The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-01
a FEW FORCED MARCHES.
Infantry Averages but rfftcen Miles Dag
Ancient Figures.


Ancient Figures.
A dispatch from Fort Robinson, Neb,
nehtions an exceptisnal march made by
the Eighth United States cavalry, COM
rnanded by CD. ]. Misener, from Fort
Davis, Tex, having Fort Meade, d. T.,
for its destination, distance of 1850
miles. The regiment reached For! Rob
inson on the 26th of August, having
made 1,55O miles Of the march, leaving
100 miles still to go.o The regiment left
Fort PAWS on. Nay II, and reached Fort
Meade on Sept. 3, making the time 100
days, and an average Of a fraction over
fifteen miles q day, q rate of travelling
considered exceedingly good. The band
and regimeiital Headquarters accom-
| panied tho expeditions. This moves I'is
merely one'ta the ordinary changes of
quarters, and Ia Of interest only as an
isitial sep tpwara a change of .system in
transporting troeps Where tune is of
ittA, tobjsst. the: government has con-
cluded to adopt the plan Of marches in
stead Of using the railroad, Thereby saw
1ngls4e Sst, Of tfapspostat iopEss :, very,
cQnSider4Pls item. or Course this can
on1f on1y, be dor y N che open c6aftry, bu}
cveif thefe Sfftlr ereSe& yAd%l,e slnnd ID
iecomihg settletRss S1aesaabaharb wird
Fence lis frcqua1tlp psn1et niithx&s an ob|
Straactim. 10 sa-s1o "a 81 ys,.als ~
ia 4Lisuts, III Nv, " sKea4Qph af-dercanI
on Gen. Crooks staff, whose main hobby
by the way, IS ,tacticss he haying writteij
q number qf Exhaustive articles upon thai
t.ztitCject. bfih lately appnrfngin Thc Arhs
and Navy Journal, cxsse&sed tho opinion
that the system would become very popl
niar, fuf, besides the saving HI expense,
ie claims 10 is the best Sort OF drill, hard
eniig and 'tougheningt tho troops as would
no other method. Fourteen, to fifteen
miles a,day is considered fair pace; ovcj
| fifteen is called quick marching, and ovei
| twenty is set down in military books as
forced march, but there have been some
rare instances Of quick marching that
make the ordinary forced march seem
HE Ilay. - aaaf I'D t1n
Moving a. xhelenarmy, consisting Of
infantry, cavalry, artillery, with the ac-
companying baggagc wagons and army
necessaries, is vastly different from tile
transportation of single regiment of id
fantry or'cavafry. Napoleon is credited
Will having peTlOrileu tlle lslUSt aStOD-
ishing feat of this character ON record
when in 1905 be marched his eptirc army
from the channel to the Rhine, a distance
of 400 miles, in twenty-five days, sixteen
miles day. The historian Gibbon tells
of a march of the Sultan Galaleddin in
1900 with his troops Of 1000 miles, max
ing fifty eight miles day. The same
authority mentions an incident a century
later when Mira Meheddin Sultan
marched with $4,000 soldiers $50 miles
in Eve days, but states that the penaky
of the commanders ardor was the lossoi
10000 Of his men, reaching his destiria-
ticn with but A, 900.
During the late war Gen. Grierson,
now colonel of the Tenth cavalry, marched
600 miles in sixteen days through the
enerny's country; this was at the rate OF
thirty-seven and half miles day
4 Later than this, some time in 1878, Gen.
Stanley marched through Montana aiid
Dakota with regiment Of infantry 00{
miles in twcnty-eight days, thirty-twc
miles q day-Chicago Herald