, 1876-12-22
THE TWENTY SECOND INFANTRY.


GLESp1yE, Mon., Nov. 25.-Fery few OF your
readers know where Glendive is. or have even
heard OF it, though the name has melting. liquid
sound that one would remember when heard. Dut
many of your readers know the Twenty second
Infantry, which, for two years, anu until the Gus
ter disaster occupied the military posts along your
lake shores A battalion OF the Twenty second
Infantry is now at Glendivc, aud GlendiSe Is III
Montana, on the left bank OF the Yellowstone
River. about 100 miles from its mouth, and oppo-
site the mouth of G1endiSc Greek. Three months
ago its site WAS a brush plain, upon which few
white men had never troddcn, when suddenly, in q
day an army IF Mcn with hundreds OF wagons SAT
down uron it.: following them came some hair-dozen
steamboats, on the river, and in another day the
bank Of the Yellowstone was piled hlgh with 1ood
for man and beast
The occasion was the ending OF Gen. Terrys e1-
pedition agaust the Sioux, here it was broken up,
md the troops comprising it started from here for
their respective stations. But, alas, not all OF
them Tho battalion Of the Twenty second In
fautry which had been sent ont in haste from their
comfortable posts on the lakes after custer un-
fortunate fight was LETT behind. There was not
much delay in starting by the homeward bound;
they all had important business elsewhere but
first Of all went the newspaper correspondents,
who had stuck to us closer than mother all sum
1ncr and helped cut our rations: They aaw no
field here for news, only army rations to eat and
nothing to drink, an. they sansheh n, |,a.a, +h
Ina few days there was a. Glchalsc onty Tue
Twenty second Infantry, Lieut. -Coi Otis In CON-
r1and q wagon train, and mountain OF army
stores, Then began the work Of removing the
stores to the new post on Tongue RiycI, more than
Il hundred miles furthe. up, and this has been
voing on ever since The train Is always on
hs ns road along win back + sd stf01t 55sea
here and Tongue River. We make the
round trip Of about 100 miles. loading and unload
inc in about two weeke, and then some Of us start
right back again for another trip fo1 two.thirds OF
little monotonous after whl'~ I'D we have learn
| I'd to know the road quite thora ghiy; conld keep
to it we think any dark night without trouble. We
| believe it was supposed when we were lett here,
1T Tongue River before this time. hut our masters
calculated badly, for, from present appearances,
some time next spring Will about remove the out-
| TT
| Three years ago Gen. Sherman. when before a
Congressional Committee urging large appropria.
ton for transportation. said that the Twenty second
had then been out the frontier eight years. and
that some Of the officers dnrlny that time had not
| seen a woman except their own wives, and he
wanted to bring them, in to the States awhile
! to Give them the advantages OF civilization.
| tine year afterwards he sucCecded in getting
| ,s in. but here VIZ again Ut the extreme o1
our old stamping .solrtl- between the Missouri
| aud the Yellowstone. Directly opposite here vt
| were in camp IN 1873, while escortng Northern
| Pacific Railroad surveying party. and no." we &c
not wives, the solc privilege so plead'ngl,
suited by Zen. Sherman; not woman has anY o
us seen since July last. must make one exccp
tlon o.the last statement; q few weeks since
:utlefs train carried tro women past here t
Tongue River They were a little ..otf color Il
be sure, hut they wore skfrts, and We looked q
them with sin5dEar interest
Since we dropped down here we have oee1
Joined BY two wandering companies OF the seven