The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-24
$4,000 NOW IN CAMP
Chickamauga Park the Scene of
Great Activity.
THEDRILLING OF TROOPS GOES ON.

Soldiers Being Prepared for the Field
Rapidly and Satisfactorily No Longer
Amy Difficulty for the Men to Get Good
and Sufficient Food-Sham Battle To BE
Given Under the Direction of Colonel
Fred Grant.
Chickamauga Park, June 24.-No or
ders of any kind affecting the present
status of General Brookes army have
been received and the work of prepar-
ing the men for the field is going for
ward rapidly and satisfactorily. There
are now at the park nearly forty-seven
thousand men and these are being add
ed to daily by from 500 TO 700 recruits.
Wednesday and Wednesday night the
largest number so far to arrive in one
day came in, there being about 1900
new soldiers in the city.
Including the payments to the
Twelfth New York this week it is es-
timated that $4,000 has been paid to
the volunteers at Chickamauga since
the army was modified here. The reg
ular government pay day for many of
the regiments is approaching. Some
of the regiments have been mustered
in for more than thirty days and have
not yet been paid. Work on the pay
rolls will begin in short time.
Everything Moving Smoothly.
Everything is now moving smoothly
at the park. The men are all content
ed and are working with a good will.
The quartermaster's department has
been thoroughly systematized. so that
there is no longer the slightest diff
Guilty for the men to get plenty of
good, wholesome food. The regiments
are nearly all equipped with new uni
forms and are being armed as rapidly
as the guns can be turned out of the
arsenal. Other needed small equip
ments are being added daily, and II is
now believed that this army will be the
best equipped of any to go into the
field
For the first time in the history of
the army of the United States an am
bulance corps is being organized as a
new adjunct to it's efficiency. England,
Germany and France have such a corps
in their armies, but it is a new under
taking for this government. The OBJ
ject of this organization is to facili-
tate the proper handling of the sick and
wounded on the field. The corps will
have attached TO ii skilled physicians.
| surgeons and stewards. which, with a
full supply of attendants, will number
| $50.
Have Twenty Five a Ambulances.
They have twenty-five ambulances.
| twenty-eight horses and seventy-six
mules, together with wagons and har-
ness for moving their equipage. There
! is driver and an orderly for each am
| bulance Major MacCumber of the
Fourteenth New York. chief surgeon of
| the corps, is a physician who was for a
| number OF years the superintendent of
( Kings county insane asylum. Major
MacCumber's practice OF late has been
such as to peculiarly fit him for his
onerous duties as chief surgeon.
The chaplains of nearly all of the
various regiments now encamped at
Chickamauga Park have begun a very
vigorous crusade against the many reg
| mental canteens or saloons. The fight
| is as yet in its incipiency, but it prom
| ises to be waged with unrelenting Wig
| or, and If the chaplains can obtain the
cooperation of the army officials, the
canteens will soon be a thing of the
past.
Brigade Oficer of the Day.
Lieutenant Colonel Adams of the
| Fourth Ohio was named as brigade Off
| Ger of the day in the Second brigade,
| First division, First army corps. He
will continue as brigade officer for one
week. Major Thomas f. Lynch, First
battalion, Sixty-ninth New York, and
| Lieutenant John Devane, NJ company,
who were left here quite sick when the
regiment departed for Tampa, have
about recovered and expect to go with
| their regiments soon.
Cool, clear weather again prevails.
( Regimental drills are going on in all
camps, but no unusual maneuvers are
| taking place. The sham battle of the
| First division. Third corps. to be given
| under the direction of Colonel Fred
| Grant next Saturday, promises to be
the event of the week. The best of or
| der now prevails throughout the camp.
| The provost guard placed at Lytle by
| General Brooke is having an excellent
| effect.