The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-22
MINNESOTA NURSES RETURN.
MISS LAMONT TALKS ABOUT CON-
DITIONS IN CHICKAMAUGA
There Has Been Improvement and
Miss Lamont Says, There Was
Room for 1t.

Two Red Cross nurses from Chicka-
manga arrived in this city yesterday
morning, and in the afternoon went to
| their homes in Duluth. They were Miss
La Mont and Miss Margaret Greenfield,
who were appointed to the hospital
service at Camp Thomas, a month ago
Miss Greenfield is sick. from overwork,
and Miss La Mont. accompanied her
back to Duluth. Miss La Mont expects
to return to Chickamauga!
While waiting for their train the
nurses were taken by Mrs. Cora A
Johnson, of this city, to the: Be hel boat
at the foot Of Jackson street, where
they were accommodated with a room
There they were interviewed by a re-
porter for The G | b e.. Miss Green
field was too i'll to talk, but Miss La
Mont was quite willing to speak of af-
fairs at Chickamauga. '
we were attached to Gen. Stern
berg's field hospital" said Miss La
Mont. eve first worked in tents
There are twelve tents In each hospital
section, and each tent accommodates
four patients. Later the patients were
placed in pavilions containing twenty
each. There were at first 100 nurses in
the field hospital but now there are but
120.
Maj. Giffin, of the regular army, who
IS at the head of the hospital service,
is competent officer. The condition
of things in the hospital is all right
now, and the men have all they re-
quire. In the beginning, however, they
did not have all they should have had
THE patients in the field hospital at
ono time numbered 60 but the number
has been reduced to 400. The nurses
and doctors were hampered by lack of
necessary things to work with, but now
they have all they need. d The men did
rot seem to have proper food. The
sick had only the regular army ration
Of hard tack and burned beans, which
they could not eat but now they get
the Red Cross supplies. TIL Sc suppl es
do not reach the well men-only the
sick. I do not know what was done
With the supplies the Red Cross sent for
the regiments. / do not know whether
| the officers got them or not.
There were very few Minnesota men
in the hospital. The Minnesota regi-
ments had less sickness than those
from any other state. Miss Greenfield
and myself were the only Duluth nurses
in the hospital
| Miss La Mont seemed anxious not to
| speak of the Red Cross supply question
She said she did not know anything
about it, but there were several soldiers
+ from Camp Thomas in the union depot
! say about it. One was a regular SOL
/ der, and did not want his name men
|: toned but he told a story which illus
/ trates the methods in vogue at the
| camp.
He said that he received a letter from
his mother notifying him that she had
sent a large box Of food to him. When
! he applied to the proper officer for it he
/ was told the box had arrived, but as he
| was not we'll it was not deemed proper
! to give it to him. The food would make
him worse. He thereupon directed that
| the box be delivered to a corporal in
his company, but when the corporal
! asked for it, he was told that the box
was filled with perishable stuff which
had spoiled and was thrown away. He
reminded the officer that jellies were
| among the articles enclosed in the box
and they were not specially perishable
! but the officer replied that he saw no
| jellies.
The corporal CHANGED to look in tent
where the officers mess was spread,
| and there on the table he saw the iden-
| teal articles described in the letter as
| having been sent to the sick soldier.
! He,waS unable to accuse the officer Of
theft, but he felt like exposing him,
though he knew he would be punished,
| but he concluded to kee~ quiet