This question makes no sense, is it true or false?

Due to this infectious disease, the American troops were sent to Montauk, a completely isolated, uninhabited save for a few herdsmen, available by either deep water transport or railroad, and still only a few hours train ride from New York.This question makes no sense, is it true or false?
It's not a question, it appears to be a statement and there seem to be some words missing: ';a completely isolated, uninhabited save for a few herdsmen'; completely isolated what?





Anyway, here's an interesting link, don't know if it answers anything for you though:This question makes no sense, is it true or false?
it is true -





ROUGH RIDERS IN MONTAUK








TR in Montauk 1898


The one small problem with having conquered Cuba was a rather nasty little disease, called yellow fever. During the course of the action, over 29,000 American troops had been exposed to it, along with nearly every other exotic, infectious disease known to be fatal to 19th century medicine. Winning the war was grand, but what to do with the troops? Demobilizing 29,000 potentially inflected soldiers, and sending them back home could well have been caused epidemics from San Fran to the Big Apple! Keeping them in Cuba could have been nearly as disastrous. As TR pleaded to the War Dept. on July 31, '; The army must be moved at once, or perish. As the army can be safely moved now, the person responsible for preventing such a move will be responsible for the unnecessary loss of many thousands of lives.'; The military had to arrive at a reasonable solution, and they settled on relocating those troops to Montauk, while they recovered.






Perhaps this link can help: Your question seems to be lifted almost in its entirety from the link provided.