New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-26
DAILY LIFE AT CAMP MEADE.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NETWORK REGI
MENTS THE HEALTH OF THE
CORPS is EXCELLENT

Camp Meade, Penn. Sept. 25.-Major Joseph K
Weaver. OF Norristown, relieved to-day
surgeon-nchief Of the Second Division Hospital
and assigned acting surgeon of the division
This change made necessary by the resignation
OF Major Devine. who returns to Boston to resume
his private practice.
Major Charles {. Wiley. Of Pi.tsburg will have
charge OF the hospital until the general court
martial disposes Of the case OF Major Charles r.
Parke Of Scranton. Parke expects he acquitted
and returned to his former position M the hospital
Major Wiley will he relieved in time to he mus
tered out with the 18th Regiment.
Private George Morgan Company T. lst Mary
land. died last night at the Red Cross Hospital of
typhoid fever and his body will be shipped Balti
more. Corporal August Foss. Company II. "a Regi-
ment. OF thc Engineer Corps also succumbed to-day
10 typhoid fever and his body Will probably be
inferred in the National cemetery at Gettysburg
To prevent the spread Of typnod fever In camp the
203d New-York Regiment which is infected with
the disease. will be isolated from the other troops
There are several hundred cases in the three New
York regiments, which came here recently from
Camp Black. Chief Surgeon Girard says the fever
had its incipiency I'm the New-York camp. and the
sick will be sent to Philadelphia hospitals. The
Red Cross will send hospital train TO camp to-
morrow from Philadelphia TO take away hun
dred patients They will be cared for by the
Woman's Homeopathic Hospital The Reading
Hospital will also send train TO camp for fifty
fever patients. Religious services were held to-
day in many of the regiments, and in many there
was large attendance
Colonel William j. Glenn. OF the l4th Pennsyl-
Varia. has been appointed acting commander OF the
Second Brigade OF the First Division In the absence
OF General Oates who has gone to Alabama on pri-
yate business. Major-Gene Graham issued an
order today consolidating the 18th Pennsylvania
ana the 9TH OHIO Battalion In command OF Colonel
kreps. The new organization will take the place
Of the LIST Delaware in the First Brigade Of the
First Division. and will probably be ordered 10 Cuba
for garrison duty. The battalion is made up en-
trey OF c0Ored troops in command OF Major
Young a graduate OF West Point
Eight companies OF the lst Delaware have received
orders to move tomorrow 70 the grounds vacated
by the 18th Pennsylvania, and as soon as their
muster-out rolls have been prepared they VIII be
forwarded TO their home station for a thirty days
furlough, at the expiration Of which they will be
retired from the service. OF stoves have been
placed In both division hospitals and the flies be-
tween the removed to protect the patients and
nurses from the weather The nights In camp are
cool and many Of the officers are using oil
stoves To keep warm. General Graham expects 70
begin practice march by regiments. They
will march TO n rendezvous within radius OF ten
miles Of the camp and will take with them bag
gage and water wagons and ambuanees for the
STICK. The health ~ the corps, with the exception
~ the NewYork regiment. IL excellent. and unless
there IS change the troops Will stay here until
cold weather. The prospects are that the First
Division will be the first ordered South 10 prepare
for duty I'm the West Indies and the Philippines