The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-10
AT CAMP MEADE.
Chief Surgeon Girard Preparing for
the Movement of Troops Southwark.

Chief Surgeon Girard Preparing for
the Movement of Troops Southwark.
CAMP MEADE, B1iddletown, Pa, Oct. o.
Chief Surgeon Girard- u.s. getting ready for
the movement South of the Second Corps.
He will begin tomorrow vaccinating the
troops to guard against outbreaking of
smallpox. The colonel has arranged with
the hospitals of Philadelphia and through
the eastern end of the State to take care
of the sick of the corps AS fast as the
field hospitals fill up the invalids will be
shipped away in a special hospital car pro-
vided by the Pennsylvania road The corps
reserve ambulance company is being re-
cruited up to the latest army regulations
and by the time the movement begins
Colonel Girard expects to have large staff
of trained nurses
Major General Graham has no definite in
formation as to the movement of his COM
mand beyond the orders of Quartermaster
General Ludington to the chief quarter
master to commence the shipment of troops
Oct. o. Colonel Howard is arranging the
details of the movement and expects to
ship two regiments a day-one in the morn
ing and the other in the afternoon. The
officers at corps headquarters believe it will
be the middle of November before the camp
is abandoned and that the programme of the
War Department will not interfere with
General Graham plans to parade a provi-
sional division at the Philadelphia peace
jubilee.
General Graham is opposed to taking his
command South and has requested the War
Department to forward the corps as a unit
to Cuba for duty as an army of occupation.
He is afraid of an outbreak of sickness
among his men If they are taken from the
down in the South for a month and then
shipped to the West Indies. The troops are
in excellent condition and General Graham
thinks if they are shipped direct across the
water there will not be much sickness.
Colonel Girard says the percentage of
typhoid fever. outside of the Two-hundred-
small. The New Workers are still Isolated
in the Conewago hills and will hardly re-
turn to Camp Meade before the latter part
of the next week The sick in the regiment
that have not been sent to city hospitals
are doing nicely and this morning over
500 reported for duty.
The Second West Virginia is scheduled
to arrive tomorrow night from its march
to Gettysburg to attend a dedication of a
regimental monument. Colonel Casteel has
the peace jubilee. This is the only West
Virginia regiment in the command and it
is thought General Graham will make it a
part of the provisional division.
General Davis has reviewed the findings
of the general court martial in the case
of Major Charles r. Parke, of Scranton,
who was tried for alleged refusal to re-
ceive descriptive lists of patients delivered
to the Second Division hospital when he
was in charge. and will probably make them
known tomorrow in general orders Parkes
friends are confident he will be acquitted
and restored to his position as surgeon in
General Corbins brigade. The major is at
his home on a thirty days leave and will
not return to camp until the findings of the
court have been made known