The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-12

william Clark lieutenant IN tne
1892 and served with Gen. Anthony
Wayne in the campaign against the
Indians in 1884 which ended IN
the decisive Battle Of Fallen Inn
bers. A brother lieutenant IN that
army was a redheaded Virgif1ian
named Meriwether Lewis who was
to be Clark's partner in an undertak-
ing which would make both men
famous. That was the exploration OF
the vast empire in the West acquired
by President Thomas Jefferson,s
Louisiana Purchase. They started up
the Missouri river on May IA, 1904,
and after Journey of 5000 miles
which took them, through many
perils, clear to the Pacific coast,
they returned to St. Louis on Sep
tember %, 1906. Camp Clark in Mis-
souri, honors his memory, as Fort
Lewis in Washington honors that of
his partner in their magnificent ad-
venture"
Down in Texas is another camp
named for a white man who exerted
unusual influence over the Indians.
1t is Camp Bulls, near San An
tonic, which perpetuates the fame
of Brig. Gen. John Lapham Bulls.
He served three years in the Union
army during the Civil war, became
second lieutenant in the regular
army in 1867 and during the next IA
years made an enviable record as
an Indian fighter In 1882 the Texas
legislature passed resolution
thanking him for the gallant and
efficient services in repelling the
depredations Of Indians and other
enemies of the frontier of Texas" /"
Promoted to captain, Bulls was
named agent for the Apache Indians
at San Carlos, Ariz., one of the most
difficult and dangerous posts in the
West. But he won the respect and
admiration of these savages so COM
pletely that when he left San Carlos
| at the end of four years they were
a peaceable and prosperous tribe.
Soon afterwards he was named
agent for the Pueblos and Jicarilla
Apaches in New Mexico and his four
years there we're equally successful.
Bulls was retired from the army as
a brigadier general in 1905 and died
at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on
May 26, 1911.
Camp Boyd near Ell Paso, Texas,
is named for another army officer
who served in two wars. Charles
Trumbull Boyd (1871-1916), native
of Iowa, was graduated from West
Point in 1896 and became cavalry
officer. He saw active service in
the Philippines in 1898 to 1900 and,
after an interim as professor of mil
itary science and tactics at the Uni
| versity of Nevada and a practicing
| lawyer in California, returned to the
Islands as a major of the Philippine
| Scouts. In 1916 he joined his old
| regiment in the regular army, the
Fourth cavalry, in the punitive ex-
! pedition against Villa into Mexico
| and was killed in action at Carrizal,
on June 21-the only American Off
Ger to die in this Second War with
| Mexico"
Camp Mccoy, near Sparta, Wis,
also honors a veteran of two wars
Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce Mccoy
who captained company of Wis.
consin volunteers in the Spanish
| American war, commanded the
125th infantry and later the 128tf
infantry of the Thirty-second divi
sion of the A.E.F. and represented
the war department in establishing
the reservation which has been useo
for war games in recent years anc
which has borne his name since
1926.
Camp Fordyce in the town of Sam
Fordyce, Texas, is named for S
w. Fordyce, a leading attorney O
ST. Louis who served as counsel fol
the War Finance corporation dur
ing the World war. He was di
rector of thel M. K. & T. railroad
and a director of many importan
corporations in the Southwest.