New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-22
Tho Fever at Barrancas.
We copy the following from the Pensaco
la Gazette, of the nineteenth nstant:

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la Gazette, of the nineteenth instant:
This calamity has reached its natural
conclusion, having run through the email
station and become but a melancholy record
1 IN it's history. The perplexing question in
v0lved in it's consideration is the manner of
| it's intreduc ton. Professional "a we'll as
I general opinion has pointed to the fever
! ship Won MOltke, that began to bury her
| dead before she reached the quarantine an
+ chOrage, as the fateful vehicle which i'm
ported the plague. 1t was known that she
laid at anchor for night in the Jaws OF the
| channel not far from Fort Barrancas, and it
has been frequently stated land often ques-
tlOned) that there was communication be-
| tween her and Barrancas.
We now have information which seems
to establish the fact that there was Gem.
munication between the ship and the gar.
rison. We do NOS forget the classic alb
surdity "De mortuis nil nisi b0Num"-which
would utterly do away with the truth of
hlstOry-when we record, on apparently
competent authority, that members Of the
garrison of Fort Barrancas did 20 off to the
Won MOltke, and that every one Of them is
dead. The persons in the boat, which went
OH more than once, were all nOn-c0mmis-
stoned officers, and their business was to
obtain brandy, and perhaps cigars and
other articles, duty free The gentleman
who gives MS this information saws he
received it from Corporal Steiger, Unit ID
States marines, the last man Of the navy
yard force who has died up to the time Of
this writing. He stated to our informant
that he had bought three bottles of the con-
traband brandy from one of the men who
went off to the Won Moltke, and gave tn 9
names Of those engaged in the enterprise.
He and they are now dead as We stated
above. We are not advised how long or
how intimate his intercourse was with the
men who boarded the fever ship. Our in
fOrMant 10 prepared to make affidavit to
what he states to us is the information he
received from Corporal Steiger.
The same paper publishes the following
list Of deaths;of fever at Fort Barrancas:
Henry Correll, sergeant, Company A,
First Artillery. and acting commissary SER
geant, died July g.
Mrs. Correll, wife of the above, died july
"a.
Clarence Randol infant son of Colonel
Randol, died July 25.
poral Moran, died July 25.
Thomas Malone, sergeant. Company A,
First Artillery, died July 25.
Joseph Dease, private, Company F, First
Artillery, died July 25.
Willie Henry, son of First Sergeant Hen
~. Of Company M, First Artillery, died
July s6.
Thomas Dean, serseant, Company F, died
July 26.
Frederick Miller. corporal. Company F,
died July 26.
Michael Leughman, private. Company L,
died July 26.
Theodore Williamson, bugler, Company.
=, died July a.
James r. Finnigan, FIRST sergeant, Com
pany L, died July q.
George Gehnef, private, Company F, First
Artillery, died July q.
Timothy Moran, corporal, Company F,
First Artillery, died July q.
James Henderson,, private, Company L,
First Artillery, died July %.
Michael Freundscher, private Company
L, First Artillery, died July 90.
Mrs. Anna Malone. wife of Sergeant
Thomas Malone, died July %.
Company A, First Artillery,
died July %.
Mrs. Eliza II. Ipgalls, wife of Lieutenant
James H. Ingalls,, First Artillery, died July
Mrs. Jenny Breaker. wife of Bugler i.
Breaker, OF Company M, First Artillery,
lied July %.
Arthur Ingalls,, son of Lieutenant James
q. Ingalls,, First Artillery. died July 81.
Lighna, Company L. First Artillery, died
July 81.
James Shahey, private, Company l., First
Artillery, died July 81.
Robert McPhall, first sergeant, Company
!, First Artillery, died August l..
Richmond Allen. private. Company A,
first Artillery, died August 2
John Evans, sergeant, Company NJ. First
artillery, died August 8.
Richard Moran, son of Corporal Moran,
led August 4.
irst Artillery. died August G.
Hospital Steward William Hill, died An !
ust 8.
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