PASSAGE OF TROOPS - 1872

STILLE, DAVIS, KELLOGG, TROOPS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 7/29/2016 at 21:13:05

Dubuque Herald, July 7, 1872

PASSAGE OF TROOPS – Attached to the train that arrived Friday evening from the east, were three carloads of Unites States troops, recruited at Governor's Island, N.Y., numbering 95 persons. They were in charge of Capt. Kellogg, assisted by Lieut. Stille and Lieut. Davis, brother of Jeff C. Davis, who figured in the last war in the Union Army. They were ordered to Fort Shaw, in Montana Territory for frontier service against the Indians, which place they reached via Sioux City. Orders were sent ahead for 24 gallons of coffee to be prepared upon their arrival, and while waiting for the train to depart west, the boys were marched out of the cars and filled their canteens with the black fluid without milk or sugar. They were orderly and under strict discipline, each car being guarder with sergeants on the platforms to prevent escape.