The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-05
He Nursed His Cousin, Chaplain Med-
bury, on the Way Home and Con-
ceaIed His own Illness.
SUNDAY At THE HOSPITAL
DOUBLE GUARD TO KEEP VISITORS
FROM OVERWHELMING PATIENTS.
A Thousand or So of Relatives and
Friends Came in ON the
Excursions.

The Twenty-eighth Indiana Battery, OF
Fort Wayne, has arrived at the state fair
grounds. The battery left its camp at
Chickamauga at o'clock Friday night and
reached the Indianapolis Union Station at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. At o'clock
! the train on which the battery had come
from Chickamauga drew up on the track at
the west side of the fair grounds. Arrange
ments were made Immediately for sleeping
quarters for the battery in one of the build
ings and the Fort Wayne boys We're snug
and comfortable In sleeper on the train
We're seven men sick with fever and two
who were suffering from being kicked by
animals. One of them, Frank North, has a
broken thigh. The other is Francis Coyle
Of Peru. One was injured by an army mule
The sick men are all of Fort Wayne; George
Ravel, Perle Carl Charles Geake, Harry
Eckert. Joseph Seamon, Fred Sovile and
Paul Zimmerman. Clyde Whiteleather was
left at Chickamauga He is suffering with
malarial fever and is in a more serious con-
dition than any of the Others 1t is expected
that he will be able to come home before
| long, Four of the cases brought home are
| typhoid.
This battery has had what might be called
a pleasant outing. 1t got no farther south
| than Chickamauga and it was well cared
for there. Its camp was better situated
than almost any other. AT no time did it
suffer for lack of water. There was little
sickness among the boys. When it started
| for home it was supplied with two days
| travel rations. 1t s'coffeed" at CHATTANOOGA
| at Nashville and at Louisville, and when it
reached the Union Station in this city menu
| bers of the Ladies' Aid Society were wait
| ing with sandwiches and hot coffee fo4 the
tired soldiers. The women impressed on the
boys the fact that Mayor Tagart is bash
full man, for it was his generosity that pro-
vided sandwiches and coffee. The boys are
grateful to Mr. Taggart. The battery haa
little cause for complaint of it's treatment
at the Chickamauga camp. One soldier was
even worried when he was told the battery
would camp in one Of the buildings over
night. because as he said, 1T may not have
a board floor" He was relieved when told
the buildings floor was Of boards. The
contrast between the experience of this bait
terry and the Observation-Disclosures -ffty-seventh
Regiment is striking. The One-hundred-
and-fifty-seventh Regiment has lost sixteen
men. more than one to company and the
rest of the regiment is full of malaria. The
battery has ia men. has not lost one, IS
healthy and has had a good time at camp
1t will move into tents near the camp of the
One-hundred-and- -fifty-seventh to-day. DE-
Rabus and DIR. Ranke, brother of Captain
Ranke, are attending the sick of the bat
| terry.
SUNDAY WITH THE SICK.
| All the sick of the Twenty-eighth Battery
| were taken out to the camp hospital. DR..
| o. S. Runnels. who is acting for the State,
believes that the conditions out there are
more favorable than the downtown institu-
tions. He does not believe any of these
cases will have a fatal termination. It is
probable several other fever cases in the
regiment will develop. He said the battery
was in much better shape physically than
| the Studebaker regiment. which underwent
more exposure, although the battery had no
physician of its own at Chickamauga and
was compelled to depend on a haphazard
service there. Several OF the sick men who
were in one of the Chickamauga hospitals
for three weeks say they were given prac-
tically no attention.
Sunday was trying day with the sick at
camp. Dr. Runnels obtained double
| guard for the hospital and would admit no
one except on a pass signed by the COM
manding officer. which pass had to be coun-
tersigned by Lieutenant Garstang or the
medical officer of the day. Even with this
much trouble was experienced. some of the
! friends slipping in tobooed delicacies while
the doctors were not watching. The three
doctors on duty under DR.. Runnels and As
sstant Surgeon Garstang during the day are
Drs. F. c. Stewart, w. T. S. Dodds, G. C.
Schaffer, one Of them rotating as medical
officer of the day. Dr. d. w. Layman is
on the night relief, and he is assisted by the
medical officer of the day.
DR.. Runnels says the other Indiana regi-
ments, so he understands, are to be camped
| just west of the misunderstanding
seventh Regiment. BY placing these regi-
ments together the hospital organization
will be more effective. He does not believe
the camp could be better situated While
it might be advantageous to move the camp
! frequently, where regiments are to remain
| in service for a considerable while he
| doubts the expediency of such a plan here
| at home. Besides, such elaborate hospital
! arrangements as have been made at the
fair grounds cannot be readily changed at
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