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

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Officers and ladies on a picnic at Fort Huachuca in 1898. Left to right: Lt. Barber; Lt.Hartwick; three unidentified persons; Mrs. M.B. Hughes; unidentified person; Mrs. C. G.Stodter; Mrs. Barber; and two unidentified persons. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo(SC469879).50 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
Fort Huachuca in the Spanish-American WarThe reasons for America’s war with Spain were not about a national desire to emerge intothe coming century as an imperial, global power, although there were a small number of expansionistswho saw this as the next logical course after securing the trans-Mississippi West in thename of manifest destiny. The war was more an outgrowth of sympathy for a colonial neighborjust off American shores who were still being oppressed more than a century after the AmericanRevolution. Insurrections in Cuba and Puerto Rico gained whole-hearted support from theAmerican people and these sentiments were fanned into outrage by a newly named “YellowJournalism” which sought to create sensation through its exaggerated reporting of the conditionsin the Spanish possessions south of Florida. Artist Frederic Remington wrote to his employer,newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, from Havana that things were quiet and he wanted tocome home; Hearst wired back: “Stay there. You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”Some in Congress saw the Cuban insurrection as an opportunity to win naval bases in theCaribbean and to gain favor with their constituents who were sympathetic to the rebels. BothPresidents Grover Cleveland and his successor in 1897 William McKinley favored a policy ofneutrality, but the mysterious explosion aboard the battleship USS Maine made that impossible.The Maine had been sent to Havana harbor on a courtesy call, which was in fact a pretense toprotect U.S. citizens in Havana. It sank on 15 February 1898 with a loss of 260 lives. Aninvestigation attributed the breach which put it on the bottom of the harbor to an “externalexplosion,” a conclusion that pointed to Spanish treachery.USS Maine in Havana harbor.Negotiations with Spain went downhill from there and Congress declared war on 25 April,making it retroactive to the 21st. The U.S. Army was not ready.With the clarion for war sounded, the U.S. Army found itself hard pressed to answer the call.It was not because the war was totally unexpected or that the theater was unanticipated. A smalloffice within the War Department, the Military Information Division, had been preparing studiesand maps on Spanish possessions in the hemisphere over the last few years. The problem wasthat the Army did not have in place a trained and specialized staff that it would need to mobilizeA MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM51
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Page 25: TimelineIn 1887 an earthquake start
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The 25th Infantry leaving San Franc
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different organizations at this tim
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African-American cavalrymen at San
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who avenged the death of Lieutenant
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There were dozens of casualties amo
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One of the recurring themes of thei
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William H. SmithShipp commanded Ind
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Col. Samuel M. Whitside, seated in
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Arizona squadron of the 1st Volunte
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American Army.We need a highly effi
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Renowned military author, educator,
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with a machete. 82Model 1892 Colt r
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Model 1911 .45 caliber pistol.A MAG
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the Manila operations. A treaty was
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cows and horses where there are now
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A map of the railroad into Fort Hua
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o’clock. We work until 4 o’cloc
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Commissary Office and Storehouse wi
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Quartermaster’s workshop with “
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An officer’s family on their lawn
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A view of the post hospital from Gr
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Troops of the 6th Cavalry stand at
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1901.01.00.009 Barracks row at Fort
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“Fancy Dress Ball” at Fort Huac
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Officers of the 5th Cavalry and lad
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Officers of the 5th Cavalry at Fort
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Civilian employees’ quarters in 1
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Men of the 9th Cavalry wearing Maso
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A view of Fort Huachuca in 1916. U.
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First car at Fort Huachuca, about 1
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Post Office and Bowling Alley at Fo
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Mounted troops from Troop D, 14th C
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was reelected president, defeating
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Brownsville, Texas, in which one wh
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lectured in February that “it is
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of. 87An idea of the whirlwind soci
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Roll Call: Sam Kee—Cantonese Paym
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Roll Call: Colonel John C. Gresham
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Digital montage of U.S. Army intell
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During the 1890s, the MID accomplis
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Secretary of War Elihu Root with me
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partially by the church); on the ea
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16 Quoted in Trask, David F., The W
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56 Glass, p. 116.57 Glass, pp. 119-
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sounded a claarion call for a profe
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