The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-23
$4,000 MEN.
a Big Army is Now Encamped at
Chickamauca

Chickamauga Park, Tenn, June %
No orders of any kind affecting the
the present status of Gen. Brooke's
army have been received and the work
of preparing the men for the field is
going forward rapidly and satisfac-
torily.
There are now at the park 1900 men
and those are being added to daily by
from 500 to 700 recruits. Yesterday
and last night the largest number yet
to arrive in one day came in, there be-
ing about 1900 arrivals.
Including the payments to the
Twelfth New York, this week, it is
estimated that $1,000 has been paid to
volunteers at Chickamauga since the
army mobilized here.
The regular government pay day for
many of the regiments is approaching
and some of the regiments have been
mustered in for more than thirty days
and nave not yet been paid. Work
on the pay rolls will begin in a few
days.
Everything is now moving smoothly
at the park. The men are all contented
and are working with a will. The quar-
termaster's department has been thor
oughly Systematized, so that there IS
no longer the slightest difficulty for the
men to get plenty good wholesome food
Regiments are nearly all equipped
with new uniforms and are now being
armed as rapidly the guns can be
turned out of the arsenal. Other need
ed small equipments are oe1ng aeded
army will be the best equipped OF any
to go into the field.
For the first time in the history of the
army of the United States an ambu-
lance corps is being organized as new
adjunct to it's efficiency. England,
Germany and France have such corps
in their armies, but it is new under
taking for this government. The OBJ
ject of this organization is to facilitate
the proper handling of the sick and
wounded on the field. The corps win
surgeons and stewards, which. with a
full supply of attendants, will Number
$50. They have 25 ambulances, %
horses and 76 mules, together with wag-
ons and harness for moving their equip
age. There is a driver and an orderly
for each ambulance. Major McCumber
of the Fourteenth New York, chief SUR
geon of the corps, is physician who
was for a number of years the superin-
tendent of Kings county insane asylum.
Major McCumber's practice of late has
been such as to peculiarly fit him for
his OnerOuS duties as chief surgeon.
The chaplainS of nearly all of the varf-
Gus regiments now encamped al Chicka-
manga park have begun a very vigorous
crusade against the many regimental can
teens or saloons. The fight is as yet in
unrelentingIy and if the chaplains can OBJ
tain the cooperation of the army officials
the canteens will soon be thing of the
Lieutenant Colonel Adams of the Fourth
Ohio was today named as brigadier officer
of the day in the Second brigade. First
division First army corps He will con-
tinue as brigade officer for one week. Ma
jor Thomas F. Lynch, First battalion,
Sizlty-ninth New York. and Lieutenant
John Devane, company NJ, who were left
here quite sick when the regiment depart
ed for Tampa, have about recovered and
expect to go to Tampa soon.
Cool, clear weather again prevails to-
day. Regimental drills are going on in
all camps, but no unusual maneuvers are
taking. place. The sham battle of the
First division, Third corps, to be given I'M
der the direction of General Fred Grant,
next Saturday, promises to be the event
of the week. The best of order now pre-
walls throughout the camp. The provost
guard placed at Lyle by General Brooke
is having excellent effect.