The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-09-07
ELEVENTH INFANTRY
TO ARRIVE FRIDAY
Hiking from Columbia to
Fort Thomas
CAMPING SITE
MOI YET KNOWN
eleventh United States Infantry In
hiko from Camp jackson TO New
Post at Fort Thomas, Ky, Expected
to Arrive Here Friday Morniny

iNc hcic rTldty MORNING.
Ihe Eleventh United States Infan-
'try' with about sixteen hundred men
ana two hundred head Of mules and
horses, on it's hike from Camp Jack
son to Fort Thomas, Ky, is expect
cd TO arrive in the vicinity Of Lau-
rens Friday morning about 10 o'clock.
AS far as could be learned, no official
notice of the regiments arrival had
Oeen received by the city authorities
or the chamber of commerce yester-
DAY and the location Of the camp
could not be learned.
The regiment camped at Newbcrrv
tuesday night, spending sthe day in
Ne"perry today. 1t is expected to
leave Newberry Thursday morning
and camp at Kinards that night. II
Will leave kinards early Friday morn
ing, marching in the coolest part OF
the day, and reach here about ten
O'Clock. 1t Is expected to remain here
until Saturday morning, when it will
take up the march to Owings, where it
VIII camp that night. 1t will spend
Sunday at Mauldin and reach Green
vile Monday for rest Of a day or
two. From there it will proceed to
Ashcville and thence to Knoxville and
Fort Thomas.
The march of the Eleventh infan-
try Is one Of the longest on record in
the history Of the American army and
according to the present schedule the
regiment will not reach Fort Thomas
which is across the river from Gin
cinnatl, Ohio, until the twentieth of
October, making total marching
time of about seven weeks from Jack
son to Thomas.
Commanded by Colonel Frank Hal
stead, the Eleventh is one Of the old
est regiments in the army. Colonel
,fialstead is very we'll known in South
Carolina. He was in command Of the
Three Hundred Twenty-tirst Infantry
regiment, station and trained at
Camp Jackson and at Camp Sewer,
prior to being sent overseas with the
Eighty-flrst Wildcat" division in
1918. Colonel Halstead saw active
service with tho Wildcats in the Vos-
ges mountains and in the second
phase of the Meuse-Argonne fight,
when the Eighty-first division attacked
on the ninth OF November, 1918, to
the north Of Verdun.
The Eleventh has a very cnviable
history. Until the recent reduction in
the army the regiment was part of
the Fifth regular division and has been
stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga, ano
at Camp Jackson. The fifth division
has been ordered on the inactive list
yided between three posts Of the old
regular garrison. Under its present
orders one battalion will so to Fol
Thomas, another to Fort Benjamin
Harrison, at Indianapolis. Ind, and
another to Columbus Barracks, Ohio.
The posts to which the regiment is as
signed are very desirable quarters.
Dating back to the Civil war, the
rcolors Of the Eleventh Infantry bear
steamers indicating It's battles, the
DciHB Vic NluICH q
Aug. 3. 1862; Manassas, Aug. 7-Sept.
2, 1862; Antietam,, Sept 3l6, 1862
Fredericksburg. Nov. 9.Dec. 10, 1862;
Charlottesville, April 27-May 6,
1853; Gettysburg, June 29-July 3,
1868; Wilderness, May Al, 1864;
Spottsylvana Court House, Nay s.
II, 1864; Cold Harbor, May 22-Junc
3, 1864; Petersburg, June 4-Novcm-
Der S, 1861; Battle OF Gaines Mill, Va,
June 27, 1862; Battle of Marvin Hill,
Va, June 80, 1862.
), Indian wars: Battle with Indians
June Is, 1872, Johnson's Mail station,
Texas; engagements with Indians,
july 1a-l9-22, 1872 Colorado and San
Saba rivers; expedition against XII
owas, Commanches and Cheyennes,
Indian Territory, 1915 engagements
with Indians, Black Hills and Chey-
ennc river. Dakota. December. 1887;
engagements against hostile Indians,
Sheridan. Nebraska, August 1878; en-
gagcments with Indians at Popular
Creek agency, January 2, 1891.
: SpanishJAmerman war: Porto Rico,
1898
Philippine insurrection: Mindanao,