The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-14
AT CHICKAMAUGA PARK.
Regimental and Battalion DriIIs--The
YeIIOW-FeYer scare.

AehOW-rcNeF SSAFcs
CHICKAMAUGA CAMP, Ga, June 1S.-
Regimental and battalion drills were the
order of the day. The Fourteenth New
York was Inspected by Inspector Colonel
Slocum. The men were found to be in good
physical condition. and are well equipped
with uniforms but their guns were found to
be very defective, and nine hundred of the
supply on hand were condemned as unfit
for use in actual service. A requsition for
full supply of new guns has been made.
Captain Rockwell, chief of the ordnance de-
partment, expects consignments of arms to
begin arriving tomorrow; and as shipments
are to be made now to this point he thinks
there will be no further delay. and that the
troops will be all equipped within a week
or ten days at the latest.
During the last few days false reports to
the effect that on account of the prevalence
of yellow fever in Mississippi there was a
probability of the army camps here being
moved, have made their appearances in
number of papers. In regard to, these re-
ports a Washington special says: "AlI
inquiries as to whether a change of camp
ing ground is intended in view of the
breaking out of the fever, Adjutant General
Corbin referred to the surgeon general of
the army. Surgeon General Sternberg be-
lTdyGu IlO didEH DIT the pIOSpSSl VI a NlSl-
tation of fever. He had not yet received
any report on the subject, he said, and
until he had nothing would be done. He
dismissed the idea that there was any dam
ger of an outbreak of the fever at Chcka-
mauga as utterly untenable Chattanooga
was health resort and a point to whicn
they were preparing TO send sick and
wounded soldiers in order to get them well.
The only camps which he would admit 1t
might possibly be necessary to change were
those at Tampa, Jacksonville and Mobile.
while no action has been determined on
as yet, it seems unlikely from the trend OF
utterances of department officials to-day
that any change would be made in the
camp at Chickamauga as result Of the
appearance of fever in Mississippi. 1t
seems equally likely, however, that the
camp at Tampa may be abandoned and
that the troops at Mobile will be moved to
some other camp"
The officers here are unanimously of the
opinion that the fever in Mississippi will
have no effect on the camp here. 1t has
been many years since the scourge has APP
peared in this section and the park is con-
sidered to be one of the healthiest places in
the country. The weather conditions at
Chickamauga to-day were more satisfac-
tory than they have been in several weeks.
The morning was cloudy throughout and the
men got through their drills with ease. The
hard rains of yesterday laid the dust in
the park and considerably lowered the tenn
perature.
In case of an emergency 5000 men could
be sent into action from Chickamauga Park.
These would not be entirely equipped, but
in such condition that they could give good
af ha
goes steadily on and the officials are making
strenuous efforts to put the entire army in
condition to respond to any call which may
come. The work of equipping the Cuban
and Philippine armies of invasion has some
what delayed the work here, but from now
on things will move rapidly along this line.
The authorities can now send equipment
here as the other armies are provided for
The First Ohio Cavalry will be sent to
Tampa the last of the week Nothing def
mite can yet be learned in regard to other
regiments moving
Three new general officers began their
duties at the park this morning. They
were Capt f. p. Dutton. commissary de-
partment, who was assigned to the Third
Brigade First Division: Capt. Douglas SUIT
tle assistant adjutant general VINO was
assigned to the First Brigade, First Divl-
sion, First Corps: Capt. Frederick J.
Kountz, assistant adiutant general to the
Third Brigade, First Division. First Corps.
Maj. A. NJ. Fuller. formerly captain in
the regular army Lieut.. Percy Moore. of
st. Louis, and Lieut.. T.. A. Hickman, OF
Lexington Mo-. reported at the park this
morning. All three have been appointed
by Governor Stephens. of Missouri as off,
GERS in the First Missouri Infantry. now
at Chickamauga
Brigader General Oswald L. Ernst. re-
Gently appointed. arrived to-day and report-
ed to General Brooke. He was assigned to
the command OF the First Division of the
First Corps. ~
Timothy Lampre, private Company Il.
Eighth Massachusetts died at the division
hospital this morning from appendicitis He
comes from Amesbury. Mass. is twenty
eight years Of age. and leaves a wife and