The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-24
Mr.. Chenette Comes Home to
Butte Almost a Skeleton.
JACK BROKE HIS ANKLE
He Was Also Sick With a Fever-He
Says Captain Stivers Is All Right
but the Men Expected Too
Many Favors From Him.

among his comrades in the army and
his acquaintance out of it, is home on
a furlough from Camp Thomas. al
Chickamauga park, where his regi-
ment, the Grigsby rough riders, is sta
toned. Young Chenette left Butte,
with Captain Stivers' troop, one of the
healthiest and most robust troopers in
Captain Stivers' command. He has
come home very much changed. His
face is emaciated. his hands are lean
and bony n his skin has a sickly yell
lowish complexion. He looks a very
sick soldier. His present ailment is
pronounced malarial fever. but his con-
dition is due to a long siege in the hos
pital, followed by the fever which at
tackled him the day he started home.
His physician thinks the camp life,
prior to his being sent to the hospital.
insufficient food and lack of proper
sanitation in the camp had much to do
with his present debility.
Chenette's first trouble was a frac-
tured limb. on the goth of july. the
WAGNER of the troop fell sick and Che
nette was detailed to perform his du-
ties. While hauling a heavy load i'm one
OF the government ago the ornery
government mules ran the wagon
against a stump n threw him out
breaking his left ankle. He was sent
to the Letter hospital. where he re-
manned until Aug. IS. At that time, as
he improved very slowly. he was given
a 80 days furlough and sent home TO
recuperate. On the day he left the hos
pital for home, he was k with fever
and arrived home very sick. He has
since been very low at the home of his
mother in Talbot avenue.
DIR. Murray, who is attending him,
does not regard his condition as seri-
Ollg hlt he iG Cn uypalpnaH ~ &c tho,uht
to be very doubtful whether he will be
able to return to his regiment at the
expiration of his furlough should the
troops not be mustered out by that
time. When seen at his home last
evening, Chenette talked with some diff
ficulty of his experiences since he
Joined the army. He was not disposed
to complain, but it was evident they
were not of the r~osiest, and if the boys
of the troop had il to do over again,
it is doubtful if many of them would
offer their services to the govern
ment.
THE boys are all hoping" said he,
that the regiment will be among the
troops mustered out. They've got
enough of soldering for Uncle Sam.
1t was all very well as long as there
was a prospect of getting to the front.
The boys did not grumble much al the
short, and sometimes bad, r~ations, al
though IL did seem, after things got
properly settled, that there was not
much excuse for it. But when ii began
to be apparent they were to be kept
in camp indefinitely, and compelled to
work for army pay. and observe the
strict discipline of the regular soldier, |
the boys commenced to feel dissatisfied. |
and this feeling has grown till the boys
are heartily sick and want to get out
of the service. The whole trouble lay
in keeping the troops so long at Chick
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the front everything would have been
all right.
when we first got to Chickamauga
we went into camp in the timber, the
idea being TO get shade, but it was a
No air could get in under
the trees and the ~unhealthful odors
created by the horses, the kitchen slops
and other conditions incident to a large
camp, soon made the place very un-
Then at first, in the rush
of troops to the camp, rations were
scant, and sometimes non
too good and sickness soon made its
appearance. All these things helped
create the dissatisfaction among the
men, many of whom laid everything to
Captain Stivers, until there is no doubt
he has grown unpopular with the
troops-something he does not deserve,
at least in my opinion, for / believe If
he boys would give him a show he
III al a. SooN 10 it SiNdN
was that so many of the boys
expected so much more of him than
hey had any right to. They expected
many liberties. He was under the
,rders of his superior officers. and could
not allow them to do just as they
as they seemed TO expect. They
lid not seem able to understand his.
lthough ii seems strange that they
;hould not, and when someone would
isk for a privilege he could not grant,
hat woul be laid up against him.
They say he used rough language to
iome of them. and | guess he did, but
hey deserved ii. I know of my own
from the way | was treated,
hat he did all he could for the boys
verifying in reason. | know ] was
denied anything l asked for. but
was careful never to ask anything I
ad no reason to expect woul or could
e granted. / even got money from
i'm. and I saw him Civ other men as
as s. and so. They claimed, too.
he was deficient in drill. He was {
.ot able TO drill the troops as well as !
ONE other officers could, but he had IL s
II to learn like the rest of us, and !
hen ii comes down to a matter of fact, {
he troop was looked upon as one of the I
drilled IN camp. !
LAS I said. I don't think there is any S
1st reason for Captain Stivers being I
Unpopular with the troop. and If the
oyS were disposed 10 use a little more !
pason. he wou make as good a zap /
ain as anyone. The camp has now I
cen moved out of the timber to better /
round. there is less sickness. no one
as any reason to complain of the Ta-
ons and the troop is in pretty good
y
Speaking of the sickness IN the troop .
said there had been consider /,
BILE, but there had only been a few :
ad cases and but one death. that of !,
rivate Connors, who died with spinal :
.Ieningitis. The other more serious =
lses were those of Private Kahler, =
no had a terrible attack Of pneumo- !,
"a and had two ribs removed: Private :
ick Dempsey. who had typhoid fever L
nd is not expected TO live; Bob Car
,llton of Missoula. who is GONZALES
mt after an attack of typhoid and is
be sent home on a Through, and Il
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