The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-18
The observation-disclosures In
One of the Crack Regiments.
INCIDENTS At TAMPA, FLA.
THE JOURNALS CORRESPONDENT
AND THE SHREWD PRESS CENSOR.
Colonel Studebaker's Men Now Sup
piled with Good MuIes-Many Re-
cruits at ChiclSamauga.

CAMP ALGER, Va, June 17.-There was
an inspection of the Second Division hos
pital by the surgeon general to-day. DR..
Standard was highly con1plimented for the
condition of the hospital and the arrange
ments. DR.. Hawkins, of Brazil, has gone
home on short leave His health has
not been of the best, and he will take a
rest. Bandmaster Shirts has requested a
furlough in order to go home for ten days.
The medical department has decided that all
of the ailments in this camp are caused by
the water, and so reported tonight Sick
ness is plentiful but only slight
The attorney general has decided that Off
GERS of the volunteer army. who hold civil
offices at home need not lose their positions
at home Major Fee, of Greencastle, is the
only officer in the regiment affected by the
decision. He was elected cityo clerk after
having been called into service? He has a
deputy filling the position and has never
doubted that he had the right to hold both
positions
Talk about your gold mines! L. c. Camp
bell, on whose farm the greater part of
Camp Alger is located, has a bonanza that
beats many Klondike mine. He receives
$500 a month for rent of the ground, and
this is but a small part of it, When the
soldiers came they found much of the open
ground covered with brush and wild ber-
ries and the timber land a regular tangle
of underbrush. All of this has been changed
The camp and drill ground is cleared and
leveled down, the timber has been cleared
until it resembles the ordinary Indiana
farm The wood which the men cut in
clearing up the timber is gathered by Mr.
Campbell and sold to the government for
fire wood at So Der cord. Where only dirty
surface springs furnished the water supply
for the farm there are dozen artesian
water wells with an endless water supply.
Then there are suffers privileges that Mr..
Campbell sells. which have brought him
much revenue. Taking it all together, Mr..
Campbell does not think the war is such
bad thing after all.
There has been an announcement from the
adjutant that a branch postoffice has been
opened the ground. This is not true as
yet. l asked a postoffice official to-day re-
garding the office and he said that it had
not yet been located Meantime stamps are
a luxury, and one might as well send mer-
chandse as money orders or drafts to the
camp. They cannot be turned into money
by the men. One man has written home
requesting his next remittance to be sent
in the form of cash or even postage stamps,
as they can be sold very easily. A man
with a check. draft or money order is as
badly busted" as if he had nothing In
order to remedy this 1T will be necessary
to establish several branch offices in the
camp.
Falls Church. the nearest small town of
any size near Camp Alger, takes it's name
from an old brick church which stands
about the center of the place 1t is over
half a century old and during the war was
used as a cavalry stable in part and hos
pital for wounded soldiers. The building
has been repaired in recent years, but still
bears marks of hard usage during the civil
war. The village has a handsome main
street flanked on each side by rows of
stately trees and well-kept lawns. Many
Washington people have suburban homes
in Falls Church, and the ladies have found
that church social is a paying enterprise
these days. The officers of the several regi-
ments never fail to receive notice of pros
pectiVe social.
The Second Division hospital is well es-
tablished at present, although not yet
of being present tonight when Colonel
Girrard, chief surgeon of the Second Army
Corps, was making his evening call. He
operation with more dispatch than any in
the corps, all of which was due to Dr. T.
c. Stunkard, with the full cooperation of
Colonel Barnett. He said that if all regi-
mental commanders were like that of the
ne-hundred-and-fifty- ninth the hospital
department would have been ready long
ago. There has been much publicity given
to controversy among the surgeons in this
army. 1t is safe to wager that Colonel
Girrard will win out on every point under
discussion. He is thoroughly conversant
with the work he has at hand, and his plans
will be carried out in the end without
amendment.
You would hardly know the old First
Regiment now. Under the careful hand
ling of Colonel Barnett it has advanced
rapidly until it is complimented on all
sides. The men are fast coming to realize
that discipline makes the work easier for
them in the end and makes them better
men as well as soldiers. This fact is true
of few officers who have also been in
clined to criticise in a quiet way Colonel
Barnett is careful and exacting in car
ing for the men as he is in matters of drill,
etc, and his popularity will grow with each.
Major Hammond. who paid the regiment
this week. stated that it was the best be-
haved set of men he had yet paid in the
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