Indian Wars - Timeline 1865-1898

1865	2nd battalion of the 14th (called the "bloody 14th" for it's Civil War record) sent to the Department of the Columbia under command of Col. Charles S. Lovell, and established headquarters at Fort Vancouver (the other two battalions stationed in Arizona and California)
1866	2nd battalion leaves Vancouver, moving their headquarters to San Francisco, and then Arizona the same year, and on to Fort Sidney, Nebraska.
1867	Three battalions are reorganized into a regiment, the 14th United States Infantry. The former 2nd battalion, which remained in Oregon and Washington, became the 23rd U.S. Infantry, and the former 3rd battalion, stationed in Arizona, became the 32nd U.S. Infantry
1866-1869	Arizona
1867	Camp Rock Spring and Camp Cody, California, K company 10/17/1867
1869-1870	Tennessee and Kentucky
1869	F company was at Louisville, Kentucky
1870	14th transferred to the Department of the Dakota, Fort Randall, South Dakota, then to Fort Thompson, South Dakota near the Crow Creek Agency.
1870	14th transferred to the Department of the Platte, company F to Omaha Barracks, Nebraska, for the winter.
1870-1884	Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming
1871	Wyoming, Fort Fetterman, F company 3/1871 to 9/1873
1874	Fort Sanders, Tennessee, F company 9/1873 to 2/1874
1874	Fort Laramie, Wyoming, F company, sent to deal with trouble at the Red Cloud Agency, camped there for four months 2/15/1874
1874	2nd Lt. killed by Indians near Laramie Peak, Wyoming 2/9/1874
1874	Camp Douglas, Utah, F company, named 14th Infantry regimental headquarters, under the command of Col. John E. Smith, where they spent two years rebuilding the fort from old wooden buildings, to stone. 9/5/1874
1876	General George Custer and his command annihilated in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Some 14th Infantry troops were stationed at Camp Douglas, Salt Lake City at the time. The moved to join Gen Crook as he pursued the Indian forces involved in that attack.
1876	Crooks March, B, F companies moved to Camp Davis to join Gen. Crook [another source says companies C, G, and I served with Crook, though the other source was provided by a first-person report of an F company soldier who suffered through that long trek. A third source indicates companies B, C, F]
1877	At Camp Robinson, Nebraska, after Crook's "Starvation March" and 2000-mile trek
1877	Camp Douglas, Salt Lake City, F company 4/4/1877
1884-1893	Regiment at Vancouver Barracks, Washington
1884	Col. Hunt and most of the 14th at Vancouver Barracks. Two companies were sent to Fort Townsend, Port Townsend Bay, Washington, one sent to Boise Barracks, Idaho, one to Fort Klamath, Oregon, and two were detained in southern Colorado by an uprising of the Utes
1885	Regiment holds Grand Review in Vancouver with all 10 companies 5/7/1885 That spring and summer the troops were building new quarters, barracks, ditches and drains for the water works
1885	Lt. Col. I. D. DeRussy let the 14th to Puget Sound because rioters had driven all Chinese residents out of Tacoma and Seattle and burned their homes. 75 men were left at Tacoma, the rest continued on to Seattle. 11/17/1885
1885	Capt. Gilbert S. Carpenter and his company transferred 30 prisoners to Vancouver for trial
1886	Col. DeRussy and 8 companies patrol the streets of Seattle after more anti-Chinese violence
1886	Four companies return to Vancouver Barracks, 2/25/1886, and two more on 4/2/1886, the remaining two on 8/28/1886
1886	Col. Thomas M. Anderson takes command of the 14th Regiment
1887	"I" company sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for several years
1888	In September and October, the 14th marched 400 miles, round trip, to the Oregon coast, as a training exercise
1888	Maj. C. A. Wikoff takes command of the 14th Infantry, and the barracks, for a short time
1889	The regiment helps to fight two major forest fires in Seattle and Spokane. In Spokane, Lt. Henry Coulter Cabell, Jr. brought tents for the burned-out residents; In Seattle the fire left the entire business section in ruins, and Lt. William Augustus Kimball delivered 500 tents for the homeless 6/6/1889
1889	Late summer, six companies participate on a practice march for 11 days to Cayuse Station on the Umatilla Reservation, in northeastern Oregon (east of Pendelton), returning in October
1889	Lt. McCammon and 9 soldiers of K company at Fort Klamath, Oregon, winter of 1889-1890, more than 20 feet of snowfall in one storm, trying to dig out and save the buildings from collapsing. Fort was abandoned 6/23/1890
1890	Headquarters, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and K companies at Vancouver Barracks, company A is at Fort Townsend, Washington, and company "I" is at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1890	Company H moves to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, companies "I" and K were "skeletanized" and their enlisted men transferred to other companies, as the Army "downsized" it's units, leaving six companies at Vancouver
1891	1st. Lt. Cabell, with 15 men, traveled to the Puyallup Indian Reservation in western Washington, to keep squatters off of the reservation
1892	Lt. Col. H. A. Theaker, commanding, led companies C, D, E and F to Wallace, Idaho to stop rioting miners, "an insurrection". B company traveled to Burke, Idaho. 8/31/1892 The miners had destroyed one mine using dynamite and committed other acts of violence. The troops returned to Vancouver in mid-September
1893	Company F (could have been G) sent to Puyallup Indian Reservation in western Washington to prevent encroachment on indian lands
1894	Nationwide train strike ("Pullman Strike") causes all rail and mail service to cease. In Portland, Oregon, "Coxeyites" seized a train and the trouble spread to other rail centers. Five companies under command of Lt. Col. H.A. Theaker went to Seattle to quell the disturbance there, and returned at the end of May after two weeks. Company C went to Wallace, Idaho to put down more miner union violence, and also returned after two weeks. Company D went to Umatilla Junction, Oregon to stop wandering rail workers from stealing railroad property. Company G escorted prisoners from Boise, Idaho to a prison in western Idaho, and protected deputy marshals and prevent escapes Company H, which had been at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas since 1890, spent May-July in Indian country arresting and removing intruders, then traveled to Fort Vancouver in October
1894	Four companies under command of Col. Thomas M. Anderson went to Tacoma where shots had been fired at passing trains. When they debarked from their train the men faced a crowd of several hundred armed workers, who eventually dispersed. Starting that very night, 7-8 troops were placed aboard every train leaving the city. Problems were resolved and the troops returned by the end of July
1895	By early 1895 all companies were back at Vancouver, company F arriving on March 6 from Fort Townsend
1895	A small detachment under Capt. F. F. Eastman Hillsboro left on a road mapping expedition, and the regimental band took a 10-day fishing and camping trip to the Lewis River
1895	At this time the regiment consisted of just 555 enlisted men and officers . . . and the total US Infantry was just 13,441
1897	The Alaska gold rush had begun and tens of thousands of miners were traveling to Alaska, and with winter coming, the 14th was ordered to prepare for relief efforts. In February the 14th was alerted to prepare for movement to Alaska. Headquarters were set up in Dyea, and A and G companies traveled to Skagway. When they arrived they had to drive back armed men waiting on the wharf. They set up their tents on a foot of snow. 2/25/1987 [another source suggests B and H companies were in Skagway]
1897	Companies C, D, E, F remained in Vancouver, on call
1897	Sidney Calligan, company G, wrote that there was extremely cold weather, with lots of sickness among the troops, and problems with the British who claimed sovereignty over much of the gold-bearing areas
1898	On April 24, Spain declares war with the United States after the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba. The war lasts from 4/21/1898 to 8/13/1898
1898	All troops in Alaska ordered to return to Vancouver immediately, recruiting was expanded to refill the depleted ranks of the peacetime forces, and the Regiment was expanded to three battalions of four companies each. Ongoing violence in Alaska caused a delay for one of the Skagway companies, who were sent to Fort Wrangel to stop wholesale robberies and holdups. On May 7 companies C, D, E, F shipped for San Francisco.
1898	By mid-May A and G companies return to Vancouver from Skagway. Company G remains at Camp Merritt, California to collect recruits for the war and organize four companies for the newly authorized 3rd battalion They arrive in Hawaii on June 1 (soon to be taken over by the United States), leaving for the Philippines on June 4
1898-1901	Philippines Headquarters, E, F companies 5/25/1898 to 8/18/1901 A, C, D companies 5/25/1898 to 4/26/1900 B company 6/24/1899 to 4/26/1900 G, I, K, L, M companies 8/4/1898 to 8/18/1901 H company 6/20/1899 to 8/18/1901
1898	Ciick The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection for documents and photos of the 14th in the Philippines