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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Riley, Fort
A fortification of the United States in Geary county, Kan., on the Union Pacific Railroad, 4 miles northwest of Junction City, the county seat.
A military post was established here in 1853, and, under the name of Camp Centre, because it was the geographical centre of the United States, was garrisoned in 1855.
Later in the same year the name was changed to its present one in honor of Gen. B. C. Riley.
In 1887, under an act of Congress, this army post was entirely transformed, enlarged, and equipped to accommodate a permanent school of instruction in drill and practice for the cavalry and light artillery service of the United States.
The post now occupies 21,000 acres, and on a conspicuous site is a monument to the memory of the officers and men killed in the battles of Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission, in South Dakota, in 1890, culminations of the Messiah craze.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sioux Indians , or Dakota, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitside , Samuel Marmaduke 1839 - (search)
Whitside, Samuel Marmaduke 1839-
Military officer; born in Toronto, Canada, Jan. 9, 1839; joined the United States army in 1858; served throughout the Civil War with the 6th Cavalry; was then assigned to duty on the frontier, where he served for twenty-five years. In December, 1890, he captured Big Foot and his 400 Sioux warriors, and led his regiment at the battle of Wounded Knee.
During the war with Spain he commanded the 5th Cavalry; was transferred to the 10th Cavalry in October, 1898; and went to Cuba in May, 1899, where he was placed in command of the Department of Santiago and Puerto Principe in January, 1900.
On the reorganization of the regular army, in 1901, he was promoted brigadier-general.