Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 24

Story of Twenty-Second Infantry U. S. A. COLORS OF THE URSUANT to instructions from the War department, the Twenty- second United States infantry will on October 21 depart from Fort Crook for a second time to do duty in the Philippines. This reglment has been quartered at Fort Btundln' (reldlnf from lert to right): Caj eutenant Mooton Russell, lennnt Parker Hitt, Lieutenant J R. Wasse'ls, 1 Bull, Slnlna (reading from left to right): y Chaplain E. a very large portion of Ilé regimental life interwoven in th'e history of Indian warfare in the northwest. In 1867 the regiment built the posts of Forts Sully and Rice and served with distinction and many priva- tions at Forts Buford and Randall in the upper Missourl country, and during the . tain D. L. Stone, Captain Lieutenant Harry Graham, Goodale, Lieutenant J. R. R.-Hanhay, gant, Captain R. L. Hamilton, Captain J. F. Kraps. CROOK, UNDER ORDERB F()RPRFSFNT OFFICERS OF TWENTY-SE THE PHIUPPINLS —~Photo by a St e 7% g COND INFANTRY, U. 8. A,, NOW AT FORT aff "Artist, Crook at various times since the establish- ment of that post and has become in a measure an Omaha institution. The com- mand, men and officers are above the aver- age of army organizations In Iptelligenc., morale and esprit de corps. The reziment has a splendid record and a long one. Its history dates from the war of 181, not as the numbered designation with which it is now known, but as the successor by ab- sorption, consolidation and reorganization of some of the very oldest regiments in the United States army. The regiment was originally organized by act of congress on June 26, 1812, when it, with the Sixth, SBixteenth, Twenty-second and Thirty-second regiments, then but fragmentary bodies, were consolidated and formed the Second United States infantry. In May, 1861, the SBecond battalion of the Thirteenth United States infantry was separated from tHat regiment, of -which William Tecumseh Sherman was. celonel and Philip H. Sheridan was a captain; and was thereafter designated as the Twenty- second infantry. In May, 1869, the Third battalion of the Thirteenth and the Thirty- first infantry were consolidated with the Twenty-second. The regiment was prac- tically first organized and has since main- tained individuality as the Twenty-second under the act of congress of July 28, 186, revrgunizing the army. From that date the I'wenty-second infan- try has been in active fleld service, with LADIES OF THE POST AND VISITORS FICERS' ROW."--Photo by a Staff Indlan campaigns againsi*the Sloux in 1866 and 1868, With the Seventeenth infantry it con- stantly guarded the building of the North- ern Pacific rallway during the summer of 1871, Following the completion of that road the regiment at once re-engaged in the war against the Indians and was a part of Gen- erals Augur's and Terry's commands in the warfare against 8Sitting Bull, during which occurred the massacre of the Seventh cav- alry under General Custer in. 1876, The regiment remained in that part of the coun- ¥ »3 o~ ) aac Newell, Lieutenant ‘W. E. Roberts, (‘up(uln W. H. feutenant’ Dean Halford, Captain D. P. Wheéler, Lieu- L‘eutenant I w. L. Leonard, - Lieutenant " E, H. Fitzgerald, Capmln P, \V DJvlsun Major Abner Pickerlng. (‘olom*l Henry REGIMENT CROSSING PARADE GROUND AT FORT CROOK.—Photo by .a Staff Artist., border, In 1879 the regiment varied its Indian campaigning with keeping the Oklahoma “sooners” out of that s=ection of the coun- try, and in 1880 was returned to the De- partment of Texas, In 1882 it was again transferred to the Department of the Mis- souri, with headquarters at Santa Fe, and stations at Forts Garland, Lewis and Liyvons, Colo. In 188 the regiment was brought back to the Department of Da- kota, with its headquarters established at Fort Keogh, with other companies at Forts Totten ¢nad Lincoln. ’ In 1890 it participated in the suppression of the uprising of the Sloux at the Pine Ridge agency, taking part in the entire winter campaign, and In 1801 concentrated again at Fort Keogh. In 1892 the regi- ment was called to the scene of the Coeur d’Alene mining troubles and rendered ef- fective service there. Finally in 1896 the long period of fron- tier service of the regiment was broken and the regiment was ordered to the new post at Fort Crook, nine miles south of Omaha, to take station. In 1897 the regiment was sent to Chicago to participate in (he serv- ices incident to the unveiling of the Logan monument, returning to Fort Crook, where the regiment remained until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. On April 18, 1898, In compliance with orders from the War department, and headquarters, Department of the Missourti, dated April 15, the Twenty-second infantry left Fort Crook by rail for Mobile, Ala, The strength of the regiment at that time comprised twenty-nine officers and 484 en- listed men. The officers then were: Colonel C. A. Wikoff, commanding; Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Patterson, Major W. N, Van Horne, First Lieutenant Herman Hall, ad- jutant; First Lieutenant J. F. Kreps, quartermaster; Chaplain E. H. Fitzgerald, Captains B. C. Lockwood, W. ‘H., Kell, Theodore Mosher, A. C. Sharpe, J. J. Crittenden, R. N, Getty and F, B. Jones; First Lieutenants E. O. C. Ord, H. C. Hodges, jr., G. H. Patten, T. W, Moore, WATCHING THE DRESS PARADE FROM THE LAWN IN FRONT OF “OF- Artist, try until the Indlans were quieted, and was in 1878 transferred to the Department of Texas, where it took part in the wars against the Comanches, Southern Chey- ennes, Arapahoes and other rebellious tribes of the Indlan Territory and New Mexice W. M, Swaine, A. J. Godfrey, W, L. Tay- lor and H. 8. Jackson; Second Lieutenants A. C. Dalton, W. H. Wassell, P. W. Davison, O. R. Wolfe, Harry Clement, D, (Continued on Page Fifteen.) . THIRD BATTALION BALUTING AS IT PASSES COMMANDER ON DRESS PARADE.—Photo by a Staff Artist.