The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18

only man In the command at La QuaS-
ina who was mounted, and that he
rode mule. He carried no baggage
except q rubber sslieker, a pajam and a
tooth brush The wounded were car
ried back to Siboney and while the
hospital was somewhat congested, the
men were well attended to.
General Young said that Immediate
~ after the Quasima fight he had look
ed the ground oyer toward Ell Caney
and had informed General Wheeler that
he was confident he could take the
place that night with his brigade, if al
lowed to do so.
General Wheeler had replied that his
orders from General Shafter Were not
to advance without notifying him, and
that he would notify the general of his
General Youngs) wishes.
He had not heard anything more Of
ficially in regard to the matter.
With this General Young's service in
Cuba ceased, as he was taken down
with fever on June go and sent back
home After e period of sickness he
was sent to Montauk Point to establish
Camp Wikoff. He detailed the difficult
ties of the preparation of the camp. He
said it had been impossible to get in
floors and that he had not considered
them necessary, either for health or
comfort.
81 gave them lumber, hammers and
nails, however, and told them to make
themselves floors if they wanted them.
l thought they were being treated too
much like babies
He regarded the commissary supplies,
be said, as abundant and that enough
had been allowed to spoil to feed 1,500
men daily. The hospital and quarter
master stores were also ample. He had
never in all his experience seen any
hospitals so well supplied with medi
cines and stores of all kinds. The con-
trolling motive in selecting Montauk
was that of selecting proper quaran-
tine, and a very strict quarantine was
observed. lie considered the camp
very healthful and the site very desir-
able
LAS to what was done there for the
soldiers" he said, Il think deserved
more credit for what [ did at Montauk
than for what L did at La Quasima.
think more was done than should
have been done for the soldiers
Telling of the hardships of one COM
mand which had just arrived from
Cuba he said: 'HThey were not the he
roes, being only regulars
He said the privations of the war
We're not so serious as Indian cam
paigns he had been engaged in. There
has been occasions when his command
had had to live on corn, and others
when there was nothing to be had ex-
cept horse meat or burro meat.
But that" he said, was not in the
newspapers"
He was satisfied that most of the
complaints against the camp were IN
founded. Many of these complaints
were made by men and women who
had never seen men in camp. Appre-
ciating the situation the soldiers had
played it on" the visitors, making
complaints that were without founda-
ton, in order to get delicacies. Sol
diers like to be made babies Of he
said, and some Of them got so that
they would not eat their regular ra-
tions.''
General Young concluded his testi-
mony with the statement that the SOL
diers were far better cared for than
they had been in the civil war.
SELECTION OF CAMP SITES.
The adjutant general of the army has
furnished the war investigating COM
| mission a statement showing the au-
thority upon which the camps occupied
during the war with Spain, were Sc
| lected. 1t shows that General Miles To-
Gated the camps at Chickamauga, Ga. :;
Fernandina and Miami, Fla, and Camp
Alger, Va; that General Lee selected
that at Jacksonville and General Mer-
riam that at Camp Merritt and that
the other camps, except that at Tampa,
were located by boards of officers. The
report says that a permanent camp
was never contemplated at Tampa, but
for embarkation, on recommendation of
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