Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
MULE DRIVERS FOR NURSES.
An Arkansas Colonel Asserts that They
Did Not Fiji the Bili-War Investigators
Finish Their Work at Anniston, Ala, and
GO to Huntsville.

Finish Their Work at Anniston, Ala, and
go to Huntsville.
Admission. Ala, October 25.-The
war investigating commission yester-
day examined about a dozen wit
nesses, including a number of officers
and men of the regular troops as well
| as number of volunteer officers. The
complaints brought out We're chiefly OF
II trivial nature, the most serious one
being that of Major David Vickers who
attributed the troubles in the camp OF
the Second division of the Third corps,
at Chicamauga, to the shallowness OF
the sinks.
Admission, Ala, Oct. 26.-Dr. X. d.
Boss, assistant surgeon in the First
infantry, was the first witness before
the war investigating commission yes
terday. He was with his regiment
and with the Fourth infantry in Cuba.
He arrived at Santiago on July 10. He
found the medical supplies short and
was unable to secure any of them for
a few days until he learned how to
get them from the division hospital.
Lieut.. Col. Cabell, of the Second
Arkansas, said in reply to questions
put by DR.. Connor that he had OBJ
served a condition of affairs at the
hospital of the Second division of the
Third army corps. in June, which he
considered horrible. He had seen one
sick man lying in the rain without
the protection of even tent fly, and
he had been informed by other officers
that several others had been left in
the same way. He thought the doctors
were honest enough, but they did not
know how to get supplies.
Mule drivers had been used for
nurses and he had been reliably in
formed that many of them were in
the habit of getting drunk and on this
account neglecting their patients.
Maj. Charles F. King, surgeon of the
Fourth Wisconsin regiment, said the
medical supplies Of his regiment were
insufficient and thai there was much
delay in getting acquisitions filled.
He thought there was a sufficient
quantity of food, but said some of the
men would not eat it, preferring to
buy food for themselves.
Dr. Henry II. Lee. major and sur
geon of the Third brigade, First divis-
ion, Third corps, said he had urged
the removal of the camp from Chicka-
mauga because he considered the
water bad and because Of the impossi-
bilty of getting deep sinks.
After the examination of several
other witnesses the commission went
to Huntsville.
Huntsville, Ala. Oct. 27.-The war
commission began the examination of
witnesses yesterday with Gen. Louis
II. Carpenter, who is in command in
Gen. Wheeler'S absence. He had been
at Chickamauga, Tampa and at Fer
nandina before coming here. He said
the camp at Chickamauga was too
crowded. That at Tampa was unsatis-
factory, but it was not intended to
be permanent. That at Fernandina
was ideal. The food supply had been
ample throughout, but quartermas-
ters' supplies were generally slow and
there had been trouble in securing
tents. There was more difficulty in
getting supplies at Tampa than else
where. because of railway congestion.
Maj. Candy, the surgeon who was in
charge of the medical supply depot at
Tampa. said he had been able to fill
all reasonable acquisitions for medical
supplies with promptness, but many
bulky articles for which substitutes
could be had were not supplied. Reg
ular troops were easily satisfied, but
rhe volunteers were eXactng.
\ number of officers who had served
in the Santiago campaign and in Flor
ida were examined Gen. G.. S. Car
penter said the sick at Santiago had
suffered somewhat on account of the
deficiency of medicines and medical
supplies, but this was the only depri-
vation of which he spoke. The troops
did not receive the entire ration while
in the field, but he was sure that no
man in the command had gone
hungry.