Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

column into Utah from the west, il
had been his hope and expectation 0f"
ter being commissioned by tho COVER
nor OF California 20 recruit the Third
California volunteers, to be sent &C once
TO the front but he was ordered in
stead, and much To his chugrln, to Titan
TO protect the mail route and keep the
Indians In check The command UNI
der Conner was TO have included 1000
infantry 800 cavalry field battery and
over 200 wagons besides officers ans
balances end carriages But the force
entering Utah did not consist Of much
over 200 men, At Fort Churchill Aug
G 1862 Cen Conner issued his first or
dor assuming command of the military
district 0f ttQh comprising the Terri
tories Of Utah and Nevada and on
Supt o Gen Conner arrived I'm salt
Lake city having left his troops in
Ruby Valley The troops demanded of
the war department that they be- sent
TO the sen Of the civil war az had been
originally Intended but they were not
accommodated although they offered
% ray their own passage to Panama.
SO on the forenoon OF October 20 lhe
column marched INTO the city, and az
ter a holt and some speeches before the
executive mansion the troops marched
TO the bench between Red Butte and
Emgrntl0n canyons, whore they went
into camp Two days later Con CON
nor began building quarters on the site
which has since been known aa Fort
Douglas. named after "the Little
Giant stephen A. Douglas Of Illinois.
the famous political opponent of Prcs-
dent Lincoln. The accommodations
were OF the crudcst character ana much
Inconvenience resulted therelrom cS-
pecialy IN wet seasons. II was from
Fort Douglas that The command went
that cleaned ont The indians at toe
famous Bear River dght late IN Fehru-
ary 1869, and the post from the 0fst
was considered one Of special Import
anco by the government
General Conner remained IN command
Of Fort Douglas until the spring OF
1865, when he left the Territory for
season. Since then there have been
many commanding officers at the camp,
some OF them being In command only
for few weeks when they were super
coded or transferred 20 other posts
General DeTr0briand General Morrow
General A. d. McCook, Lieut.. Col Os-
borne, Colonel NJ II Blunt General
Penrose General Freeman. General
Eskrldge Major CALM, and now Major
Young Of the Eighteenth infantry have
been In command Among the regI-
mental organizations either whole or
In part stationed az this post have
been the Fourteenth, sixth, sixteenth
Twenty first, Ttwenty-fourth (coloredl
Twenty-th third and Eighteenth regi-
ments Of infantry Second and Ninth
(colored) cavalry light batteries d OF
the Fifth artillery and p Of the First
and now light batteries u and ~, I'M
der the reorganization, Major Young
the present commanding officer, Is one
of the ablest administrators ever TO be
stationed here and has his large gar
rison of nearly ZOO men well In hand.
Although cheated out Of a regular band
by the regmental bands diversion TO
Fort Russell, he intends to organize one
from the soldiers at Fort Douglas ana
promises to succeed. There have been
religious organizations started among
the soldiers from time to time, ana at
present nourshlng society Of Chris
tlan Endeavor Is in operation at the
post,