The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-16

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ridge Il he thad visited General sbarter IN
ais tent when iihe letter WAS III al SAINT.
ago. and General Breckenridge replied that
he had dono SO $50.
Dld he then offer the command OF the
army 70 slcu as has been reported In THO
General Breckenridge aapiied a yes,
nueh prefer not To a,,llsAypr THAT question.
= gu should ask General eIiraiter Such Coz
AZ ersatlon az occurred henweeu Central
ssilaiter and mytsclf on ithlt occasion In not
o. q character 20 be spoken eli lightly 4
fail TO sce how u reply from mo would mrs
mote the object OF your inquiry. You wilnit
TO EnUw What General sihafit-r did, nat
whist he may have rhought 0f doing II
GENERAL SpaiLer has not repeated the con-
vel'earion ought not 10 do so.,,
AZ n matter Of fact he ala not turn the
command over to htuggestcd Governor
Beaver. TO which General Brcrklnrldge re-
spondGd3 No, be did moi and / do not
ttint there is any impropriety in my say
Ing That he could not have done So,
Dr. Connor questioned General Brpckiny
ridge about the condition OF tha sinks ut
Camp Thomas when the troops left therc,
saying that u had been reported to tho
commission that many of them had been
found 10 have been uncovered This general
rcpii%3 that necessarily some of The sinks |
mad been left uncovered, that IL was diff
c,hlt 70 clean up after large army
evacuated ii camp. He said however fhsIt
he had forescen this aud had asked $500
from Wash .ngtansfor the purpose Of putting
the snks in proper condit oa. The InOuey |
!5W1 ist Arrived before his ieparture. but
ne supposed IL had been received later and |
ma been used BY his succeasor for the |
purpose for which il was Intended
With this the nNotter was allowed 10 /
drop. and General BreckirFidge WAS ex-
cusesi.
Captain Robert w. Dowdy, who was mas
ter of transportation nc Mortault Point |
stated that at the beginning of the history |
OF the campaign the supply Of traeeporta-
tloh facilities was inadequate, though there
were after~ard improvements While there
had been much criticism of the railroad |
running to the camp he thought Ii had !
been very satisfactory, He sad there was
not alftficlency OF ambularioan but that /
there were enough of them to carry all the
sick soldiers who were not able to walk It
was not true That thc1e vehicles had been
nsela for purposes other thar those for
when thoy were inten'al and the newspaper
stories to the contrary were made out of
whole CLOTH
DR.. G.. T. Magruter, a local physician.
te9tlfled to visiting Camp Alger on three
dmerert occasions lie said he had found |
the tents too close together and the sick
near the kitchens In mary instances
pr. Wlliam O. Weaver OF the Ninth
Pennsylvania volunteers was the first Wit
tSsS before the w1r investigating commits
Sion this afternoon and proved an apt wilt
ness. He gave isstailed Information con-
cerDlng the conduct of regimental hos
plthl at Camp Thomas DR. Weaver said
that typhoid had broken out about The rs III
0f June and 1t had Increased from that time
untii the 10th OF August. There had been
ABOUT 600 cases OF this disease in the regi-
lneht and twenty-eight or thirty deaths
me ooctor said there was an Insufficient
supply OF drugs and that at times he failed
W get what was needed. Qulnlne was one
or the articles of which there had been II
scarcity ard 100000 pills were secured
from home. He sad that at one time there
were lifty-slN typhoid patients In the regl- I
mental hospital, because there was no ac-
commentaries for them In tho division hos
pitaf. Az another time there were sixty
seven fever patients IN the company tents
ior whom admission could not be secured |
ia any hospital, division or regimeatal
In summing up the causes OF disease IN |
the camp Dr.. Weaver Included oyerworls !
OF the men as one. The first revel,Ie |
sounded at 1880 aud after that time the |
mon were kept quite constantly engaged
with drills and other exercises until 6;l5 |
Notwithstanding the weather WIS iutensely |
not. He also expressed the opinion that |
the water from the Chiokamauga creek was
posAtte- He considered the water in this |
stream as hardly fit to battle In much less
TO drink His information wns that there
were possible sources OF coBtagion above |
the inrtake pipe OF the Pipe line system, |
ire Doctor admitted that he had never |
visited the creek at the pumping station.
DIT, Weaver related his difficulties In
securing tenta for tho regimental hospital
ard he said that IN ore case In had received
q refusal to allow tho regiment to have Il |
tent which was stored and which was its |
property,
Colonel Lee said tho tent could not b.
taken out except In the proper military
u,a.rr,sr, but ire regiment had never been
able 70 ascertain what no required and had
never securc' tho tent The defect was
snppled by taking the officers mess tent
for hospital purposes
In this connection Governor Beaver ex-
pressed the opirdon that this conduct on he |
ratt q Colonel Lee was an outrage aud he
said the osay mistake the doctor and his
taken the colonel by the narc OF tho mack
u3d kicked him out Of tho camp"
DIR. Weaver sats he hal bean the only |
surgeon on duty with his regiment, the |
other two being detailed to other service |
tie had been on duty as long as twenty |
four hours ut a time, but no had never !
made airy complaint, because Il was ger-
eraiiy kfpwn that the surgeons In the regi- !
mant werc overworked. The witness ex-
Pressed the opinion that the hospital faclli-
ties should be Furnished by tho government.
ads'lrg that not an article OF properly In |
his hOspltal had been thus supplied, the cit |
isens Of PennsylvaAh buving heAs hang |
cts. sheets and all the food Ice and milk |
that had been used there, They had ex-
peGdcd 10000 on the hospital alone.
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