Turn of the Century - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

Squad room interior of bldg. 22208 (old no. 14) showing members of the 25th Infantry bandwho were stationed here from October 1898 to the Spring of 1899.The next year the regiment would be off for the Philippines, but they would return to Huachuca,first serving at Fort Stephen D. Little at Nogales, then coming to Huachuca again in 1929. Theywould become the regular Army backbone for two divisions of infantry trained at Huachuca forthe fighting in World War II.The 9th Cavalry left Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in late April and eventually joined the V Corpsat Tampa in early May. A month after the battle for San Juan Heights, Col. Roosevelt wrote to acaptain of the 9th Cavalry, testifying to the gallantry of that regiment. He said:I remember very well, after our first fight on the 24th of June, that three troops of the Ninthcame up within half an hour or so after the close of the fight and established outposts on ourfront; at least one troop was on the left, where I was in command at the time, and its arrivinggave great relief to my tired men. On the first of July, I had more to do with the Ninth than another regiment of regular cavalry, on the whole. ...I particularly remember yourself [E.D.Dimmick, later a brigadier general], Capt. C. A. Stedman and Lieutenants McName andStevens. Mr. Stevens was with me for a large part of the hottest fighting, as indeed were verymany of your officers and men. We were all mixed together when we made the charge towardthe next hill, and I know how glad I was to feel that so admirable a regiment as yours wasalong with us. When we moved on beyond the next hill to the crest, where we finally stoppedand dug entrenchments that night, I found myself in command of fragments of all six cavalryregiments. The confusion was great, the regiments being much mixed up, although this didnot interfere in the least with their fighting capacity. Every man when he lost his squad ortroop simply joined that nearest him and went under its officer on non-commissioned officers.In cannot remember precisely, nor indeed would it be possible to tell, the position of theA MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM101