Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-03
Splendid History of Regiment
Now at Fort Shafter To Be
RetoId in ToaStS


The annual dinner of the officers oi
the End United States Infantry, which
is to take place at the Young hotel
this evening, commentaries the one
hundredth and twenty-fifth anniver.
sary of the birth of that splendid regi.
ment -. :.., 49,. 49,.
Honolulu has good cause to congrat
ulate herself on her good fortune in
having SO near this famous old regi-
ment, whose history is so closely
linked with that of the country. Hard
ly campaign of any American army,
since the organization of the regiment
some part of it on the honor rolls. Its
some part of it on the honor rolls. It's
history, however, is made doubly inter
esting to the people of Honolulu by
the fact that during the past five years
part or all of the regiment has been
continuously stationed at Fort Shaft
er and during that time the associa,
tons between the officers and men
of the regiment and the people of the
city have been most enjoyable.
The End Infantry was organized un.
der the act of March 8, 1871, with
James Wilkinson, veteran of the con.
tinental army, as commander. Upon
his promotion to be brigadier-general
March s, 1872, Lieut.-c David Strong
became regimental commander.
Was "The Legion"
BY the act of Congress of March ).
1892, the military establishment wa9
designated THE Legion" and consist
ed of a general staff and four sub
legions. Each sub-legion was com
posed of eight companies of infantry.
four companies of rifles, one company
of dragons and one company of ar.
tillery. The End Infantry became the
infantry of the sub-legion September
4th, 1882. The name, Second Regi
ment of Infantry" was restored to the
regiment November /, 1886, under all
act Of Congress of May 80 of that year
and it remained unchanged until
March II, 1915, when by consolidation
with number of regiments it became
q part of the LIST Regiment of Infantry
1t was again organized the same day
by consolidation Of the 9Th, 18th, 22nd,
23rd and 32nd Regiments of Infantry
and again April IL, 1869, by consolida
ton with the 10th Regiment of Infan.
try. The End Infantry, however, as
a Adistinct. organization, has never
ceased to exist since March 8, 1871
merely the personnel having been
changed, by the act of May IL, 1915.
The records of the regiment remain
intact and the history and the. official
of the old End Infantry
were handed down to the regiment re-
CARELESS of the organizations which
composed it. The officers and enlist
ed men transferred were entitled to
their individual records wherever serv-.
ing, but the official records of the End
Infantry were, and continue to be, the
records of that organization which
had borne the title.
The End Infantry remained in the
Ohio country engaged in small wars
with the Indians until 1905, when it
was scattered throughout the south
with headquarters at New Orleans.
In the summer of 1882 four compan.
les of the regiment went to Fort Dear,
born, on the present site of Chicago,
and became part of Gen. SCOTS army,
which was organized for the campaign
against the Black Hawk Indians. At
the conclusion of this campaign the
regiment was broken up and stationed
at different forts along the Great
Lakes, occupying the forts at Platts-
burg, Madison Barracks, Fort Niagara.
Detroit, Fort Brady and Mackinac un.
til 1887, when five companies were
sent to Florida to take part in the
Seminole war. Headquarters and the
other four companies followed in Sep
tember. 1898. and the entire regiment