The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-27
THE EXPECTED ORDER
Changes Made in Location of
United States Army.
EAST GAINS FROM THE WEST

EAST GAINS FROM THE WEST
When the New Posts in Montana and
Colorado Are Completed Troops will
be Further Concentrated - List of
Posts That Will be Abandoned.
WASHINGTON, September 1S.-The Or
der anxiously awaited in army circles
providing for extensive changes in the
location of the United States army was
issued to-day. They provide garrisons
for the old recruiting depots, and also
contemplate a considerable concentra-
ton of troops. Several of the smaller
stations east of the Mississippi, as we'll
few in the Western country, are given
up as no longer necessary. The regi-
ments which are to be brought East in
whole or in part are the Third and Sixth
Cavalry, the Thirteenth and Seventeeth
Infantry and the whole Twentieth In
fantry, now stationed at Fort Leaven-
worth. The Tenth Infantry, that has
heretofore been scattered between five
posts from the Pacific Coast to the Mis-
| sissippi Valley, will now come together
at Sill and Reno, while the whole Fifth
! Regiment, formerly occupying five sta
tons, will be assembled at Fort McPher-
son, Ga. AS soon as some changes are
made in the quarters at Jefferson Bar
, racks and Columbus Barracks, the two
| troops of cavalry now ordered to the
former will be joined by four other
troops, and the remainder of the Seven
| teenth Infantry will be sent to Columbus
! Barracks, making the latter regimental
post. David's Island will be occupied by
/ the artillery as a modern fertilization,
which has been constructed there to COM
mand the sound entrance to New York
harbor and is now receiving the arma-
ment required as an artillery garrison.
Fort Columbus on Governors Island
will hereafter be an infantry post, to be
ultimately increased to a full regiment.
The total number of companies now
serving east of the Mississippi is 100. In
future it will be 119, occupying thirty
one posts. The gain to the East, of
course, comes from the West, but the
number of posts remaining west of the
Mississippi is forty mine, and those are
garrisoned by 245 companies, without
counting the Indian mpanies, of which
there are seven. 1t will be seen, there
fore, not more than two-thirds of the
regular army still remains IN the W est.
Congress has ordered the building of
two new posts, one in Montana and one
in Arkansas. When these are COM
pleted other points will be given up and
troops still further concentrated. Gen
eral Towards command will be in
creased to nineteen companies. The de-
| partment of the Platte losses seven,
Colorado four and Dakota eight. The
order itself is as follows:
First Regiment-Troop A from Fort
Myer, Va, department of the East to
department of Colorado.
! Second Regiment-The Junior Major
and three troops from Colorado to Fort
Riley, Kan, and Troop F from Fort
Worth to Fort Riley; the Lieutenant
Colonel and Troops B and from Fort
Bowie, A. T., to Fort Logan, Col.
Third Regiment-The Senior Major
and Troops G, E, F and G, now tempo
rarily at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, to Fort
Ethan Allen, VT, the movement to take
place October l j; headquarters and two
| troops, one of them Troop D, from Okla
homa Territory, by October l and the
Junior Major to Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Sixth Regiment-From the depart
| ment of the Platte to the departments
of the Missouri and East; headquarters
Junior Major and Troops A, E, G and II,
now temporarily at Fort Sherman, ILL.,,
to Fort Myer; the Lieutenant Colonel
from Jefferson Barracks and the three
remaining troops to Fort Leavenworth,
the movement to commence October 1.
The Indian Troop L will remain at Fort
Niobrara.
Seventh Regiment-Senior Major and
Troop F from Fort Myer to Fort Stanton,
NM; the Lieutenant-C Colonel to Fort Ri
Eighth Regiment-Troop H from Fort
Myer and Troop d from Fort Leaven-
worth to the department of Dakota.
Ninth Regiment-Troop K from Fort
Myer to the department of the Platte.
| Tenth Regiment-Troop l from Fort
Leavenworth to the department OF Da-
kota.
Troops of the Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth Regiments, as in the foregoing,
will move upon the arrival OF the incom-
ing troops for Fort Myer.
| ARTILLERY.
Third Regiment-The Junior Major
and two batteries to Jackson Barracks,
La.
First Regiment-One company from
San Francisco harbor to San Diego Bar
racks, to relieve Company G, Tenth In
fantry, without unnecessary delay.
Fifth Regiment-To be concentrated
at Fort Mcpherson, Ga; Company A at
Fort Leavenworth and F at Houston,
Tex.
Sixth Regiment-Company A from
Fort Wood, n. Y, and E from Newport
Barracks to Fort Thomas, KY.
| Seventh Regiment-Compa ID now
at Fort Leavenworth, and G at Camp
| Pilot Butte to Fort Logan.
Eighth Observation-Disclosures and
three companies from Fort Mckinney to
Fort D. A. Russell. j.
| Tenth Regiment-The department OF
| Missouri headquarters and four compa-
MES to Fort Reno and four companies to
| Fort Sill, the distribution to include two
companies at Fort Leavenworth.
| Twelfth Observation-Disclosures and
| Companies E and 81 from Fort Leaven-
worth and Companies B, @ and u from
Fort Sullivan to Fort Niobrara.
| Fourteenth Regiment-Company ID
| from Fort Leavenworth to Vancouver