Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-09
personal REC0LLEC1|ONS
Of ODD Fl. LINCOLN DAYS

his classmates to spend his vacation. Wha
a handsome young a he was, inc HOY
proud his family was Of him. He cOul
have remained at Saint louis during hi
fathers term Of service there; but n
preferred service with his regiment. IL
year met his death. The news or the bat
tie came to Saint Louis, on the mornint
Of July 5th. What q shock 1t was to tn
Sturges family. Only one year before thei
youngest son, Glenny, a fine boy of si'
years, died at the barracks at Saint Lo
uis. The news was also a shock t.
others there who had sons and nusOand
slain in the battle. | was at Saint LOui!
when the news came.
The other young man was William Val
w. Reilly, who was an only son Of Il wild
owed mother residing in Washington. Hi!
father he had never known. He was al
officer in the Navy and drowned at sea
before the son was born. Reilly was ap'
1875, and reported for duty to cavalry
Depot at Saint Louis where General Sture
es was in command. There he became
acquainted with Jack Sturges, his father
and that prince Of men and soldiers, Cap
tain Owen Hale. who laid down his life
in 1877 at Bear Paw mountains. Reilly was
first assigned to the 9th Cavalry, a negro
regiment, and against serving In negro
regiments at that time there was some
prejudice. One morning in the long ago.
when going into the office Of General
Sturges, + met Reilly coming out. He
stopped and turning to Captain Hale, re-
marked: II have written to Washington
requesting a transfer to the Seventh Cav
airy" Poor boy, he little knew that his
letter, asking for the transfer, was to
be his death warrant.
The hospital was located at the upper
post. and was for many years under the
charge Of another prince and gentleman,
Major w. D. Wolverton. Wolverton was
army. He did not believe in prescribing
Whiskey for any disease, and seldom did;
saying there was something just as good.
MY. friend, Doctor Stickney, has often
years ahead Of his time in the matter Of
prescribing whiskey. AS a medicine we
all know now that 1t is useless and only
good to drink.
Woiverton served many years at Fort
the value Of the Red River lands, and be-
came the owner Of many sections when
land there could be purchased at $3.50
per acre. We a ~asergeant at Lincoln,
who I will call C. This man was an
ed the most of his time. Once every two
months. at the paymaster's call, c would
get very i'll and always wind up in the
hospital. After being there for a few days
you think a drink of whiskey or brandy
would taste good to you; We have plenty
OF each here?" C would reply: Doctor,
dear, If you would only give me one small
sup: don't care if it be whiskey or bran
dy:n he IKE never atn got i; The t,a sup u L 4, .hn
long ago, was erected from a plan in
the Surgeon Generals office, at Wash
ington. but that plan was made by Hos
pital Steward Herman Herbst who copied
a. fror, %h~ h4~~3Ao 1- ~ -
he had served as a soldier. Another inter-.
estlng man at Lincoln was John Fea,
called "Scotty" Fea. He was born in Scot
land, and coming to this country when
n young man drifted west. and was for
was sent from there to Fort Rice in 1873
to accompany the Stanley Expedition to
the Yellowstone. This was the first expe-
dttion sent out to survey the route for
the n. P. r. R. This expedition crossed
above. or south Of Medora. Fea after
wards served many years at Lincoln;
went to jamestown with Doctor Archi-
bald and was the first engineer at the
Asylum.
B%iederbeck, who was a member Of the
Greedy. party at Cape Sabine, when res
cued by Captain Schley, was a private
soldier at Lincoln in 1879, and acting hos
p,ital steward, when he. volunteered for
the expedition to the Arctic. Biederback
WoS "Au hight NC CulACu n 0OlulST III
Fortune" He was a medical student in
Germany when the war between Turkey
and Russia of 1877 broke out, and went
to the Balkan states for service with
troops. Some years after this he came
Lieut.. j. B.. Lockwood, another OF the
Greedy party, vas also once at Lincoln.
Poor Lockwood. he laid down his life at
Camp Sabine. When the last ship left the
party. before it started north. Lockwood
semi 70 Iio1ItonQ nf Cho mo ~ 7 ivooo1u n
copy OF the Arctic Moon. I saw this copy
and q part of the copy may be seen in
the Century Magazine Of May 1885.
Fort Meade was established in 1873,
infantry composed the garrison. The cav
airy companies were left there from the
Sturges expedition. There was at Lincoln
detchmentc which belonged to the
companies at Meade and these were snnt,
at Meade; they were sent under a cap
tain who I will call f. When they ar
rived at Meade it was said that F was in
tOxicated while en- route. and he was sent
PACK to Lincoln for trial by court mar
Stoyall Of Bismarck, and an army Off
Ger, who I viii call the Major were the
attorneys for the defense. F set up the
claim that he had only drank East India
Bitter, and that as they were not intox-
intoxicated. The Major and Stoyall came
from the our room to the commissary
office to enquire If any one there had
ever drank 'Eaet India Bitter and II
SO, where any could be purchased. They
Were told that such could b. purchased
at the Traders Store. TIL Major ordered
that a bottle be procured, which was done
When 9 cork screw and cup was asked
for and furnished. The Major, after re-
moving the cork, filled a pint cup half
full n drained it to the bottom, smack
ed his lips, and said "Stoyall, this is
not intoxicating; try some" stoyail took
the same dose and said: Major, it GER
talnly IS not Intoxicating" The Major
proceeded to repeat the dose, and Stoy-
all the same. Some one called the Majors
attention to the fact that if he Intended
to use the bitters to convince the court
Of it's strength, there would not be suffi-
clent to go around. The Major at once
ordered another bottle for use Of the
court. He did not succeed in convincing
the members for F was found guilty.
In the next article an account will be
given of the death Of the man-woman.