The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-06
NO CHANGE AT CAMP THOMAS
GEN. WADE'S REGIMENTS WAITING
FOR ORDERS TO MOVE.
Signal Corps Paid Of and to Leave
for the Front on Monday-Cause
of Typhoid Fever.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CLIFTON STATION. Va, Aug. 5.--The
Second Division of the Second Army Corps
is encamped tonight about two miles from
Clifton, Va. Last night was spent in a ter
rible rainstorm at Burke's Station and al
most every man was wet through before
morning. Before daylight the march was
resumed with General Sheaf's brigade in
the lead The roads were very bad, but by
1920 the next stop al Clifton was reached
without a loss. The One-hundred- fifty
ninth Indiana did not lose more
than dozen men during the march,
and all of them were able for
duty later in the day. The camp at
this point will be maintained, it is thought
till Monday, owing to the shortage of
rations. The men have been on short
rations for twenty-four hours and many
were without food to-day other than that
which was foraged by them. A result is
that many people suffered sadly in the
vicinity of camp. If rations are received
tomorrow the march will continue at once
to Manassas, otherwise the troops will not
be moved until Monday. General Davis has
no definite orders as to where his COM
mand is going. He expects to stop over at
Manassas Junction, but may continue mov-
ing for some time. The health of the men
in the One-hundred ed-and- fifty ninth Indiana
is excellent.
The camp last night at Burke's Station
was within sight of the historical ground
over which the battle of Bulls Run was
fought. That is the bulk of the One-hun-
dred-and-fifty- ninth was there. The rest was
scattered along the road between there and
the late Camp Alger. Fully one-half of the
troops, with their system filled with the
malaria, gathered in the protracted camp in
the most miserable spot perhaps in the en-
tire country, were not able to keep up with
the main body and are still dropping into
camp in squads. Some will be brought in
on the ambulance. The manner in which
the men went down under the heat of the
first days march shows the wisdom of the
authorities in moving the camp. 1t is gem
orally accepted as a fact that a longer
stay at Camp Alger would have disabled the
whole command. Several weeks ago this
brigade made much harder march to Diff
cult Run and less than thirty men fell out
from exhaustion. Wednesday the same bri-
gade lost hundreds of it's best men, OF
course the heat had something to do with it,
but not all.
The camp at Burke's Station was pitched
upon an elevation. The men waxed bolster
ously enthusiastic over the first sight of a
passenger train. Most of them have not
seen a train for three months Major
Stunkard said yesterday morning that seven
men of the Observation-Disclosures d-fifty-ninth had
been sent back to the hospital at the old
camp. There We're no serious cases outside
of these and the men were feeling fine after
the long march. The division lost more men
than did Dewey in his first great sea fight
Five men died from the effects OF the heat
in this division; none of them were from
this brigade.
Colonel Barnett was not able to come on
with the regiment and is not to be moved
for several days yet, when he will come on
by rail. The wagon train did not follow
the regiment promptly as was expected,
and most of the officers slept out in the
open without cover as a result G. w. B.