The age-herald., 1898-09-24
SICK SOLDIERS
 OF FIRST ALABAMA Were All Doing Splendidly Las
 Night. MANY OF THEM DISCHARGED Dr. L. A. Fielder of the United States
 Army Has Arrived.
MANY OF THEM DISCHARGED
HE WILL RELIEVE DR. MORRIS
Splendid / ttentlon Being Given the Soldiers in the General Hospital Keeps Nurses Bl s sy- Pr vate
 Tebo of2d Texas Better.

Every sick soldier in the First Alapama
 is doing nicely according to the latest re- ports received last night. Corporal WoH and Private Campbell of Company A were discharged from the Hillman hospital yes- terday and Privates Morgan and Grithn, also of Company l., were discharged the day before Private Hoffman, who was brought up from the division hospital at Jacksonville a few days ago, is now the sickest soldier in the Hillman hospital. Private Hyland of Company H, Private Parker of Company II and Private Hard- ing are now the only soldiers left in this hospital. The two or three soldiers who were at the Wilson-Brown infirmary, were discharged several days ago.
 Privates John Burnett, William Knott and James A. Kergan, of Company L; Frank Lewis and w. T. Green, of Company F; Hugh Witherspoon, of Company H, and B. M. Ware, of Company M, who have been confined at the hospital are so much improved that they will be discharged from the hospital and given their thirty-day fur lough tomorrow
 Dr. L. A. Fielder, one of the assistant surgeons in the United States army, has arrived in Birmingham from Atlanta, and will be put in charge of the First regiment hospital. He will succeed pr, Lewis Mor- ris, who for the past week has been tenn porarily in charge. Dr. Fielder will remain with the regiment until it is mustered out
 "The general hospitaP' up in the Rifles armory is now being run on the most mod ern up-to-date hygienic principles. In the
 first place, the armory is large, well ven tilated and well lighted hall, and as it is now equipped it makes a first-class hos pital.
 The hospital has been divided off into wards-one each for typhoid, malarial and dysentery patients, and each ward is run entirely independent of the other. There are now twelve nurses in all, in charge of Hospital Stewards Class and Hogan, whose faithful work is to be greatly commended. All of the nurses in the hospital department of the regiment were kept in the division hospital in Jacksonvile, and new ones had to be assigned and broken into their duties since the regiment arrived in Birmingham. This keeps MT. Class and MT. Hogan busy night and day teaching the nurses how to handle the patients One of the purses is a professional female nurse who has been employed by the ladies of the city to assist in the care of the sick soldiers
 Each patient is given a sponge bath twice day, and is fed on carefully prepared liquid diet. Soft mattresses have been supplied for most of the patients, so that they do not have to be kept on guard at the door night and da- to keep away too many visitors. Many of the latter, however, bring great punches of flowers, and they give the hospital a most cheerful appear. ance.
 The In. .ured Texan
 A. J. Tebo. of the Second Texas, who fell off of one of the trains which was taking his regiment back to Texas, near Fayette Wednesday night, doing very well at the Hillman hospital last night. His left leg is broken and his right arm and shoul- der very severely bruised, but he will recover in a comparatively short space of time. As will be remembered, Tebo fell off of the train while 1t was running at full speed, and was found the next morning by an employe of the Southern railroad. He was brought into the city Thursday after noon. Colonel Openheimer, in command of his regiment, has been notified, but noth- ing has yet been heard from him.