The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07
NORTH DAK0TAN Writes
Of CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR
DR.. Wentz, Well Known Citizen and
Physician of LaMoure County, Gives
Information Regarding Camp
January %. 1918.

January %, 1918.
Dear Sir: l have been requested
by some of your readers to oontri-
butte an article to your valuable
paper which may be of interest to
the general public. 1 don't know
what may be of interest to the
general public, so 1 will talk of
the things that are of interest to
me, and hope that the general pub
lie will also be interested.
Camp Zachary Taylor is located
four and one half miles south of
Louisville, Kentucky: 1t covers
five sections of land. Has some
100 government buildings there
in. The Base hospital is the only
hospital and covers about q acres.
1t will accommodate 1000 patti
ents in 80 wards. At present there
are about $50 patients. Each
regiment is provided with an In
Urinary. The sanitary train of the
regiment has it's headquarters in
the Infnmary. In directing per-
sonal letters care should be taken
to designate Infirmary. if the COR
respondent is in an Infrmary and
not hospital. If the correspond
ent is attached to an infantry
company the letter of the comp
any and the number of the regi-
ment should be a part of the adj
dress. The name of the organiza
ton is as important as the street
and number OH a letter sent to a
city.
The letters are sorted out at the
Division post office, and sent in
mail sacks to the various units
where they are sorted out by an
orderly appointed for that purpose
into alphabetical pigeon holes, and
the men look the mail over and
help themselves. If you think over
the possibilities offered by this
system, you may easily under
stand why some Of your letters re.
main unanswered. Why some of
the little packages prepared with
such loving care, and baptized per
chance with a tear, do not reach
your soldier boy.
l recently received in my mail
three letters from North Carolina.
The address was to the Infantry
hospital. The only hospital here
is the base, so l fell heir to some
literary talent from the Tar Heel
state. One of the letters mention
ed the 46th. There is only one
46th here, and that is regiment
of the Regular infantry. l went
over there and in the Infirmary ]
found my namesake, and made
four people happy by delivering
the mial. If you have anything
of value to send, it is sure Of de-
livery if insured and registered,
or if an important letter, it has a
special delivery stamp attached.
Remember that this is a city of a
population fiuctuating between
10000 and 10000 men. and the
difficulty attending the delivery of
mail which has not the name of the
unit written in the address is 50
great that if it does occur it is
accidental.
Four miles from the main camp
is the Remount depot. The Re
mount is one of the government
horse and mule stock yards where
the horses purchased in the west
are detained for acclimatization.
Horses from Kentucky and adjac-
ent states are shipped to far-away
points for the same reason. At
the Remount the animals are class
flied into artillery, cavalry and
wagon horses. The mules into
wagon and pack. They are also
labeled as wheel, middle or lead.
Tho wards here will accommodate
$500 animals. Some very beauti-
fnl animals come into the yards.
and that are very doubtful look
ing Tn this respect they are like
the recruits.
The recruits are all reexamined
after they come into the army by
the tuberculosis board in order tc
Gull out the men who may chance
to be afflicted with that disease.
have the honor to be member of
the T. B. board at this camp. In
addition to making an expert ex
animation Of the lungs we are re
dnested to examine the heart and
to- wake a note of any abnormal
itv which the soldier may have. In
th;s wav we picked out a mau
f-em Tennessee with a cork leg
j. :. assumed that the local board
. presumed that this man would be
an ideal soldier to send against the
Germans, because his leg could BE-
renewed. if necessary, many times
So many glazing defects came t.