Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-02
Campaign Badges to Be
Issued to Militia.
Adjutant General Issues Cir
cu|ar Regarding Matter.
$4,000, 900 Timber Lands Corpora.
ton Organized al. Kittery.

graph il, Circular No. 10, War Depart
8 ment, Division of Militia Affairs Wash
ington, December l, 1908, which is as
follows:
III. The Secretary of War having
decided that campaign badges are a
part OF the uniform and that their is
sue to members of the Organized Mill
. tia entitled thereto and to wear the I'M
form, is authorized, instructions COW
ering the requistion for the badges and
their issue are prescribed as follows:
Campaign badges of the pattern in
the office of the Quartermaster Gener-
al of the Army will be issued to the
Organized Militia upon acquisitions sub
nitted IN the manner prescribed in
paragraph 1l5, Militia Regulations, as
amended by Circular No 6, Division of
Militia Affairs, September 5, 1908. These
badges may be issued TO officers and
enlisted men on the active list of the
organized Militia of a State, Territory,
or the district of Columbia, who have
had service as indicated in paragraph
], General Orders, No. 129, War Depart
ment series of 1908.
a requlsitiOn for campaign badges
for issue to the Organized Militia will
cate, Of officers and enlisted men en-
titled to the same, as prescribed in par
agraph S, General Orders, No. 129, War
Department, series of 1905 When these
lists shall have been verified from the
records of the War Department and
Gully approved, the badges will be sent
icy the Quartermaster General to the
proper officers of the Organized Militia
fer distribution
Commanding officers will at once as
certain if any officers or enlisted men
of the command are entitled to cam
paign badges as indicated in paragraph
!, General Orders, No. 1919, War De-
partment series of 1908, as follows:
'(a) Civil War campaign badge: For
service in the Regular or Volunteer
Army or in the Militia in the service of
the United States during the Civil War
between April 49, 1861, and April 9. 1861.
% Indian campaign badge: For ser
vice in the following named campaigns
against hostile Indians or in any serious
action with hostile Indians in which
there have been killed or wounded upon
the side Of the troops; decision to be
made in each case of the latter class,
individual application, whether the
properly considered serious Within the
meaning Of the order:
In southern Oregon and Idaho and
northern parts OF California and Neva-
da, 1SG5-1S6S
Against CheyrnncS, ArapahOcS, kiO-
was and Comalchcs in Kansas. Colo
RADIO, and India Territory, 1867 1868
/ and 1861?
Modoc war, 1872 and 1873
Against Apachcs of Arizona. 1873.
Against KiowaS, Comanchcs, and
ChcycnLcs in Kansas. Colorado, Texas,
Indian Territory, ana New Mexico, 1874
and 1877,
Sioux, 1876 and 1871
Ncz Perez war, 1917.
Bannock war1S1S
Against Northern Cheycnnes, 1878 and
1879.
Against Utes in Colorado and Utah,
September, 1879, to November, 1880.
Against Apaches in Arizona and New
Mexico. 1885 and 1856. The operations
Of officers and enlisted men who served
with Troops G. r. +. and J.. Sd Cavalry.
ment Of Troop NJ. Sd Cavalry. from
Il
and July. 1885. in preventing hostile
| Apache Indians from entering the State
/ of Texas, form part of this campaign.
II Against Sioux in South Dakota,
Il November 1890, to January 1891
Il The operations of the command Of
/ Lieutenant Colonel Edwin V. Sum
/ Ner. sth Cavalry, on the Chey-
| enne river, South Dakota. from Novein-
II hpr n
Troops T. and G. Sth Cavalry. which
/ proceeded from Fort Yates, North De-
\ kota. to the camp of Sitting Bull at the
i time of the skirmish which resulted in
I the death of that Indian, form part of
This campaign
In such minor campaigns as involved
marches, camps. and bfvouacs by
Troops actually in the field and oper-
ating against hostile Indians.
The question of the issue of Indian
campaign badges for service in cam
pagns other than those herein designa-
lea by name will, in each case. be de-
cided on it's merits, upon individual
application
(c) Spanish campaign badge: For
service on the high seas en- route to,
or ashore in
Sunet, DelWeeI May IL, 1910, eiiiu y uiS
Ii, 1898.
Porto Rico. between July ~, 1898, and
August 10, 1898
Philippine Islands, between June 80,
1@S, and August is, 1898.
'd) Philippine campaign badge: For
service ashore in
Philippine Islands. between Febru-
aiy a. 1899, and July 4, 1902.
department OF Mindanao, Philippine
Islands, between February 4, 1899, and
December 81, 1904.
IN the following expeditions:
Against Pala and his followers. Jolo.
1905.
Against Datu Ali and his followers.
saindanao, Philippine Islands, October,
against hostile Moros on Mount
nud-Dajo, Jolo Philippine Island,
March. 1906.
The fact of service in any one of
shese three expeditions will be certi-
AeQ to hvy bo oo,,,,, u1inu officer Of