Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-30
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

Four Companies of the Seventh Trans
ferred to the Department of the Mis-
souri,.
There was a decided stir at Gen. Terry
headquarters, yesterday, which will extend
throughout the department to the great dis
comfort of many army people.
Orders were received directing that
the four companies of the Seventh Infantry,
now stationed at Fort Smelling, be sent to the
department of the Missouri, Gen. John Pope's
command, at the earliest practical moment.
It will be remembered that at
the time of the Ute outbreak
and death of Major Thornburgh, that eight
companies of the Seventh Infantry were sent to
Colorado under the command of Lieut. Colonel
Gilbert. The removal of the companies at
Smelling is doubtless to consolidate the regi-
ment, with the view of building and garrison
ing new post in the White River district of
Colorado and Utah. The order will take the
following companies and officers out of this
department.:
Colonel-John Gibbon.
Maior-D. q. Brotherton.
Adjutant-First Lieutenant L. F. Burnett.
Regimental OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Lieuten-
ant J. w. Jacobs.
Company A-Captain, G. a. Coolidge; First
Lieutenant, f. 81. M. Kendrick Second Lieuten-
ant, Francis Woodbridge.
Company D-Captain, Richard Comba; First
lieutenant, Daniel Robinson.
Company G-Captain, G.. L. Browning;
First Lieutenant, G. b. Wright Second Lieuten-
ant, s. Il. Douglass.
Company captain, O. c. Rawn; First
Lieutenant. J. T. Van Orsdale; Second Lieu
tenant A. B. johnson.
Besides the above. the families of the other
officers in the field will be transported to their
new quarters or station.
Fort Smelling, after the above troops have
taken their departure will be garrisoned by
two companies of the Seventeenth infantry
from Fort Yates, orders to that effect having
been issued by Gen. Terry. The ortunate
companies and officers are
Company B-Captain, E. P. carson; First
Lieutenant, James Brennan Second Lieuten-
ant W. A. Mann.
Company H-Oaptain. 81. s. Howe First
Lieutenant, Alexander Ogle Second Lieuten-
ant, O. st. J. Chubb.
The above transfer of troops will be inau-
gurated at an early date.
TROOPS IN THE FIELD.
It is proposed at department head
auarterters, but the detail of the move
ment is not completed, to put a
large force in the field during the coming sum-
mer. The design is to place the troops along
the line of the extension of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad, and thus afford protection to the
engineers and working parties of this enter
prise from any probable raiding parties of In
dams. A central cantonment will be located,
from which operations will take place, and the
troops, besides afford1ng protection to railroad
parties, will act as corps of observation and
menace to Sitting Bull if he designs another
raid across the British boundary during the
coming season.
The command of these troops, which it is
expected will comprise Seventh cavalry detach-
ments from Forts Lincoln and Custer, will be
entrusted to Major Lewis Merrill, Seventh
United States cavalry. While the department
commander has not fully determined what
companies will take the field, force of at
least ten companies will be placed on the duty
stated,