Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-04-04
ROUND AND ROUND.
The Recorded Movements and
Stations of the Fifth In
fantry Till Now.
From Mexico to Alaska; the
Lava Beds and Orange
Groves.
stations of the Fifth.

SS' Nity - HIthlly ln'
terested In the proposed movements OF
the Fifth infantry, and statistics are
also eagerly received. A correspond.
ent writing from Fort Keogh to the
Register, March 9th, furnishes the fol.
lowing alter ginning up another corre-
spondent who wanted to beat the
rwenty-Third out of their present To-
cation. The sorrtspondentsays:
IL am not authorized to speak for
the Fifth infantry; if 1 were, would
uot begin by asking the stations. of an
other regiment by name. The Tween
ty-Third infantry has earned theright
TO an eastern station by many years OF
service on the western frontier from
Alaska to Arizona. III IL is now hav-
ing rect n vicinity TO civilization, at
stations close to good schools and col
leges where the inevitable army
youngsters can be properly educated; |;
and close to cities where army people
can taste the intellectual food which
comes by association with the opera,
theatre and lecture course; where the
bachelors can get good wives and the
maidens good husbands; And, in fact Z,
where city life can be enjoyed In all
that the term means without the pay
ment Of high taxes, why, say, let the
good old Twepty-Third have its rest
ful, comfortable tour, undisturbed by
even the intimstion that some other
regiment wants its stations.
There are those in the Fifth infantry
who prefer not to name the station
where they wish to go, but who do
wish to be heard a. to where they
should not 20. We do not want to 20
back to an exile " orse than our pres.
ent station, neither to Texas, Arizons
nor New Mexico. These would be
stations we do not deserve. We ask
more restful ones than any Of these.
A brother officer who is "Old Anti
quarry" himself as to dates and places
has shown me o memorandum of the
stations occupied by the Fifth infan-
try headquarters since 1912. Here IL
il: 1912, Belle Fountain Barracks,
No.; lsl3-lSl6, records lost; 1917. Fort
Gratiot, Mich; 1920, Camp Cold
Spring; 1921, Saint Peter; 1921, Fort
St. Anthony, Mimi; 1924, Fort SMELL
ing, Minn.; 1920, Fort Howard, Mich; /;
1887, Fort Crawford, Wyo.; lS42, De.
troit Barracks, Mich; 1916, New Or
leans; ls45, Corpus Christi: ls4S, Nacu-
bsya; 1850, Ringgold Barracks, Cex.;
1856, Fort Meyers, Fla; 1875, New Or.
leans; 1857, Camp Scott, Utab; 1858,
Camp Floyd; 1860, Albuquerque. N.
NJ; 1860, Fort Fontleroy, n. NJ; 1861,
Fort Craig, n. NJ; 1866, Fort Bliss,
Tex; 1865, Fort Sumner, n. NJ; 1868
Fort Harker, Kans. ISL, Fort Leaven,
worth, Kans.; 1875, Fort Keogh, NJ
T.; lSss, where We don't know.
1t Is thought this record justifies tn,
claim of the Fifth Infantry to stations
eastward OF the Mississippi river foi
some time 20 come. There may be
other infantry regiments which hsv,
had az long continuous duty on the
frontier west Of the Mississippi river
| do not know Of any. but II so thei
claims are entitled to the same con
sideration AZ ours.n
Not within the memory of man ha,
the Fifth Infantry had any favoritisn
given ii. The absense of il has led u
toexpect (often disappointed only jus
tice. Since 1865 the cavalry aud in
fantry have served as pioneers Of oul
country's westward march. They
have cleared the territories, one aftel
another; made them safe for the on
coming tide OF settlers from the east,
and to the Fihh InIautry an honor
able share IL due OF the credit Of Civ
ius to settlement the msgniti cent val.
leys of the Yellowstone river and its
tributaries. We have been In this
territory IL years next July. We have
not been east Of the Mississippi river
since 1856. We are deserving Of the
highest consideration and the best sta
tious east Of the Mississippi river
which are properly garrisonsd by an
infantry regiment, with just regard
to the situation of other deserving reg.
imeuts, whose just dues We do not
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