The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-11-19

That year the boy was sent away to
school. He went first to the Shattuck
military academy in Minnesota, where
he remained for a year. He next at
tended school at Oxford, Md, for a
year, then high school in San Fran
to business college. In 1890 he entered
the old College of Montana at Deer
Lodge where he remained for two
years.
In 1892 young willard was nomi-
mated for admission to West Point and
nations. He was graduated in 1896, the
first Montanan to finish the course
there after the admission of Montana
to statehood.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant
Commissioned a second lieutenant,
Willard was assigned to duty with the
10th cavalry at Fort Custer. Mont. At
that time General Pershing, later to be
e eem%anasr IN fo Snlsf d Gr 1ne t Ame Woz1d
war, was a first lieutenant at Fort As
sinniboine near Havre. Fort Custer was
abandoned as an army post in 1897
and Lieutenant Willard was trans
ferred to Fort Keogh, neal Miles City.
He was stationed there when the
Lieutenant Williard's command was
ordered to Chickamauga park, troop
concentration camp, and assigned to
the Fifth army corps and within a
short time was sent to Cuba. There he
participated with his regiment in the
Las G9asimar in Cuba, June g. isss,
Lieutenant willard was in command
Of troop B of the 10th cavalry and be-
fore the battle was concluded was also
placed in command Of troop K Of the
First cavalry, the officers of which had
all been killed or wounded.
On the second day of the battle of
San Juan, he vas severely wounded
and was invaded to Fortress Monroe,
Va, from where he went, when con-
valescent, to his parents home at
Lewistown. In the fall of 1898 he was
ordered to join a portion of his regi-
ment which was stationed at Fort As
sinniboine.
In the spring of 1899 when federal
troops were sent into the Couer
d'Alene country of Idaho to prevent
violence during labor trouble, Lieuten-
ant willard was detailed for that
duty. The following fall he was ordered
to rejoin his regiment in Cuba where
he did garrison duty at various posts
First Lieutenant
He was then promoted to a first
lieutenancy and assigned to duty with
the Second cavalry at Fort Ethan
Allen and in Lewistown on leave of
absence he was promoted to a captaincy
and ordered to the Philippine islands.
While there his command was sta
toned on the island Of Luzon. A year
later he was returned to the United
States and did duty at various military
posts. While at Fort Wingate, N. M,
where he was stationed from 1905 to
1908, he took part in the campaign
against the Navajo Indians, the chief
battle with whom occurred on n san
Juan river in Utah, on Oct. "a, iSo6:
the troops that engaged the Indians
in battle and it was in recognition of
the service rendered there that he re-
ceived the commendatory letter from
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
That letter, one of Colonel Williard's
most treasured possessions, says:
my dear Captain Wlliard: I wish =
which you handled the recent incipient
outbreak of the banditti among the
Navajo Indians, and through you I
wish to thank your command for what
they did. It was a good job, done in
workmanlike style.
Every truly yours,
Theodore Roosevelt"
Transferred to Hawaii
In 1909 Captain willard was trans
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tuting the first garrison at Schofield
barracks, 81 miles from Honolulu and
now the largest military post on the
islands. In 1910 he was sent to the
Army School of the Line at Fort Leav-
enworth from which he was graduated
in the fall of 1911, rejoining his regi-
ment in Hawaii. The following year
he was sent to the Army School OF
Musketry at the Preside at Monterey,
Calf. and wa graduated from there
in the fall.
In 1918 Williard's regiment was sta
toned at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and
about that time he was appointed reg
mental quartermaster. In March, 1913,
he was in command of troop G when
the Mexican general, Obregon, and his
Yaqui Indians came across the border
and attacked Mexican federalists at
Nogales, Ariz.
In 1916 willard took part in the