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COMPANY L ROSTER.
JAMES L. ANDERSON, Captain, Frankfort, Ind. ELI W. PETERSON, 1st Lieutenant, Decature, Ind.
CHARLES L. DORITY, 2d Lieutenant, Michigan City, Ind.
SERGEANTS,
Cissel, Ernest W., Laporte, Ind., Printer.
Ansley, Robert, Westville, Ind., Medical Student.
Southard, William E., Michigan City, Ind., Plasterer. Brown, Arthur R., Lebanon, Ind., Clerk.
McDonald, Joseph, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer.
CORPORALS.
Ongman, Carl, Michigan City, Ind., Carpenter.
Dilworth, Leslie, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer.
Kinnel, Howard M., Michigan City, Ind., Mechanic.
Dodds, William L., Zelina, Ind., Railroad employe.
Jackson, Henry B., Laporte, Ind., Printer, promoted from ranks Aug. 20, 1898.
Birjinski, Frank, Michigan City, Ind., Woodpolisher, pro- moted from ranks, Aug. 20, 1898.
Kalies, Charles T., Westville, Ind., Clerk, promoted from ranks Aug. 20, 1898.
Walton, Edward V., Wanatah, Ind., Painter, promoted from ranks Aug. 20, 1898.
Davidson, Reynolds, Michigan City, Ind., Tailor, promoted from ranks Aug. 20, 1898.
Hall, Henry M., Michigan City, Ind., Painter, promoted from ranks Aug. 20, 1898.
SERGEANTS, COMPANY L.
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Simpson, Washington W., Laporte, Ind., Laborer, promoted from ranks Dec. 21, 1898.
Fiffer, Fred., New York City, Shoemaker, promoted from ranks April 10, 1899.
MUSICIANS.
Gorden, Albert, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer, appointed from ranks Aug. 1, 1898.
Thomas Edward, Brookville, Ind., Editor, transferred from 159th Ind., Nov. 23, 1898.
COOK.
Schott, John P., Buffalo, N. Y., Jeweler, enlisted as cook Dec. 6, 1898, at Savannah, Ga.
ARTIFICER.
Renfro, Lorenzo D., T ree Oaks, Mich., Brickmason, appointed from ranks Aug. 27, 1898.
WAGONER.
Chronister, Benjamin F., Laporte, Ind., Farmer, enlisted as wagoner.
PRIVATES.
Akers, William H., Paoli, Ind., Laborer.
Babcock, Virgil P., Porter, Ind., Farmer.
Babcock, Daniel D., Babcock, Ind., Farmer.
Baldwin, Charles F., Michigan City, Ind., Blacksmith.
Bays, George R., Three Oaks, Mich., Laborer. Bauman, Irvin, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer,
Bello, Antonio, Michigan City, Ind., Marble cutter.
Bottume, Gurdon, Laporte, Ind., Laborer. Campbell, Herbert, Indianapolis, Ind., Laborer. Closser, Paul M., Laporte, Ind., Farmer. Cole, Frank L., Westville, Ind., Laborer. Creider, Oliver P., Bedford, Ind., Quarry man. Cromey, Henry A., Valparaiso, Ind., Farmer. Cronin. Andrew, Westville, Ind., Farmer.
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Culbertson, Sant, Westville, Ind., Printer.
Denny, William S., Michigan City, Iud., Painter. Dreblow, Louis H., San Pierre, Ind., Painter. Drewer, Winfred F., Laporte, Ind., Fireman. Feistel, Gustave W., Michigan City, Ind., Cabinetmaker Flewellen, Fred., Battle Creek, Mich., Farmer. Gassow, Charles, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer.
Graves, Edward, Winamac, Ind., Laborer. Harness, Jason, Stillwell, Ind., Farmer. Harris, Allen C., Westville, Ind., Farmer.
Haskins, Ernest, Niles, Mich., Laborer.
Hawkins, George F., Westville, Ind., Farmer.
Hixon, Warren H., Westville, Ind., Farmer. Hoff, Horace, Bedford, Ind., Mechanic. Hopkins, William, Michigan City, Ind., Fireman. Johnson, Edwin R., Bedford, Ind., Laborer.
Kennedy, Joseph J., Michigan City, Ind., Laborer.
Kernoodle, William, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer. Klingler, Emanuel G., Three Oaks, Mich., Farmer. Larson, August, Chesterton, Ind., Farmer.
Lederer, Alexander, Evansville, Ind., Dentist.
Lotridge, Henry G., Bloomington, Ind., Railroader. Low, Henry J., Three Oaks, Mich., Laborer. Lyons, Elza, Westville, Ind., Farmer. Mojensky, Joseph, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer. Mutch, Hubert, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer. McGinnis, Robert C., Westville, Ind., Laborer.
Noakes, Willard L., Michigan City, Ind., Painter. Osborn, Gaylord, Wanatah, Ind., Farmer. Owens, Robert E., Bedford, Ind., Farmer. Pace, Frank, Bedford, Ind., Engineer.
Palmateer, Wilber, Michigan City, Ind., Moulder. Rapp, Frank H., Otis, Ind., Laborer. Reynolds, Ray, Westville, Ind., Carpenter. Rittenour, William L., Union Mills, Ind., Farmer. Romepagle, Albert C., Laporte, Ind., Painter. Shaw, Charles F., Westville, Ind., Laborer. Sheffer, Charles E., Laporte, Ind., Laborer.
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Smith, Clarence, Seafield, Ind., Farmer. Smith, William F., Seafield, Ind., Farmer. Swan, Benjamin, Lake Station, Ind., Plasterer. Waggoner, George, Laporte, Ind., Laborer.
Watkins, Edward W., Crawfordsville, Ind., Laborer. Will, Ernest, Michigan City, Ind., Barber.
Wirth, Herman T., Waterford, Ind., Laborer.
Youngblooth, Edmund, Pittsburgh, Pa., Laborer.
Zuelke, August, Michigan City, Ind., Laborer.
LATER ENLISTMENTS.
Browne, Roy W., New Castle, Ind., Drum Major, transferred from band Jan. 1, 1899.
Carter, Howard, Epsom, Ind., Student, transferred from 159th Ind., Nov. 23. 1899.
Duree, William C., Br gton, Ind., Paper hanger, transferred from 159th Ind., Nov. 23, 1898.
Murphy, George H., Evansville, Ind., Potter, transferred from 159th Ind., Nov. 23, 1898.
McClintock, Harrie C., Buffalo, N. Y., Locomotive fireman, enlisted Dec. 6, 1898, at Savannah, Ga.
Schwaner, Robert T., Evansville, Ind., Clerk, transferred from 159th Ind., Nov. 28, 1898.
Willis, William G., Terre Haute, Ind., Paper Hanger, enlisted Dec. 10, 1898, at Savannah, Ga.
DISCHARGED FOR DISABILITY AND OTHER CAUSES.
Bloomhuff, John L., Union Mills, Ind., Carpenter, Aug. 22, 1898.
Bonadore, Martin, Three Oaks, Mich., Farmer, January 3, 1899.
Bowen, George, Stillwell, Ind., Farmer, March 20, 1899.
Clark, Guy O., Union Mills, Ind., Tinner, March 10, 1899.
Durbin, Sheldon M., Michigan City, Ind., Laborer, Nov. 21, 1898.
Faris, William A., Fariston, Ky., Quarryman, Jan. 30, 1899. Felio, James E., Michigan City. Ind., Sailor, Nov. 3. 1898. Hamilton, Leroy, Westville, Ind., Laborer, April 4, 1899.
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Hittle, Benjamin F., Indianapolis, Ind., Decorator, Dec. 22, 1898.
Hunt, James E., Rolling Prairie, Ind., Farmer, March 6, 1899. Lettan, Edward C., Michigan City, Ind., Laborer, Feb. 14, 1899.
Long, William, Hobbyville. Ind., Quarryman, March 25, 1899. Maddox, John A., Bedford, Ind., S onemason, Jan. 30, 1899. Massengill, James, Bedford, Ind., Laborer, Jan. 25, 1899.
McMillan, George W., Union Mills, Ind., Farmer, March 6, 1899.
Parkhurst, Curtis, Hamilton, Mich., Farmer, Feb. 27, 1899. Robe, Daniel, Galien, Mich., Laborer, Jan. 31, 1899.
Spitzmesser, Nicholas B., Greensburg, Ind .. Bookkeeper, Sept. 23, 1898.
Young, Jacob W., Bedford, Ind., Quarryman. Jan. 13, 1899.
TRANSFERRED.
Leland, Charles M., Serg't, Michigan City, Ind., Painter, to Regimental band as band sergeant Jan. 9, 1899.
Johanm, Frank, Corp., Union Center, Ind, Farmer, to Hos- pital Corps, Aug. 23, 1898.
Jones, John G. B., Laporte, Ind., Student, to Hospital Corps, Aug. 23, 1898.
Meissner, August, Laporte, Ind., Druggist, to Regimental Band, Aug. 23, 1898.
Paxton, George, Jr., Michigan City, Ind., Clerk, to Regi- mental Band, Aug. 23, 1898.
Reinhart, Walter W., Laporte, Ind., Laborer, to Regimental Band, Aug. 23, 1898.
DIED
Leiter, Charles E., Gilboa, Ohio, Blacksmith, Oct. 17. 1898, in hospital at Jacksonville, Fla.
DESERTED.
Jones, William D., Three Oaks, Mich., Laborer, Oct. 16, 1898, at Jacksonville, Fla.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
MAJOR WICKLIFF SMITH.
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WICKLIFF SMITH
Major Wickliff Smith is a self-made man; the fine re- putation he has sustained as a physician and surgeon has been acquired by the greatest perseverance, under most adverse circumstances. He was born November 24, 1851, in Marion county, among the hills of West Virginia. His parents were well-to-do farmers and the young man began life's struggle with the grain of his makeup straight- ened and tempered by that training so peculiar to such environment. His early education was received in the country schools and later, in Jefferson College, Waynes- burg, Pennsylvania. After his literary course he returned once more to the farm and here in the midst of his work spent his spare time in the study of medicine. His father's estate had been lost during the war, sickness laid hold upon them and the young man was facing the future with an extra heavy burden to bear. He succeeded in entering the Cincinnati Medical College in 1871, graduating three years later. After a very brief practice in Calida, Ohio, he went to Delphi, Indiana, where he has since resided, with a practice that has steadily grown until the demand upon his time was greater than he could meet. He is held in high esteem by the people of his place, and considered an authority in medical science the state over. To his careful attention to details of camp cleanliness and other sanitary conditions is due much of the healthfulness which has attended the regiment in which he served as surgeon. No man was more popular in the regi ment than Major Smith, and his brave deportment in the threatened smallpox plague gained for him the admiration of every soldier that knew him. He will return to Delphi when mustered out.
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MILLARD F. GERRISH.
First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon Millard F. Gerrish was born at Paris, Jennings county, Indiana, Feb- ruary 27, 1856. His father was a surgeon in the Sixty-
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seventh Indiana during the Civil war. After finishing his preparatory studies, he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in and began the practice of his profession.
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He sacrificed a large practice to enter the volunteer service, and was commissioned first lieutenant and assist- ant surgeon, in June. Twice during the absence of the major-surgeon, October 5-15, he became acting surgeon in charge, and was found at all times faithful to his important commission, and to his untiring service must be credited much of the excellent health of his regiment.
Lieutanents Gerrish and Wilson were appointed as medical examiners for the Fourth Virginia and Forty-ninth Iowa, on occasion of their preperation for muster out.
JAMES WILSON.
James Wilson, first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, was born at Wabash, Indiana, in 1865, November 15. He was educated in Greencastle, Indiana, at DePauw Univer- sity, after which he entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which institution he graduated in 1888. He repaired at once to New York city and entered Belle- view Medical College, graduation from medical course in 1890. His professional studies being finished he engaged in practice of medicine in the city of his birth. Upon the second call for troops, he offered himself to the governor for service in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in as assistant sur- geon with the rank of first lieutenant in June. On August 26, he was detached from regiment and placed in charge of one of the wards of the Third Division hospital, at Jackson- ville, from which position he was reluctantly released on October 24, to rejoin his regiment, which was then start- ing for Savannah, Georgia.
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HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
This department of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana as organized in the beginning consisted of Surgeon- Major Wickliff Smith, of Delphi, Assistant Surgeon Lieu- tenants Millard F. Gerrish, of Seymour, and James Wilson, of Wabash, all eminent physicians of the state who were selected by the governors on account of their high profes-
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sional standing, and Hospital Stewards William H. Rath- ert, druggist and medical student of Indianapolis; Jas. G. Espey, druggist and medical student of Rising Sun, In- diana, and John I. Lewis, recent graduate physician of Bedford. A regiment could hardly have had a better equipment of men in the medical department. When the regiment was first mustered in at the state fair grounds it was thought unnecessary to organize a field hospital for the large healthy men then in camp and all cases were treated at their quarters for the first few weeks. But the surgeons had not much more than gotten through with their duties of finishing the mustering papers when they found a sick call of sufficient magnitude to preclude much idleness on their part and on the 6th of August a hospital was started in the upper story of the administration build- ing. The quarters were very pleasant, being commodious and airy. Private Horace Lucas, of Company A, an ex- perienced nurse, and Doctor Jones, then a private of Com- pany H, were detailed to nurse and prepare the diet. Some cots, an old cook stove, tables and some other useful arti- cles, property of the state militia, were pressed into serv- ice, and these, with some cooking utensils purchased out of a fund placed at our disposal by Colonel Durbin and Major Smith, made up our first equipments. Out of this same fund a few delicacies and a daily supply of milk were pur- chased, but when once started the good ladies of Indianap- olis made donations of good things to eat and bed linen that had the regiment remained at this camp very much longer the hospital would have had a stock of provisions sufficient to supply a dozen such institutions.
Three patients were received on the afternoon of the 6th. Other cases soon followed until the records would show from ten to fifteen in the hospital each day. The morning reports would show about an average of forty or
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fifty answering sick call. This did not include many who were taking medicine for minor causes and not going on the sick book. The sickness was due principally to ma- larial infection, being fever, diarrhea, etc., predisposed by the changes always incident to camp life.
While camp life was new to the men, they failed to realize to any great extent that it was necessary to exer- cise some precautions in the care of their health; that a few mild chills in Indiana might be the cause for protracted malarial fever in the tropical country, or that a disordered stomach predisposed to a prolonged attack of camp diarrhoea. Thus it was that when we left Camp Mount, although considered a healthy regiment, the men really had not the physical stamina they had when they came into camp six weeks before. On breaking camp about half of the patients in the hospital were furloughed home, the balance taken along, as they were so desirous of staying with the regiment, that it was almost impossible to refuse to take them. Just before starting the first dis- charge in the regiment was granted to Corporal William Gilbert on the ground of disability. Not being of strong constitution, the six weeks of camp life had been too rough for him and the surgeons decided he was unfitted for further military service. On arrival at Panama Park, Florida, on the bright Sunday morning of August 14th, only three men were willing to be admitted to the hospital, the others being so benefited and buoyed up by the trip and changes manifest everywhere about them that, although some had fever, they were desirous of keeping out of the hospital. Each case had received close attention during the trip, there being a surgeon aboard each section of the train. When the regiment first went into camp here it was the order from corps headquarters to have a regimental hospi- tal to hold the patients for not longer than three days to
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determine the gravity of the ailment, after which the pa- tient was to be sent to the division hospital or returned to quarters as the seriousness of the case would indicate. This was not a very practical rule, to say the least, and was not followed closely by any of the regiments in the corps, possibly on account of the lack of the facilities at the di- vision hospital at the time for the care of the sick. As for our own regiment, Major Smith insisted that he preferred keeping the sick under the direct observation of himself and the assistant surgeons. However, a close supervision was kept of the cases and any one that bid fair to be pro- tracted for a length of time was transferred to the Division hospital.
According to general order No. 58, of the war depart- ment, a limited number of enlisted men of the volunteer service were given an opportunity to be transferred to the hospital corps of the United States Army. The Third Division hospital at the time of arrival of the regiment at Panama Park had just been started, and the demands on the accommodations of the same by reason of a heavy per cent. of sickness in some of the other regiments, made it necessary for us to furnish our quota of men to act as nurses within a few days after our arrival. At their own request the following men were transferred: Company A, Horace Lucas, Jean Crandall, Andrew Larson, S. Byerly, Harry C. Kimball; Company B, Burle Turner and Edward Walter; Company D, Wesley Dall, Michael Logan, Marcus Renfrow; Company E, John Griffith, Jesse Dunhan; Com- pany F, Granville Williams, William Prifogle, Sylvester Wright; Company G, J. Morris Leech, John Dolan, Will- iam T. Engel, Alonzo Allen; Company H, Leven Wallace, Clarence Heaton; Company I, Jacob W. Dexter, Franklin G. Scott; Company K, John Romain, James Keith, Harry McCoy, Fred Rowell; Company L, J. G. B. Jones, T.
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Johanna; Company M, John Cox, Ernest Bales. These men when transferred would draw the increased pay of $21.60 per month. Lucas was soon made acting steward. Walters and Griffith were immediately detailed back to the regiment, Walters as orderly to Major Smith, and Griffith as hostler, which positions they held until exchanged, April 30, 1899. Not many good things can be said of the hos- pital at Camp Cuba Libre, nor are many pleasant memories stored away by those connected with it during the long dreadful siege of malaria that followed. The first hospital was erected on the second day after arrival, and consisted of a tent, 14 x 16, furnished with two bales of hay for beds, and for four weeks of rainy weather was without a floor, due (is it to be presumed) to the scarcity of lumber in that region of pine forests? No provisions were made for feed- ing the sick, other than from their regular rations, which had already become repulsive to their weak stomachs. Milk was hard to get in that barren country, as well as ice, another very desirable article for the sick; but it was not long until the Red Cross Society came to our assistance with ice each day. A short time afterward the society pre- sented the hospital with a large chest, which proved very useful. Getting the floor seemed to be a good starter, for in a few days Colonel Durbin ordered a lot of matresses dropped at the door; the hay was discarded and the patients put on real beds, Eighteen cots were next secured from the medical supply house. About this time a nice lot of bed linens, night shirts and towels were received from the ladies of Monticello, Indiana, and also jellies, canned fruit and fruit juices were received from the Woman's Relief Corps, of Indianapolis, which had been collected from different parts throughout the state. Soon after a very large box, containing new sheets, feather pil- lows, pillow cases and towels, was sent direct from the
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Pettis Dry Goods Company, of Indianapolis, by these same Woman's Relief Corps ladies. These articles and the foods were doubly appreciated, on account of coming in a time when so sorely needed. The culinary department also began to receive some attention. A stove was found and a few dishes and the mess and food chest, drawn from the medical supply depot, fitted up a very respectable kitchen. On the 14th of September, Louis C. Benica was detailed as cook, and remained with the kitchen as long as the hospital existed. For the first ten days after our arrival at Camp Cuba Libre the sick call was somewhat lighter than at Camp Mount, but the frequent showers and hot sun soon got in their work, and the line that filed up to the dispen- sary behind the sergeant in charge each morning became a little longer. The happy, enthusiastic boys of a fortnight before were becoming a listless and forlorn-looking crowd, their systems loaded down with malarial poison. It would be impossible for pen to describe the suffering these men passed through in getting acclimated to the sunny south.
On September 4th the regiment was shocked by the first death, that of Earnest R. Pullman, of Company A, who dove off of a railroad trestle into the shallow water of Trout Creek striking his head on the bottom. After being rescued by his comrades and brought to camp it was found that he had broken his spine just below the shoulders. He lived only thirty hours after receiving the injury. Steward Lewis was admitted to the hospital the latter part of August with a temperature of 103º. It was thought his illness was only temporary, but in a few days complications arose and he was sent to the division hospital, where it was hoped that better care and food would cause him to rally but he failed to improve and died the 8th of September. His loss was deeply regretted by his host of friends in the regiment and those at home. Dr. George B. Jones was chosen steward
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in his place. Just about this time Steward Espey was taken sick and Geo. W. Twomey, of Company E, a med- ical student, was detailed to the hospital, where he remained until the regiment landed in Cuba. In September Ralph H. Kenner, of Company H, was detailed as drug clerk and with the exception of nine days that he was sick you would have found him at his post day and night. Kenner was a most faithful clerk and was kept very busy filling, while at Cuba Libre, two and three hundred prescriptions per day. Not all the boys had implicit faith in the remedies pre- scribed, partly perhaps because the drugs did not have the same effect they would have had under different surround- ings and in another climate, consequently quite an amount of malarial specific was disposed of in a way not intended by the prescriber. In one instance pills and powders enough to fill a quart cup were found under the bunk of a young man who had been furloughed home. He had been an- swering sick call for quite a while and had disposed of his medicine in this way instead of swallowing it.
In the latter part of September, the service of a lady nurse, Miss Mollie Ward, was secured, which was a great advantage to the hospital and an improved appearance was most apparent after a few days in care of Miss Ward. She was a sister of Lieutenant Ward, of Company I, and a graduate of the Chicago Training School. About this time a new bath house was built and it was at this time that an effort was being put forth to secure the allowance of sixty cents per day granted by the government to each patient in the hospital. This was not secured, however, until a month later and the hospital had to depend on money secured from friends for means to pay the laundry bills and buy milk for the patients, there being ten gallons used daily. On October Ist, Hospital Steward Espey started for his home in Indiana, more dead than alive, where after a.
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lingering illness he recovered, but applied for his discharge, which was granted without returning to the regiment. On October 18th, Major Smith was taken sick and removed to
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a hotel in Jacksonville, and three days later started for his home in Indiana on a thirty days' sick leave. Lieutenant Gerrish was now placed in charge of the medical depart- ment and Lieutenant Wilson, who had been detailed to the Third Division hospital, was returned to the regiment. It had required a detail of two men from the regiment all the time as nurses and although inexperienced these men were always faithful and did their duty as best they could; they received no extra pay but they will be most gratefully remembered by those who were recipients of their kindness. Those who were regularly detailed and remained for a length of time were: Marshall D. Dickey, Company F; Charles Best, Company I; Samuel J. Weaver, Company F, at Jacksonville, Savannah and in Cuba; John Myers, Company E; John W. Wilson, Company G; Charles Nash, 27
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Company G; Henry Spencer, Company M. On the night of October Ist, began a rain which ended in a wind storm lasting all next day that will always be remembered. The hospital was only saved by being tied down and even as it was the bedding got soaked and a large quantity of the drugs destroyed. After this storm jaundice seemed to increase and the men began to look more like a race of Mongolians than Americans.
Up to this time only one death had occurred in the regimental hospital, Fred Shræder, of Company A, who died very suddenly on October 14 of a hemorrhage of the bowels during an attack of typhoid fever. On October 22 the patients remaining in the regimental hospital, some fifty or sixty in number, were removed to the Third Division hos- pital preparatory to our leaving for Savannah the next day. Some of these poor fellows never lived to join the regi- ment. Others were furloughed home and granted dis- charges. Few came back. Sixty-four was the highest number in the regimental hospital at one time, and when the regiment left for Savannah there was hardly a person who had not suffered from some form of malaria. On Oc- tober 16 a large wooden building that would accommodate fifty or more patients was completed and ready for use. This came too late to be of much service.
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