The Portland daily press., 1898-08-27

while in a weak, slow voice he said:
"I'm all right, mother, I'm not going to
the hospital, I'm just waiting for hack
to tate me home. Don't cry mother, I'm
all right tell you.
A young man was there waiting 60 see
if his brother might not be on the traih'
When the boy went away, the iaso 'hihs
he saw, as the train pulled out from tne
Union station, was his father in dehd
faint. Today the father lies at the poinO
of death and is waiting only to see ms
boy home from Chickamauga before ne
goes to his long account The boy olo no0
come today, but when he gets here ool'
Kendall will undoubtedly grant him per
mission to 60 to his fathers bedside WILL
out proceeding to Augusta.
There was one man who was lett Oh
the train by mistake when it departed
from Chickamuga and that was W. d.
Roberts, Jr., of Biddeford. He was ex-
pected ON a later train.
There were seven soldiers who did not
come ON the hospital train. They are
members of the First regiment, but they
were too sick to be moved, and it was
thought best to leave them for awhile in
the hospital at Chickamauga. They are
Lieut.. Savage, Capt. Lovejoy, W. g..
Osborn, Whitman, Bartlette, Bray and
Seaman.
Lieut.. Lord was allowed on arrival to
90 to his home. Mr.. Frank B. Spear
accompanied Lieut.. Lord to his home.
LIEUT. Frank B. Harris Of Biddeford.
uuartermaster of the regiment, was one
of the sick ones who left the train at that
city. Corporal Frank Shapleigh and
Privates Frank Evans, Patrick Blake,
George McKenney, Joseph Hurd, Ralph
Prescott, Thomas Reddy, Edward Pain
chaud, Arthur Cote, James johnson.
Michael Holland and Fred Bryant. all
members of Co. q, sick with fever, we're
taken from the train to their homes at
| Biddeford.
Gen. Richards left at p. m. yesterday
| for Augusta. He wants to thank Mayor
Randall and the Portland people general
" for the hearty support and aid they
have given in taking care of and helping
the sick men.
Something should certainly be said In
regard to the condition of the sleeping
cars which made up the troop trai n. Per-
feet ventilation could not be expected,
| but better sanitary arrangements could
be asked for with reason. The cars were
in just the condition of the common emil
tab r11ya 10 70 GQnodi =,
border, and were as inadequate for the
conveyance Of four sick soldiers as the
hospital accommodations are said to have
been in the southern camp.
There were in the train of nine cars
three coaches which were reasonably clean
the officers. The water had to be carried
on the platforms of the cars in barrels.
Many of the men were lacking in uni
forms and shoes. Private Coolidge Of Co.
B, said that he had been a month at
Chickamauga without receiving a uni.
form. He also claimed the food was un-
fit to eat.
Lieut.. Col. Morton, who was on the
train, A said: 'The northernfair hasfre-
vived ME tremendously. I ought to tell
you of our enthusiastic reception at
Washington by the ladies Of the penion
office. 1t was rare in my experience. The
ladies brought everything imaginable
which could be of use to the sick aboard
the train. Everything went to revive the
spirits of the men and help them on the
road to recovery. Pretty girls went
through the train, and the hands of the
sick soldiers were shaken, and many q
feyered brow wiped and many cooling
drink of ice water moistened the lips Of
the poor lads. AS for flowers, why we
were literally deluged with them.
"Dr. Eliot" continued Lieut.. Col.
Morton, "did the best possible with the
supplies at hand. OF our life at Chioka-
manga Park. it is becoming in me to say
only that we did what the government
required. We have never asked to be sent
home; that Is the doing Of some body else.
1t is, true that in a few weeks many of US
would be acclimatsd to the malaria. In
! immune to that country; but the state
very thoughtfully attended to getting
home as rapidly as possible those whom
tn, regiment surgeons thought needed
the change of air and food and the com.
forts of home"
An officer of the regiment, who, for
obvious reasons, could not permit the use
of his name, made this emphatic state
ment: "lhs hospital at the new and
the old camp is practically the same.
am not exaggerating it bit when I say
that the arrangements have been
damuable The greatest lack was in the
matter of medical attendance, skilled sur.
aeons being few for SO large a number OF
men. The government has also made the
great mistake in this war of not putting
in skilled female nurses, and the policy
of the government has been carried out
rigidly, with the results that you see all
about you on this troop train laden with
DEATH"
| Lieut.. Atkins, company D, Norway
| who was away assisting his sick COM
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