Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-09-16
ARMY ABUSES.
Appalling Testimony at Investi-
CATION.
Omcers and surgeons at Chickamaugn
Are criticised.


Are criticised.
The military board appointed by Maj
Gen. G. G. Breckenridge 10 investigate the
alleged abuses practised on soldier patients
in the second division hospital, Third
army corps, at Camp Thomas, In it's report
already submitted censurps The highest ia
authority, from gen. Brooke down 10 Di-
vision surgeon j. NJ. JENNIE, Maj Surgeon
!. Vain, Il. H. fl, Major Surgeon
Hubbard and the various and numerous
contract surgeons.
The report is signed boy Major and B.i-
gade Surgeon NJ. b Ward, Maj. ). j.
johnson. Second Arkansas volunteers.
and Major L > Hellburn, Second Ken.
lucky volunteers Mai Ward was chair
man Of the board and Maj Hellourn re-
corder.
The testimony submitted with the report
Is voluminous, and nearly all Of it is in
line with the worst charges of mismanage-
ment aud neglect that have been made.
Some of this testimony follows
Private ;. l. Hinton, of the First Miss
issippi regiment said:-I volunteered to
come over here to nurse III mbers of my
company. While in the typhoid fever
ward, l saw helpless patients lying covered
with flies with no one 10 help them. ! re-
member a man from the Ninth New York,
in ward {. He was covered with insects.
| had four tents 10 look after, in which
were ~ patients. / have seen patients 90
from the evening of one day until the noon
of the next without ice or medical atteu-
ton The water used was from Chlcka-
manga Greek Il was warm
Private NJ. A Hill test,des:
have heard patients call for half an
hour for a nurse and fail TO receive a reply.
] hav" seen nurses asleep on du.y, and
have repeatedly heard men call for water
aud ice. and no attention was PAID 10 their
calls
Several nurses testified that patients
were hl,hy because there were not enough
nurses 10 keep them clean, and no orders
were given to wash them, and there were
no means whereby they might be washed.
They Testify that the bodies Of men were
/ tyDlown and disgustingy dirty.
Here is the testimony OF Lieutenant
Powers OF the > Ky:
found men lying on litters on the
ground between the cots. The men ! Wis
tied told me they had not had their clothes
of in all the time they had been IN the
hospital. and rarely ever had the oppor
tuuity to wash their faces. The men spat
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