The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22

shipped to Seattle last night. and on
the 18th will be loaded for Nagasaki.
A detail of twelve men go along with
the livestock, and will reach Japan
ahead Of the troop.
1t is interesting to watch soldiers
pack under rush orders. Each man
has his paraphernalia to get together
and what he cannot crowd into one box
of regulation size furnished him by the
government, he has TO throw away.
For that reason, ne takes only what
articles will be indispensable in cam
paign.
Soldiers Packing Up.
All day Friday and Saturday the
men were preparing to move. Around
the first barracks at Fort Douglas the
scene was one to suggest a custom
house after the arrival of an ocean
liner. Men were running here and
there with packages and buds of all
descriptions, everybody was yelling at
everybody else, officers were giving or
ders i'm loud tones, and half dozen
carpenters with saws and hammers
We're tearing open and mailing up boxes.
A couple of clerks STOOD off to one
side and checked up the weight If the
freight. while another superintendent
the weighing, and still others stood
with stencils and paint ready to daub
the name and number of the owner
on each box taken from the scales.
This doBe. the box went up on the Iile.
and by the time the work was finished.
there seemed 10 be enough of them to
establish communication with Mars, if
stacked one upon the other. But, real
ly. they numbered only 101.
In another quarter of the post, the
luggage, such as blankets. carbines.
sabTes and ammunition, was being
packed. Every article had to be put
in it's place just so, but there were
skillful hands TO see to it and the work
was handled eXpeditiously. The flag
and troop guidon were to be Fesurrect-
ed for a good many weeks. 1t is the
longest journey ever undertaken by the
Ninth. but the men packed up as
though the regiment had been globe
trotting for a decade.
Ninth Has a History.
The Ninth cavalry has a history. 1t
has been through some Of the hottest
fighting on American soil, not alone as
the Ninth cavalry, but as a part of
Sherman's army, OIL of which the
Ninth had its origin.
Way back in the days of the rebellion
there was a regiment known as the
Forty-secOnd United States cOlOred in
fantry, which served in the Fifth army
corps under Sherman, in Burnsides'
division, and won laurels for them
selves and the Union. Out of this regi-
ment sprung the Ninth cavalry, being
organized in 1856, at the close of the
war, in New Orleans, with Colonel Ed
ward Hatch in command.
In the succeeding term of peace, the
regiment was stationed at New Or
leans, but in 10 iC was sent to San An
tonic, Tex, and three years later to
New Mexico, ther quickly back TO Ari-
iona to take part in the Indian trou-
bles.
All through the seventies the Nirth
was fighting redskins. 1t was at Mana.
Victoria, Cooks Peak, San MateO and
through the Black range in Morris
campaign in 81 Not until the saVages
were subdued was the regiment per-
mitted TO return from that barren sec
ton, being ~ Kansas. a comparative
heaven. for a short while. Then they
were ordered down into Indian terri
tory and finally over into Wyoming
under Commander General Hatch.
From Fort Duchesne. troop c was sent
TO garrison Fort Douglas, and the men
say this was the first luxury they ever
experienced.
Here For Thirteen Months.
The troop arrived here June p, 1899,
and singularly enough, July n, 1900. is
its last day here. For just thirteen
months they have lived in the most
desirable post in the west.
But the men are eager to get 10 the
front. They are willing TO leave Fort
Douglas so long as there is a prospect