Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
ON LAND AND SEA.
Bits Of News from Our Gallant Soldiers and
Sailors.

| The United States transport Hudson ar
rived at New York. Tuesday morning.
| from Montauk, having landed 600 men OF
| the LIST District of Columbia.
| One hundred and eight fever-stricken
soldiers of the 65th New York Regiment
reached Buffalo at noon. Tuesday. on a
special train from Dunn Loring. Va.
| The war department was notified.
Tuesday, of the death of Col. J. ]. Van
| Horn, OF the Sth United States Infan-
| try at Fort Russell.
The case of the Cuban filibuster steamer
Bertha has been closed at Kingston, ia,
with the sale of the vessel intact as she
| Is lying at Port Antonio. for 81. 500. to a
shipping firm of Kingston, in behalf OF
her Boston owners.
| Gen. H. v. Boynton. ordered by the war
| conditions at Camp Thomas, Chicka-
manga. and report thereon, has completed
! his report and forwarded it to Washing
| ton. The report is favorable on nearly
every matter investigated.
| The Pennsylvania state hospital train
sent to Chickamauga under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania sanitary commission,
| arrived at the West Philadelphia station
of the Pennsylvania Road at Philadel-
phia, Tuesday. having on board a number
| of sick soldiers whose homes are located
in that city and vicinity.
| Privates Hiley and ]. F. Kitterick of
Co. NJ, 1st Missouri Regiment Volunteers.
| both of st. Louis who had been in Chat
| tanooga. Monday. without leave, got on
| top of passenger train for Chicka-
manga Park. at II p. NJ, Monday. They
| were struck by low bridge. Hiley was
Instantly killed and kitterick is missing.
Ernest l.. Tosca. who has been con-
| nected with the Havana consulate for
six years. ana was General Lees secre-
! tary fer three years. has been desig-
mated to go to Havana with the Cuban
| military commission as one of its Sec
retaries.
| The United State monitor Lehigh, in
tow of the government tug Piscata-
quis, arrived at Philadelphia from
Boston at League Island navy yard,
Tuesday. The Lehigh is manned by
Massachusetts naval reserves She
will be dismantled. @;t i--.
| The hospital train of the Sth New York
Volunteers passed through Syracuse. n.
| Y, at $40 A. NJ, Tuesday, on the way to
New York. When the train arrived there
| the entire supply of ice and water was
| exhausted and 1t took Is minutes to get a
| fresh supply. Some of the men were
delirious and they were being taken care
| Of by the stronger men in the party.
The U. s. s. vicksburg. Commander
4. II. Lille. arrived at the Kittery
navy yard. Tuesday. She will go into
dry dock at once to be Overhauled and
| prepared for service within II days.
The Vicksburg was greeted by many
! steam vessels as she came up the har-
Dor.
Several hundred cots arrived at Camp
Wfkoff. l.. l.. Monday night, and were put
| in the different hospitals. There Is now
enough room to accommodate all the sick.
Mrs. Katharine Dingley. president of the
International brotherhood. a Theosophist
society, has established relief tent.
There are now many dead bodies OF sol
diers waiting to be claimed by their rela-
| tives. *. .s,7.: 1sl ~ $50
| Chaplain Cummings OF the LIST Maine
! Regiment, thinks the system of providing
surgeons for the sick in camp should be
changed SO that the regular surgeons OF
| the regiments be assigned to look after
the sick in their respective regiments.
1.-The folly of appointing Southern sur
| geon to treat Northern man or North
ern surgeon to doctor a Southern man is
| apparent" says Rev. Mr.. Cummings. Il
believe that IL our LIST Regiment men had
! been under the care OF our own surgeon
while In camp, there would have been Tar
less sickness. Lewiston Journal. d,
Governor RamsdeN Of New Hampshire
| received a telegram, Tuesday morning
from Mayor j. E. Tolles OF Nashua, who
was sent to Chickamauga to look after
the interests of the soldiers of that state
stating that 81 sick men of the LIST New
Hampshire Regiment would start fol
home at once on a special hospital train
| furnished by the government. Gov. Rams.
dell has decided. however, not to allow
\ this to interfere with the plan adopted
and the train specially fitted for h0spita
purposes by the state Will be sent tt
Chickamauga to bring home about 10 sicl
men who cannot be accommodated on thu
government train.