St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-15
IN BRASS BUTTONS.
The Soldiers of the Regular Army
and Their Movements


The department commander has Or
dered the following changes in the tar
get practice season: Fort Keogh-Com-
panies a, B, D, III and K. Twenty-sec-
ond infantry, June Is to July Is and
September: Company G, Twenty-second
infantry, June Is to July Is, inclusive;
Company F, Twenty second infantry,
June Is to July 81, inclusive. Fort Gus
ter, Mont.-Companies A and d, Twen-
ty-ffth infantry, June Is to July Is. and
September. Fort Maginnis, Mont
Company A, Twentieth infantry, June
Is to July Is, and September. Forts
Shaw and Snelling-September is sub
stituted for the month of May. Forts
Meade, Sisseton and Totten. Oak, and
Missoula, MOnt.-June 10 to July Is,
and September.
Friday morning First Lieut.. William
H. Johnson, Jr., Sixteenth infantry,
of absence, and proceed to st. Louis,
Mo-, where, the morning of the 9th, he
| will be married to Miss Lucille Barat
Wilkinson, a great granddaughter of
the famous Gen. James Wilkinson, who
was adjutant general of Gates army in
1777, during the campaign which led to
the surrender of the British under Gen.
Burgoyne at Saratoga, after the battles
of Bemis' Heights, and who subse-
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army of the United States.
From Columbus Barracks, o., are Or
dered so recruits for the Fifth infantry
and 10 for the Nineteenth infantry:
| from Davd's Island. 10 recruits for the
Nineteenth infantry, 10 colOred for the
! TwentY-fifth infantry. Is for the Ninth
infantry and 20 for the Tenth infantry;
from Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, % re-
cruits for the Fourth cavalry.
dered the transfer to the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth of military con-
victs, Walter G. O'Brien, late of Troop
I. Seventh cavalry; George Milward,
late of Troop X, Seventh cavalry; Frank
Guy, late of Company K, Twenty-fifth
infantry, and George Fuller, late of
Company II, Twenty-fifth infan4ry.
| During the month of June the troops
at Fort Custer, Mont, will drill Mon
Days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
be held. Until further orders, ire
treat roll calls are suspended at this
post, in order that the enlisted men of
the command may avail themselves of
the river bathing during the summer
months.
Capt. James a. Snyder, Third in
fantry, Fort Meade, Oak, has been
found by an army retiring board in
capacitated for active service, and he is
granted leave of absence pending his
retirement.
Capt. Frank D. Garretty, Seventeenth
infantry, recruiting officer at st. Paul,
| has been authorized to avail himself of
seven days leave of absence.
The secretary of war has designated
First Lieut.. Robert X. Evans, Twelfth
infantry, Fort Yates, OAK, for special
service at the Fort Leavenworth mill
tary prison, and he is ordered to report
partment of the Missouri for assign
ment.
Maj. Evan Miles, Twenty-fifth in
| fantry, has been announced as inspector
| of rifle practice for the department of
| Dakota.
Four thousand rifle bullets, calibre
45, and two thousand rifle ball cart
| ridges, calibre 45, are ordered issued to
Company B, Fifteenth infantry, Fort
| Pembina, Oak.
Leave of absence for one month, with
permission to apply for an extension of
one month, has been granted Maj. Cal
van Dewitt, surgeon United States
army, Fort Sully, Oak.
First Lieut.. II. ID. Reed, Twenty-ffth
infantry, has been appointed acting
ordnance officer for the post of Fort
MiSsOula, Mont, vice Second Lieut.. G.
W. Kennedy, Third infantry, relieved.
First Lieut.. George Bell, Jr., Third
infantry, has relinquished the duties of
quartermaster and commissary officer
for the post of Fort Missoula to First
Lieut.. c. A. Deyol, Twenty-tifth infan-
try.
Gen. Ringer has directed the COM
manding officer of Fort Smelling to for
ward the twenty-nine recruits for the
Twelfth infantry, now at that post to
Fort Sully for assignment to companies
stationed there.
AT present the number of graduates
from the military academy exceed by
twenty the number of vacancies in the
military establishment; but the retire
ments completed will provide vacancies
for forty second lieutenants before
Nov. /, 1883.