The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-09-22
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Surgeon to Administer to-
Human Beings.
MCKINLEY APPOINTED HIM

mChINhh1 hEGOlNIED HIM
And Now the Attempt Is Made to Shift
the Burden On Some One Else So That
Aiger's Friend Tayler May BE
Elected to Congress Again.
A good deal has been said by those
trying to defend the administration and
elect Robbie Tayler, a friend Of Alger,
to congress again, that the young men
who responded to the call Of their
| country and went out to fight Spain have
no reason to oomplsin, because they
ought to expect hardships. They say
that war is not picnic and that there
was 40 excuse for the lack of supplies
because moving troops in an enomy's
country had great difficulty in getting
their supplies mp to them In time. That
is all very clever, but how about the
camps in the United States, not movable,
but connected by several railroads with
the richest country in the world and the
great st markets the world knowsH
DR.. Christensen, rector Of st. Paul S
Episcopal cathedral, of indianapolis, the
most important church of that denomina-
tion in Indiana, was the chaplain of the
15Sth Indiana in peace times, and when
war was declared his congregation voted
him six months vacation aud. he
accompanied his regiment to Chick,
amaug7. Speaking of his experiences he
says:
ave did not object to ordinary hard.
ships and privations. We prided our.
selves on not being fathered soldiers
We were willing to sleep anywhere or not
at ALL to eat anything or nothing at all
but we did object to being put down there
and weakened, debilltated and invalided
for life, all on account Of the incom.
potency of certain brigade and division
quartermasters and commissaries.
ut was as bad or worse In the medica,
department. When we went to Chick
amauga we found that our corps surgeon
the man who was the general-in ief Of
} the medical service of 35, 900 men, was q
veterinary surgeon who had never
praoticed among human beings. -. Presi
dent Mckinley appointed him.
The corps was entirely out of medlca
and surgical supplies. There were no
enough surgical instruments on hand to
open boil. There was no quinine-non
Of the ordinary, every day remedies
When we made requisition for them; ;w
were told bluntly that we would have t,
rustic for ITEM. went to the division
hospital every day, and the sights an,
= sounds and smells that one came In con
s tact with there made 1t resemble perfec
3 lazarett.
"It makes me sick to think of Cam
Thomas. Day after day 1 would ris
4 early In the morning and trudge over t
the division hospital, only to see new face
and to find that the sipk were gettin
worse all the time. In some case
physicians had forty patients.
:. "When We left. Chickamauga 70
Knoxville we had about one hundre
sick men. We went to division head
quarters and asked for ambulances. The
> had ambulances not In use, but the
refused to furnish any. The result wa
. that.we had to scour the country for con
f veyanoes and few of us went down II
our pockets and paid the bill. Peopl
Y don't have to exaggera-tethe truth:is ba
I ohOuBu' nhuy sClulSrs uleu III CdInp
the result of lack of medical attention
, and the Incompetence of medical officers.
when we arrived at Knoxville wa
, aooosted by DR.. Herself, division
surgeon and one of the few good medlca
officers, thus: We are In Gods countr,
, now; Chickamauga was hell. He di
not speak irreverently when he said this
/ There has been no desire amonl
responsible parties to uncover facts
, When Chaplain Dolley Of the Eight
New York was asked by Ben G. Boyntol
3 before the latter handed in his white
, washing report if he would state tn
facts as he knew them on the witnes
stand, the chaplain he was not onl,
willing but anxious g. tell all he knew
He never heard from Boynton again"
Givs the children a Drink
called Grain-O. 1t is delicious, appetiz