The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
Movement to the New Camps at Knox
VILE and Lexington Not Likely
to Begin for Ten Days.
GENERAL SHIFTING OF TENTS
10th INDIANA STILL RESTING AT
THOROUGHFARE GAP.
Preparations at Camp WfkOR for
Skaters Fever-Infected Army
Whereabouts of the I61st Indiana.

CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ca, Aug. 12-
The shifting of camp from wooded lands
to open fields was still in progress to-day,
number of regiments having changed their
location. This is one of the important steps
in the plan to better the sanitary condi-
tions of Camp Thomas and to promote the
health of the soldiers. While arrangements
to move the Second and Third divisions
of the First Corps from this camp are in
progress, no time will be lost to make the
conditions more favorable for the two di-
visions that are to remain. The work that
Is now being accomplished along this line
amounts to an admission that the facilities
for maintaining high degree of health
have not been what they should have been.
While there has been no lack of interest
on the part Of the men in charge, they have
often been hampered in their undertakings
sometimes for want of material and again
for want of direct authority That this has
been the case has developed in the crowded
condition and the inadequate accommoda-
tons of the division hospitals. These con-
oitions have at last received recognition
and there is now an active movement on
foot for more hospital room and for better
accommodations generally. The unsanitary
conditions that have been found to exist
should not be COMPOUNDED with the natural
conditions at this great national camping
ground, for the reason that repeated investi-
cations have shown that the fever existing
among the soldiers here is due solely to IN
discretions and to the failure on the part
of the commands to follow strictly the
army sanitary regulations.
AS to marching to the new camping
grounds, there is a difference of opinion
among the regimental commanders and
other officers. Some think it would be an
ideal undertaking. while others think the
soldiers are not in condition to stand such
a long march. If left to the enlisted men
the idea OF marching would be in poor IA
VO;.
1t is now the general opinion that the
TWO divisions ordered to new camps will
remain here at least ten days longer: The
new camps selected are being inspected by
special officers, and no more will be made
until they report and their reports are
missary of subsistence of the local army
supply depot, and Captain Mcdowell local
quaTt fa1aS are making preparations to
new camps will be supplied entirely from
the Chattanooga depot.
Work is now progressing rapidly on the
large reserve hospital at Chickamauga. Il
was first intended to arrange this hospital
Tor eight hundred patients, but it is now
the he intention to make the accommoda tons
suttlcient for one thousand. The hospital
will be complete in a very short time
The paymasters have finished their work
at Camp Thomas and gone to other camps
farther south. The work here was finished
much earlier than at first expected, the
trained paymasters getting through the reg
iments with great rapidity. The money left
in the camp. as usual. is causing consider
able disorder, but q strong provost guard
Is preventing any serious consequences
Private Dye Company M First West Vir-
ginia, was mortally wounded to-day by the
accidental discharge Of his gun while he was
on guard DUTY