The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-01-31
THlRTlETH DIVISION TO
SAIL FOR U. S. BETWEEN


Due to Arrive Either At Charleston
or New York About March
5th or 9th.
Columbia Record, 2sth.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office of the Chief of Staff,
Washington.
January q, 1919.
Mr.. ]. Wilson Gibbes, Clerk, South
Carolina House of Representatives.
Columbia, South Carolina.
Dear Sir: The secretary of war di-
rects me to acknowledge receipt of
your telegram of January 2Srd quoting
resolution adopted by the South Caro-
lima general assembly regarding de
mobilization Of the Goth Division at
Camp Sewer.
He further directs me to inform
you that orders were recently issued
directing the abandonment Of Camp
Sewer at the earliest practicable date.
1t will therefore be impossible to de-
mobilize the 3oth Division at Camp Sc
yier. {.
l regret that am unable to give you
a more favorable reply.
Very truly yours,
E. D. Anderson,
Brigadier General, G.. S., Acting Di-
rector of Operations.
x Washington, jan 29.-According to
information just received from abroad
the 30th Division will sail between
February 18th and goth and reach
New York or Charleston March 5th
or 9Th.
A statement was made today by
member of the general staff of the war
department which is as specific in de
tail as can now be made. The entire
division, the statement says, will sail
from France at the came time, and
while Charleston has been tentative
ly selected as the port of debarkation,
it is stated that under certain con-
tingencies it may be necessary to di-
vert the division to New York This
depends entirely on the size of the
transports on which. the Tennessee.
and South Carolina troops are load
ed. No ship can safely enter Char
lesion harbor that draws over thirty
feet of water and it cannot be deter
mined until the day of embarkation
what ships will be available at Brest
for the Goth. If single unit happens
to be placed on ship which can not
be accommodated at Charleston then
the whole division will be landed at
New York in conformity with the rule
to keep all the ships together, and
debark at the same port. The troops
will be detained at the debarkation
port for three days for quarantine,
and swill then entrain for demobiliza-
tion camps 1t has been definitely de-
termined that the South Carolina and
North Carolina units will be sent to
Camp Jackson, while the Tennessee
units will go directly to Fort Ogle-
thorpe.
Before the 30th Division sails for
home it will be rejoined by the 55th
artillery brigade, comprising the 18th
114th and 115th field artillery and the
105 ammunition train. 1t is stated.
in fact, that the delay in embarkation
is partially due to the plan of Cen
Pershing to get all the units of the
famous fighting organization together
before it embarks. The policy is to
bring all units of combat division
home together in so far as it is prac-
ticable
The 30th Division has been in the
embarkation area for some time, in
fact 1t started toward the port as soon
as it wa sdetached from the British
command following the signing Of the
armistice. In the meantime the artil-
lery units have been in Germany with
the 33rd Division.
The 18th artillery is largely COM
posed Of South. Carolina troops The
18th Machine Gun Battalion, which
Is made up Of machine gun company
from the old Tennessee infantry, and
companies from South Carolina, and
headquarters company composed of
! what was formerly a South Carolina
cavalry troop is one Of the division
units.
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