The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-01

bittls," replied the colonel we wouio nhvo
Colonel Leonard said tho ecmmissaryA sup
tlisS rad bsen good and 20 abundant TIM the
met So qSna CT so or
rho colonel complained Of the quartermas-
teI's supplies especially OF the shoes. lie |
said that he had spent nearly 5000 out Of his
own pocket for shoes for his men.
| lie said that tse supplies were issued IN
pecemeal, and frequently the quartermnster's |
| department got the requIsitions bulled up.
Cclcnei w. x. Caffo. Second Missouri, stat |
cd that his regiment could not receive al
Carr Thomas for u xington. Among the !
last things issaed he said, wire the boilers Tor
boiling the water, which were ordered more
than two months before.
Camp Poland. Knoxville. Tenn. October 81.
Tho war investigating commission concluded
the work OF its Southern tour here today and
at 6 o'clock tonight left for Washington, ex-
pecting to arrive about o'clock tomorrow az
teruoon. 1t is the present Intention that the
committee shall go to Camp Meade soon az
tor arriving OF Washington, and Ex-Governor
| Woodbury. will proceed directly to Vermont
| as subcommittee to take testimony there.
The commission devoted the forenoon today
| TO inspecting the camps and the afternoon to
taking testimony.
The first witness before the commission was
Or. John q. +. Martin, a contract surgeon
| from Ohio. who was al Chickamauga. He re-
peated his expression Of opinion that the
water in the pipe limo system at Chickamauga
was contaminated by the water from Cave
4 Spring creek. He said that after he had first
| expressed this opinion, saving at the time
/ that tho facts In regard to the existence OF
typhoid were being suppressed he had been
summoned by General Sheridan and told that
i he must rctract Immediately or submit TO
+ court martini. He had then written u letter
lof retracuon. but he Declared that he. had
ranse he had changed his opinions as to tho
4 pollution OF the water He read statemcut
7 from the pumping station engineer to the ef-
feet thift tine new channel of the Cave Spring
crock waB not corpieted until August q, and
that previous TO this time the creek enptled
into Chicknmauga river Just above the mouth
OF the intake pips Of the pipe line system.
lie also expressed tho opipion that the Jay
Mill spring al chicknmauga was contaminated
from tito surrounding sinks
DR.. Park u. Myers. q contract surgeon from
Ohio, who was engaged "a the hospital OF tho
Second division Of the First corps at Chicka-
manga dinpred from most OF the physicians
in his estimate of typhoid. He said that white
| many believed 30 per cent OF the sickness at
the camp To be typhoid, he did not believe
that to exceed ~ per cent WAS OF that char
( actor lilo 1iso took issue with those who
, charged typhoid TO the agency OF flies, at
trbutfng 1t to the water. He Thought most
/, OF the diseases at Chickamauga Park were
miasmatie.
Colonel Huger, division superintendent OF
: tho southern Railway, gave the commission
information Ms To inc trVuplN eHFuuDtcTtu III
moving troops. He said that as n rule the
d soldiers had eo-operated In the work of the
: railroad company but there had been some
10 Other witnesses examined were Colonel
e Brown Of the Fourth d, Tennessee and Ltauten,
n Crpxton OF the Sixth Virginia aud Chaplain
Waite. OF the Thirty-frst Michigan.
. Sick men irein my regimen, were sent 70
j. ceived because the hospital was almost over
), crowdod.'' said Colonel Chafie
e visited mo hospital daily while had men
q there. and ] frequently found the tents un-
y floored aud the cots crowded so close together
3, that one could not pass between The tents
IL were so leaky that when 1t WIS raining the
. men In the hospital had to be covered with
" rubber blankets to be protected from drench.
! ''nr. Griffith was In charge of the hospital
or and after visiting all the others 1t was con.
~ cluded that II was the best conducted one a
Y the park. Dr. Griffith aud his assistants wer,
doing all they could with the means Mt hand
Is eight or ten weeks. The nursing In many
y cases WINS objectionable but then came {
10 the conclusion that this was necessary evf
under the circumstances.
a when we could not get thom IN tho di
Or vision hospital on aeeo.int Of It's erogds,
n medicine to give the sick. We made reduisi
"a tons for i and they were returned VIA III
q. ,cines are issued only to men in division hes
IN IN pitfalls ana not TO those In quarters
eli do away with ', the res Ms S ospirals p
es had the division hospitals Mt Chickamaug
2" teen anything like the one here at Cam
-, Hamilton there would have been fault
en- fluid"
=, Colonel Chaffee gave SOME OF the most vait
~ able testimony obtained by the committee.
~, CciAnel Thomas j. Smith of the Third kei
"a lucky said that his regiment was not equippe
wv. w With clothing for three weeks after Its "A,
~ rival ut Chickainaugn, He hnd no complain
N, however, to make, as he thought everythin
IL possible had been done to supply II. He con
''H plinenod the coInmlasnry and qunrtermast,
nm departments on the supplies received by h
e,,, | command.
saa Lieutenant Colonel y. ID. Mitchell Of Il
nd FIRST Territorial testified that although Il
sen regiment was mustered in IN the middle
July, 1t had not yet received all Its clothin
ar The mon suffered without Blankets on n
he count OF rain and the cool nights.
M They have told MS eyary day for ten days
eat said Colonel Mitchell, that Cur stoves wou
IN be here tomorrow, but they have not cor
has yet
"'S Lieutenant Colonel II. w. Banks, the col
ron mandng officer Of tho Third Mississippi, pl
ned hls compliments TO the officers OF the car
of OF Camp Hamilton.
lrst Nolonsi Drinks tehuWony competed the
yer uhks VI 'he oohiihi'tee ior tonisnt.
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