The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-21
AT cHIcKAsIAuGA PARK.
Company, Battalion and Regimental
DriIIs-RiRes Distributed.


CHICK AMAUGA PARK, Ca. June 90
To-day at the park was quite in contrast
with yesterday. The regiments were in
state Of great activity, and the drill grounds
were enlivened by company, battalion and
regimental drills in all portions of the park.
Recruits continued to arrive to-day, though
in not quite such large numbers as during
the three preceding days. Up to last night
there had arrived for the First Army Corps
'1507 recruits. but no record was received to-
day for those arriving for the Third Corps.
The ordnance department handed out for
distribution among the regiments to-day
ever nine thousand Springfield rifles from
the Columbus Arsenal. These guns were
divided up among the following regiments:
First Arkansas. Sixteenth Pennsylvania,
First Pennsylvania, Fourth Pennsylvania,
Ninth Pennsylvania. First New Hampshire,
Second Kentucky, Second Missouri. Fifth
Missouri. Second Ohio, Fourth Ohio, Third
Illinois, Thirty-first Michigan, Fifty-second
iowa, Fourteenth Minnesota, First Missis-
sippi. Third Kentucky and Third Tennessee.
carriages and other stores. Including eight
wagon loads of harness, were distributed
among the light artillery batteries.
Speaking of the work of providing for the
recruits Chief Quartermaster Lee said to-
day that he found it extremely difficult to
get tents sufficient for the command. The
tents were not in existence to begin with,
and Colonel Lee thinks the continued short
age is due to the scarcity of sail canvas
experts
Il. III. Case, inspector general of the State
of Michigan, were visitors at Camp Thomas
to-day. They paid their respects TO General
Brooke, and then proceeded to the camp
of the Tlirty-first Michigan Regiment Col.
Gardner and his men gave the Governor and
General Case a most hearty, welcome.
cNylH mia has re
full quota of recruits, bringing its rolls up
to the full strength required by the late
order from the War Department.
Maj. r. w. McClaughrey. DIR. Howard
Wines, secretary of the Illinois State Board
of Charities, and Capt. Hartwell Osborne,
of Chicago, appointed by the Illinois Army
and Navy League TO visit Chickamauga and
inspect the condition of the Illinois regi-
ments canped at the park and its general
1ealthtulness, left to-day, and will make
favorable report, being we'll pleased with
the camps of the regiments, bus lind much
in the lack OF medical supplies and the in
adequacy of division and brigade surgeons
TO criticise. They expressed a hope, how
ever that the defects in this respect would
be shortly remedied.
Efforts are now being made TO perfect the
guard work at the park as rapidly as pos
sibe, and in pursuance to this orders
have keen issued from the headquarters Of
the First Division of the First Corps that all
officers and noncommissioned officers of the
guard win be required to remain. with the
guard during the entire tour of duty. They
will also make a prescribed inspection, and
will be held responsible for the thorough in
struction of the guard. To accomplish this
each brigade is to appoint one of the mem
bsrs of its staff to do the work.
The hospital of the Third Division of the
First Army Corps has several cases of
pneumonia and typhoid fever. Major r. c..
Clark, chief surgeon of the hospital. thinks
that possibly the rain may have had some
thing to do with producing the typhoid
fever by washing out the camps and carry
ing its refuse into the water supply
Henry n. Patton is the name of the pri-
waite of the Thirty-frst michigan Regiment
who is now wandering about Camp Thomas
suffering from mental alteration. Yester-
day Colonel Gardner sent notice to all regi-
ments on the field, in which he requested
the commanding officers to look after the
man should he be found wandering about
the camps. Patton is thirty-one years old.
and has been out of his camp almost two
days. He was in the hospital at the time
of his mysterious disappearance.
Field AdjItant Clough. of the Third Wis
consin. is very ill. having symptoms of
pneumonia. but the physicians hope that he,
will recover and resume his work in the
near future.
w. II. Morrow. private of the Fourth Ohio
Infantry, has been committed to Eyonsview
Asylum by Recorder Hope on warrant OF
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