NATIONAL HOTEL, HELENA, MONTANA TERRITORY,
May, 1878.
TO hear that we are no longer at Camp Baker will be a surprise, but
you must have become
Accustomed to surprises of this kind long ago.
Regimental headquarters, the companies that have been quartered at the
Helena fair grounds during the winter, and the two companies from Camp
Baker, started from here this morning on a march to the Milk River
country, where a new post is to be established on Beaver Creek. It is
to be called Fort Assiniboine. The troops will probably be in camp
until fall, when they will go to Fort Shaw.
We had been given no warning whatever of this move, and had less than
two days in which to pack and crate everything. And I can assure you
that in one way it was worse than being ranked out, for this time
there was necessity for careful packing and crating, because of the
rough mountain roads the wagons had to come over. But there were no
accidents, and our furniture and boxes are safely put away here in a
government storehouse.
At the time the order came, Faye was recorder for a board of survey
that was being held at the post, and this, in addition to turning over
quartermaster and other property, kept him hard at work night and day,
so the superintendence of all things pertaining to the house and camp
outfit fell to my lot. The soldiers were most willing and most
incompetent, and it kept me busy telling them what to do.
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