The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-09
SIXTH CAVALRY Is
ANXIOUS TO SERVE
Eight Hundred Men Fin Route
to China on the
Grant.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s.-Oficers
and men of the Sixth Cavalry, now at
the Presidio, are delighted with the
prospect of seeing active work in Chi
ma, and are getting themselves in trim
as rapidly as possible for the duty be-
fore them. There will be intense dis
appointment If the regiment is ordered
to the Philippines instead of China. All
feel that history is awaiting them in
the flowery empire. and as most of the
officers are ambitious and the men full
of vim there is eagerness to get to the
front.
| In all 500 officers and men of the Sixth
will leave on the Grant, presumably for
/ Chefoo. These comprise two squadrons,
the First and Third. The Second squad
ron will remain in California.
| Troop ID arrived yesterday from Fort
Sill, making up the eight troops await
ing transportation on the Grant. The
| First Squadron consists of Troop,
from Fort Riley. Captain w. w. For
syth: Il Troop from Fort Leavenworth,
Lieutenant A. V. p. Anderson; Troop,
from Fort Logan, Captain Grote Hut
Johnson. Lieutenant c. d. Rhodes Lieu
tentnt Warren Dean; d Troop. from
Fort Sill. Captain A. Blockson, Lieuten-
FAINT Corcoran. The Third squadron is
composed of I Troop, from Fort Sill
Lieutenant William Lee Karnes; 4
Troop, from Fort Leavenworth, Cap
tain X. y. Paddock, Lieutenant F. r.
) Buchan; l. Troop, from Fort Reno
Lieutenant B. 3. Hyer; NJ. Troop, from
jefferson Barracks, Captain de Rosey
c. Cabell.
The Colonel of the Sixth Cavalry I:
! Brigadier-General S. S. Sumner, who
commanded a cavalry brigade in Cuba
and who is now attache at the Londor
Legation. The acting commander I.
: Lieutenant Colonel T. J. Whit, who l.
the only veteran of the Civil Wa
! among the officers of the regiment. Al
the others are young men, though mos
of them are veterans of the Spanisl
}. War.
Il When Brigadier-G General A. r. Chat
: fee boards the Grant to proceed to Chi
: ma to take command of the American
" forces he will. no doubt, be pleased t
n find the Sixth Cavalry on the vessel
!. 1t was with the old Sixth that Genera
/, Chaffee began his military career. TIL
:. regiment was organized in 1861. Gen
;. eral Chaffee, then a youth of IS. enlist
! ed as a private in 1862, and rose sue
z
of X Troop. being then promoted t
!. Second Lieutenant. He remained wit
, the regiment until 1883, when he wa
n made Major of the Ninth Cavalry. II
r, is now Colonel of the Eighth Cavalry |
l. the regular Army and Brigadier Gen
:, eral of volunteers.
: The old Sixth Regiment saw arduou
, service during the Civil War, mostly
.. Virginia under General Phil Sheridan
;. After the war it went 10 Texas, and lat
s. er was in hard Indian campaigns
: Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona.
j. was active in the Geronimo campaig
, Of 1856. and again in the Wounde
r. Knee campaign against the Sioux
5 1S30-91. When the war against Spai
; broke out two squadrons of the Sixtl
= including most of the troops now her
= formed part of General Skaters arm
q. OF invasion. and shared in the brief b,
vigorous Cuban campaign, includin
u the charge up San Juan hill. At II
@ close of the war, in December, 1898. II
- regiment went into barracks in diffe
nc ent places in the West until called
r. the duty that now confronts 1t.
NJ Lieutenant Colonel Whit has an hoi
y orable record as a fighter. both In Il
Civil War and in the recent SPANS
& War. His staff consists OF Lieutenal
n John Nance, regifnentai Adjutan
nc Lieutenant John F'urlong, acting A.
fJutant; Lieutenant G c. Barnhart. ac
ing Quartermaster.
A telegram received here at Arm
Headquarters yesterday from the w
Department at Washington. orderiI
additional supplies and equipments Z
the Sixth Cavalry, is taken as certa
10 Indication that the regiment Is destin
All for service in China The original o
Ter was for the ordinary supplies al
Oh rations for troops going to the Phil
IS oires where the Government has stor
ry and supplies. which are constantly !
al 1lenished The order that the troo
g go to Nagasaki and await addition
nd Instructions there gave rise to the ST
lin mise that their ultimate destinati
til night be China. Yesterdays ciph
-or dispatch for additional rations and 81