The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-06
DETAILED FOR CAMP BRADLEY.
Major BAbcoek. U. s. Army Will Inspect
 the Connecticut Troops.


 Major BAbeeek. U. s. Army win Inspect
 the Connecticut Troops.
 Major John B. Babeoek. assistant ad- jutant general. who will inspect the Connecticut troops at Camp Bradley. is a cavalry officer of much experience and was recently appointed to the ad. outant generals department.
 He was born in New Orleans. Louis iana. February '. ls43. Major Babcoek Is descended from an old Rhode Island family. His great-great-grandfather Joshua Babcock. was twice chief jus tice of Rhode Island, and major of Rhode Island militia during the revolu- tion. Major Babcock's great-grand fa- ther. Henry Babcock. served i've cam paigns in the French and Indian war.
 During the war he served as second lieutenant. first lieutenant. adjutant. captain and major of the New York state volunteers (One Hundred and Seventy-fourth and One Hundred and Sixty-second,) and was brevetted lieu tenant-colonel: was present with the regiment in the battle of Plains Store, Port Hudson. Sabine Crossroads, Pleas ant Hill, Monett's Bluff. Mansura Plains and Yellow Bayou. all in Louisiana; was with his regiment under General Grant at the seige of Petersburg, Vir- ginia, and in the campaign of General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley: was at the age of twenty-two major and adjutant-general of the military district of Savannah and inspector gen. eraf First division Nineteenth Army corps. Since the war, for twenty-five years, this officer has served continu- ously with his troop. For fifteen years after the war, Captain Babcock was almost constantly in the field, winter and summer engaged in campaigns of the most severe character against hos tile Indians.
 The following is brief statement of the campaigns and Indian fights in which this officer has engaged:
 Contiuous campaign with his regi- ment under General Carr, against the asKiowas and Southern Cheyennes, last ing from November 1868, to August 1869, without leaving the field, march ing from Kansas to Texas and back to Nebraska, through the storms of severe winter, driving the Indians east ward and fighting them at Beaver creek and Spring creek, Nebraska, and Summit springs. Colorado. At Spring creek his troop, then reduced to thirty three men, was attacked by the whole village of Cheyenne and Sioux Indians under Tall Bull. Captain Babcock de- tended the position for two hours, until relieved by the regiment. At Summit springs the regiment captured a camp of eighty-six lodges, killing seventy two Indians, capturing five hundred ponies and releasing two white women, and putting an end to the war with these bands. From November, 1871, for three years, Captain Babcock served in Arizona under General Crook, and was almost constantly in the field. Having attracted the attention of Gen. eral Crook by successful hard service in the mountains, he was kept in the field under general instructions to hunt up hostile Indians; was twice thanked in general orders-G. O.! IA and G. o. 24, Department of Arizona, 1873; was wounded in the breast by an arrow and recommended for the brevets of lieutenant-colonel and colonel.
 Under date of November IS, 1874, Gen. eral Crook writes of this officer as fol- lows:
 "The official records of my depart ment show that since his first assign ment to duty, Lieutenant J. B. Babcock has been one of the most gallant, effc- tent and distinguished officers that have ever served in Arizona"
 His last service in Arizona was the military , control of the turbulent Apaches On the San Carlos reservation. Going north with his regiment, Cap tain Babcock was again in the field in Northern Wyoming, during the winter of 1877 and again from June to Decem- Der, 1878, and from January, 1879, to the spring of that year. In the latter cam paign the regiment marched through the snows of Northern Nebraska against the Cheyennes. In October, 1879, the famous Ute outbreak occurred. Captain Babcock marched his troop, as part of General Merritt's command, ,one hundred and seventy miles in sixty five hours-in time to take part in the relief of Major Thurnburg's command and the fight that followed in the field until July. In 1885 he marched six hundred miles and took part in the protection of the Kansas border from the threatened raids of | Southern Cheyennes, remaining in the | field all the spring and until July. From 1887 to 1889, Captain Babcock l was assistant instructor in the Art of | War, sat the D. s. Infantry and Cavalry | school, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas In | the summer of 1889, he was adjutant | general of the Camp of Instruction for | the troops in the Department of Mis- | souri,. .t.a h.. Since 1889, he has been assistant in- structor in the department of cavalry | of the U. s. Infantry and Cavalry school, which position he now holds in additisn, to the command of his troop. He was in the field with his troop at | Pine Ridge agency during the Ghost Dance war last year.
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