Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-09-18
army News.
DErARTMENr OF DAKOTA. ).
HEADQUARTERS Sr. PAUL. MINI.

Special Orders, No. ia.
Paragraph 2, special orders, No.
1G4, current series, from this head.
quartersis SO modified as topostEonc
the idatcof meeting Of the generzl
court martial therein appointed to
Thursday, the 2lst day Of October,
1879.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Il. G.
Redd, o. S. A., having reported at
this headquarters ia obedience to in
structions from the surgeon general of
the army, is assigned to duty at Fort
Lincoln, ID. T., to which
post he will proceed without delay
and report to the commanding officer,
believing Acting Assistant Surgeon
w. Dubose, U. S. A., who, upon
being relieved, will comply with the
instructions to him from the surgeon
general, dated Aug. 4, 1873, directing
that he report in person to the mcdi-
cal director department of the south
for assignment to duty.
A general court martial is appoint
ed to meet at Fort Wadswor,h, ID. T.,
on Thursday, the 10th day Of Septem.
ber, 1875, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, for the trial of Corporal
John McDermott, company B, seven.
teenth infantry, and such other per-
sons as may properly be brought be
fore it.
n,4.;l r.. tl,, oo,,rt. ;ont-. G,,l
w. P. Carlin, seventeenth infantry /;
Capt. Malcolm Macarthur, seventeenth
infantry; First Lieut.. T.. NJ. O'Brien,
seventeenth infantry; First Lieut.. +.
ID. Garretty, seventeenth infantry;
First Lieut.. Robert Cairns, seven
teenth infantry; Capt. G. f. Bennett,
seventeenth infantry, Judge advocate.
Tie tetegraptlic instruction from
this headquarters OF this date to the
commanding officer Fort Randall, ID.
T., directing that three companies Of
the seventh cavalry "a, E and H,)
now under his command, be concen.
tratcd and placed en- route for For
Rice, ID. I. without unnecessary de
lay; that the wagon train from Fort
Abcrcrombie now at his post be uset
as transportation for the movement
that such heavy public stores ane
property as cannot be carried BY
wagon, and the sick and laundresscs
be shipped by boat; that neccssar.
forage be drawn from the variou
posts passed enAroute; and that til
wagon train after completing its worl
proceed at once to the depot at For
Abercrombic for winter quarters, az
confirmed.
Special Orders, No. Ia.
Captain Myles Moylan, seventh Ca,
airy, Fort Randall, d. T., will repo,
10 person at this headquarters on put
lio business.
The telegram from this thcaddual
:, tiers Of the 9th inst, to the command
ing officer Fort Wadsworth, ID. I
directing that an officer be seslt theme
to Fort, ,Abercromhie, to take chara
= OF and conduct 10 Fort WAdswort
i detachment Of recruits for the con
panies Of the seventeenth infanti
stationed at that post, is confirmed:
The telegraphic instructions fro
This headquarters Of the 9th inst,
the commm. ling officer Fort Abraha
Lincoln, D. a. directing tila: upt
3 arrival at his post from Fort Abe
crombic of detachment Of recruit
for the companies Of the seventeen
infantry stationed thereat, and at Il
posts of Fort Rice and Standing Ro.
and Cheyenne agencies, he cause 4
officer in charge Of the detachment
,a I,s at once relieved and sent back
i.; Fort Ahcrorombie; and also ,hat
forward to their destinations tue !
q cruits Tor the, three posts last abo
named are confirmed.