The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-27
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Carpenter Examined as to Con-
,i.iors at Chicl&amauga, Tampa
- I7ernandina-Mnj. Candy Tes-
- in Regard to the Medical
s,,nn,v Depot at TampR-NIaj.
r,,o,,asson's Testimony Deals
,,,,.l, the OvercrOwding of the Hos
,,aI nj MontauI1 and Lack of At
tendnnts.
-...,s,,iue Ala, Oct. 26.-The war in
eating commission to-day postponed
..sosction of Camp Forsee. owing to
,a5 .r5wstorm and very muddy roads.
Ths camp here is large one, with about
-.n subdivisions of troops, to say
ching of the hospitals. There were a
.st many regulars here, and emong
M many who participated in the Santi-
IL oampaign. Many of these will be ex-
{ r,ired by the commission. The iuvesti-
FL ZION mere viii be directed especially to
n,acuring of facts concerning the man
uorent of the hospitals and the care OF
FL - sick while the army was in Cuba.
rbe commission began the examination
witnesses to-day with Gen. Louis H
-srpenter. who is in command during
I'm Wheelers absence. He had been at
oobamauga, Tampa and at Fernandna
sf5re coming here. He said that camp at
biekamauga was too crowded. That at
rompa was unsatisfactory, but 1t was not
7terded to be permanent. That at Fer
aodina was IDEAL The food supply had
/ zen ample throughout, but quartermas
ers supplies were generally slow, and
/ here had been especial trouble in secur-
ng tents There was more difficulty in
getting supplies at Tampa than elsewhere
because of railroad congestion.
Mai Charles NJ. Candy, the surgeon
who was in charge of the medical supply
5epot at Tampa, said ne had been able
to fill all reasonable acquisitions for med
teal supplies with promptness, but many
hulky articles for which substitutes could
be had wcre not supplied. Regular troops
were easily satisfied, but the volunteers
ware exacting. Still there were delays
and he mentioned one instance Of sup
plies ordered from New York that were
not received for two months. He had fit
Ted out the Shafter expedition for Cuba
and thought that in the main the expedi-
Ton was fairly supplied. This was es-
t'lal9 true OF the uTSI G6QQlSlIlO0. He
had afterward heard that many Of the
stores came back TO Tampa in the hold
Of the Iroquois. He gave the name of
Capt Munson as authority for this lat
ter statement, and he was sure that Capt
Ell Nunson would testify willingly and fully
During the afternoon session of
the commission number of Of
dcers who had served In the San
tiago campaign and in Florida We're exam
ined. Gen. G. S. Carpenter said the sick
at Santiago had suffered somewhat on ac-
count of the deficiency of medicines and
medical supplies but this was the only de-
pnvation Of which he spoke. The troops
did not receive the entire ration while in
the field, but he was quite sure that no
man in the command had gone hungry.
Capt George S. Cartwright, who had
heen aide to Gen. Kent in the Santiago
campaign, said that doubtless some of the
men had been hungry at times but he
thought the excitement of battle had sus-
tanned them. On the night of July he
had had half hard tack for supper and
the remaining half the next morning. He
thought that under the circumstances the
commssary department had been quite eff
fcent in Santiago
Lieut.. Farnsworth, Gen. Lawton's quar-
ermaster at Santiago, gave the details
Of forwarding supplies and Lieut.. Grier-
SON chief commissary at Tampa and
capt Thompson, who had held the posi-
non at Fernandina, told of the supplies
al these two points. Mr.. Farnsworth said
nat Tor time it had been impossible TO
gel full rations to the front. Messrs.
'rerson and Thompson said the principal
complaints they had heard about supplies
concerned the bacon furnished.
Maj. H. D. Thomasson surgeon of the
Iilrty-third Michigan, who had served i'm
'he general hospital at Montauk Point af-
Ter Aug. II, said that in August there
were GOO patients in the hospital and that
mere We're often eight in a tent. There
were in the beginning of his service not
suiHcient cots and some men had to sleep
on the blankets. Some of the members of
W tAe hospital corps were without training,
put he had known of but one instance in
W Wmch hospital refuse was thrown out on
the ground beside the tent. There were
times when there was not a sufficient num-
Der OF attendants. AS a rule the surgeons
We're capable, but when he went into the
institution there was a sad deficiency In
numbers. He had heard no complaint of
iii treatment from patients, but there was
n criticism from outsiders He thought
deaths were caused by the removal of pa
uehts before they were in condition to be
81 moved. Yet the removals were made to
make place for others who We're still sick,
"A and who otherwise would not have found
place in the hospital In one instance
ne had been told to get 800 ready for re-
III moFal. but when going through the hos
plal he had found only seventy fit TO be
u moved and had demanded written order.
Inns order he did not get, and therefore,
removed only the seventy. He estimated
'hai from 200 70 500 had been thus pre-
maidIely removed.