The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26
Some Apprehension Felt that All the
to Fight with General Brooke.
CAMP ALGER NOT HEALTHY
TYPHOID FEVER THE MOST PREV
ALENT AND WORST DISEASE.
Location of Regiments to BE Changed
The 18th Indiana still Waiting
for Orders at Tampa.


eral Corbin tonight made public a state
ment of the progress made in the organiza-
tion Of the regular and volunteer armies OF
the United States up to and including July
"a. In the ninety days which have elapsed
since the President issued his first call for
volunteers an army of 261, 400 men has been
recruited, mustered, equipped and placed in
the field an achievement that has ELECTED
surprise and admiration from the best in.
formed military authorities of Europe
The personnel of the army is far superior
to that of any body of men hitherto raised
for military purposes by the United States.
Every man recruited whether for the reg
ular or for the volunteer army, has under
gone careful physical examination, con-
Quoted by disinterested and competent off,
GERS. As a general proposition, therefore,
the army is physically without flaw. Quite
naturally, the requirements for the regular
service are more rigid than those for the
volunteers because recruits for the regular
army, being considered merely as individ-
uals, are obliged to undergo a more severe
examination than the volunteers, many Of
whom are taken into the service as organ-
izations. The statement indicates that only
one in four applicants for admission to the
regular army was accepted by the muster
ing officers and medical examiners. In this
way a notably high class of men has been
secured for the army.
OF the 216,50O volunteers authorized by
Congress. 212OOO have been placed in the
field, nearly all Of them fully equipped. In
a few days the entire volunteer army will
be thoroughly organized into regiments,
brigades, divisions and army corps. The
aptitude for military discipline and in
struction which the volunteers have evinced
has created surprise among the representa-
tives of foreign governments with the
United States army. They agree that the
Americans are the finest soldiers in the
world. Following is the consolidated state
ment made by Adjutant General Corbin:
April 2O-Joint resolution approved recog-
nizing Cuban independence.
April 22-Approval of act for increasing
the military establishment.
April 23-Presidents proclamation, first
call for 12500O volunteers.
April 25-Act declaring that war existed
between the United States and Spain.
April 26-Approval of act for increase of
the regular army.
April 27-General orders issued providing
for increase of regular army
May 11-Act approved to provide for vol
unteer brigade Of engineers not to exceed
not to exceed 10000.
April 22-Strength of regular army. in
cluding increase ........................61,0 81, 900
April 3O-Actual. strength of reg
ular army ..........................26 $500
Recruits obtained to include
July "A .........,..,................ .24.900
400
Leaving total lof............. 49,4O0
July 24-Balance of recruits required
for regular army ....................... II 500
April 2S-Strength of volunteers called
out .................... .............., 200
Special United States volunteer cav
airy .................. ..................s 5000
May 11-Brigade United States volun-
teer engineers .......................... $500
Ten regiments of immunes.............. 10000
May 25-Second call. all.....................7 5000
Total volunteer rmy.................... .2l6.5OO
July 4-Present strength to date Of
volunteer army physically examined,
enrolled, mustered into United
States service and for most part
equipped ............. ................ PIE, 900
July 24-Balance of recruits required
for volunteer rmy................4 400
Balance of recruits required for reg
ular army ..s......................... 1900
Total recruits required. 16,1O0
July 24-Total strength to date of reg
ular and volunteer armies. Psi 100
Aggregate .............. .............., .277 500
Note-The above figures do not include
signal and hospital corps men. respectively.
The 24,90O recruits obtained for the increase
Of the regular army. authorized after war
was declared to exist, We're selected from
about 100000 applicants by limited num-
ber of recruiting officers but lily spared
from their respective regiments, and, for
the most part, strangers in the country
canvassed, and during period of compete
tion by state authorities for the same men.
Returns win show progressive increase
as this competition ceases.