-ninth Machine Gun Bat
talon and the Three Hundred and
Sixty-seventh Division; casual COM
pany for Tennessee, and one each for
Illinois and Texas; Base Hospitals
Nos. 27, 29, and 80; fifty casual on
GERS and large number Of other
casuals. Brig. Gen. Charles Gheradi,
commanding the One Hundred and
Eigthy-third Infantry Brigade, aiss
is aboard the Olympic.
Thecruiser Rochester, also due at
New York Tuesday, has aboard ap-
proximately 800 soldiers, including
the Four Hundred and Sixty-seventh
Aero Squadron; Texas casual COM
pany and Mobile Hospital No. 100.
The transport Buford is due at
Newport News, March 4, with a de-
tachment of the Sixty-third Coast
Artillery for Fort Logan, COL; de-
tachment of the Sixth Heavy Mobile
Ordnance Repair Shop for Camp
Grant, and one for Columbus Bar
racks; casual companies for Arkansas
Illinois, Minnesota, Tennessee and
Texas; part of Company N, Three
Hundred and Forty-ffth Infantry,
Eigthy-seventh Division, for Camp
Grant, negro casual company for
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Virginia, and scattered casuals for
Illinois and Ohio.
The transport Santa Marta is due
March 5, port not given, with Base
Hospitals Nos. and %, and casuals
making up 45 officers and 81 men.
The transport Powhatan is due
March 2, port notgiven, with 105 Of
fcers and 1866 men, including the
Sixty-sixth Coast Artillery complete;
detachments of the Forty-seventh
Coast Artillery and parts Of the
Three Hundred and Thirty-ffth and
Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth
Field Artillery of the Eighty-seventh
Division, and a number of sick and
wounded and casuals.