Evening star., 1898-09-14
District Soldiers DskiSd by Illness
in New York
LIST OF COMPANIA REPRESENTED
Men Brought FromaMsntauk Point
Aboard the Shianecock.
THOSE GIVEN BURROUGHS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.


pitals. the members of the District
of Columbia Volunteers left behind when
the regiment departed for Washington last
Friday. While at Camp Wikoff there were
about 200 sick. A number Of these de-
parted for their homes with the regiment
in the first stages of convalescence. Some
had to be left behind, at Camp Wikoff or in
the hospitals of this vicinity. Ths mortality
in the regiment so far had only been flf-
teen, and this number died of diseases in
cident to military service in the field. The
regiment farad better than other volunteer
troops during the war, and probably fewer
of their sick were left in this vicinity than
of any other regiment in the service.
AS an illustration of this fact, the trans
port Shinnecock, which brought 80 con-
valascent soldiers from Camp Wikoff Mon
day. had aboard only two District of Co.
lumbia soldiers Ill. enough to be sent to
hospitals. They were Samuel Morgan of
Company L, 1st Regiment, who was sent
to St. GATHERINGS Hospital in Brooklyn, and
Samuel j. Wallace, acting steward, 1st Reg
iment, who was sent to ST. Vincent's Hos
pital in this city, Neither of these m.n
They were in the first stages of conva-
lescence. and it was thought advisable to
give them the care and attention found in
a hospital.
Aboard the ShinnecOek.
There were a number of District of Co
lumbia men aboard the Shinnecock who
were well enough to take their furloughs.
When the usual questions, VIII you go to
a hospital? VIII you remain two weeks in
New York? Will you go to the country
for two weeks, or will you take your fur
lough and go home? were asked these men,
" no have probably reached their homes
or are now well on their way thlther. felt
sufficiently well to be furloughed at once:
John Green, corporal, Company G, 1st
District of Columbia
Jas. S. Connaty, Company L, 1st District
of Columbia.
John kamerer, corporal, Company I, 1st
District of Columbia.
George G. Meigs, quarternaster Sc, geant,
1st District of Columbia.
William A. Noyes, Company D, 1st Dis
Ebert Richmond, Company G., Is: Dis
trct of Columbia. II
Alphonso W. Shilling, sergeant, Company
D, 1st District of Columbia
Harry Slater, Company K, 1st District
of Columbia.
Columbia.
Of Dayd 9oI,5oSa Williams compsayqG, 1st District
There are but two sources of information
here regarding sick soldiers. One is the
hospital and the other is the bureau of in
formation in the army building, presided
tain and the latter almost dmpracticable
The hospitals are strung out over a large
area OF territory, and are hedged in by
rules that the seeker afterirfornation does
not always get what he wants. Major Ap-
pei is striving to handle a large problem to
the best of his ability, bup his bureau of in
formation doesn't inforn.s unless you can
give the name of the soldier you wish to
lind. The reason for it is this: The names
of all the sick soldiers, probably 600, are
arranged alphabetically. They are not
classified by regiments, and the only COPY
of this list is kept in card index form. is
revised daily and is in almost constant use
The narrow DaSsaSeway to the abiding
place of this list is between the elevator
shafts and the wall. and is filled from
morning until night with a long line of
soldiers, some of them convaIescents and
weak from long standing, waiting their
turn to reacn the majors little room in the
corner and be checked off from th. same
list, as furlouShed or otherwise disposed of.
1t will therefore be seen that 1t is almost
out of the question to obtain access to the
roster of the sick for the purposes of slow
selection of certain members of regiment
probably not more than thirty all tcd.
Bureaus List.
September the bureau Of lnforma ton
gave out it's full list of sick soldiers There
was not District of Columbia man in it.
Starting from this date it is found that of
the District of Columbia troops there We're,
September I, three furloughs; September 8
there was one death; September 8, another
death. and September 10, the day after the
departure of the regiment for home, there
were three furloughS. These furloughS and
deaths added to the list of furoughs and
sick just given, would account for twenty
men.
Your correspondent was only able to To-
cate two men in New York hospitals. They
were Wallace, already mentioned. and
Elmer Phelps of 1st District of Columbia.
Phelps is from Kent, Ohio, originally. He
h. ~ l,,, .yNit 4
and the house physician says he is doing
very well.
Visiting the out-of-town hospitals there
were found at the Long Island College the
Albert shalk. Company 1. District of
Columbia Volunteers; suffering from acute
rheumatism, but said to be doing very well.
James b. Warden. Company NJ, 1st Dis
trict of Columbia Volunteers; malarial
fever but also said to be doing well.
At st. Peters Hospital (Brooklyn) the
following were found:
G. r. Woodington, Company H. 1st Dis
trict of Columbia Volunteers; i'll Of typhoid
fever.
Ivan Tidestrom, sergeant, Company c. 1st
District of Columbia Volunteers: malaria:
Clarence b. Hart. Company G, 1st Dis
trict of Columbia Volunteers; malaria
Robert Taylor, Company NJ, 1st District
of Columbia Volunteers; malaria
Ernest Barbour, quartermaSter sergeant,
Company G; malaria.
All are doing well.
AT st. Johns Brooklyn) Hospital there
were:
Edgar Fletcher. Company L, suffering
from diarrhoea, and Budd Fortney, Com
pany l., malarial fever.
Fred. Stewart, Company L, left the hos
pital today for Washington, discharged.
At the Seney Hospital George N. Hodges
was the last District of Columbia soldier
on the list He was discharged today.
This covers all but one hospital-the East
ern District-in Brooklyn. Access to this
hospital could not be obtained last night.
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in The Star of TO-DAY toyther suggestion 1
made in your issue of yesterday, relative
to the use of scrapbooks in the Congress-
icnal Library. 1 am equally thankful to
you for the prompt inseftfoh of the col
onels communication. Iiiheard a number
OF citizens. reading The STAR speak favor
apiy or the whole project.
On several occasions I have called the at
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lectures published In The Star the first Sat-
urday or each month. They are important
and ought to be utilized very generally.
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