The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-07-09
The Regiment Gets Orders to
Hike for Its New
Stations.
TO SAIL EARLY IN FEBRUARY
Famous Fourth Cavalry Is to Be
Sent Here as the
Relief.
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Back to the wiids for the Fifth Cav.
airy. Orders reached military head
quarters yesterday morning detaching
that command from duty in the Depart
ment of Hawaii to take effect Febru-
AIRY 5. The regiment will be relieved
by the Fourth Cavalry, now in duty in
Arizona.
The Fifth will probably be assigned
TO the posts in Arizona and New Mexi-
co, which it left three years ago to
pioneer the way to Schofeld Barracks.
The orders to the Fifth are for the regi-
ment to leave here on the February 5
transport and go to San Francisco,
from which point the command will be
directed to its new station, or stations,
as the cavalry regiments now serving
in the southwest are broken up into
companies for duty at the various old
time frontier posts.
The Fourth Cavalry, which is COM
manded by Colonel Edgar G.. Steever, is
stationed all over the "frontier," and
will come here from Nogales, Huachu.
ca, Bliss and Douglas, Arizona.
The Fourth Cavalry will arrive at
January transport Ever since the
completion of its second year of SER
vice in Hawaii, the Fifth cavalry has
had rumors of transfer orders. There
was little expectation, however, of the
regiment leaving before its four years
of service had elapsed. The orders re-
ceived indicate that the length of ser
vice for regiments in Hawaii will be
four years.
Among the officers of the Fourth
Cavalry is Lieutenant Clarence Lyman,
one of the three Lyman boys of Hilo,
who were sent to West Point. Clar-
ence graduated into the cavalry, his
younger brother went into the engineer
corps about two years ago, and Charley,
the youngest, who is now at West
Point, will graduate in two years.
lieutenant Gordon Kimball went into
the service from the famous Utah bat
ferries which did big service at the out
break in Manila, February 4, 1899.
Mansfield to Retire.
Orders were also received granting
Colonel Mansfield, Second Infantry,
and commandant of Schofeld Barracks,
four months leave of absence, which
will carry him to the day of his retire
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Mansfield will take leave of his regi-
ment and practically of the service,
with which he has been connected for
about forty years.
The departure of Colonel Mansfield
will place the command of Schofeld
Barracks on Colonel McGunnegle, First
Infantry, aenior officer in the post.
Colonel Francis French, recent grad
uate of the War College, has been or.
dered to Schofeld to take command of
the Second Infantry, thereby continu-
ing the scheme of having two colonels
with one regiment, one acting as com
mandant of the entire post.
Colonel McGunnegle' IS command will
last only until February, when the
Fourth Cavalry replaces the Fifth Cav
airy, for Colonel Steever will then be
the senior officer at the post Colonel
McGunnegle Is commission as colonel
dates from July 3, 1906, and Colonel
Steever S from August, 1908.
BY the spring of 1913, however, there
is likely to be an appointment of a
brigadier general to the command OF
Sehofeld Barracks, for the post is by
right brigadier S command. In all
probability the appointeo will be one
of the more recently promoted briga-
diers so as to be the junior of Briga'
dier.General Macomb, department
commander.