Show 1 I Ft O Active Military Splendid 7 War Record Includes Over OverN N l o oA r ria A a a P cO i e 1 JI P P c 4 t t r Three Complete Regiments egi e ts Infantry 41 4 I 4 4 4 1 4 f. f C i 4 94 i 02 C b a 44 Pr o C 1 b l' l s i Recruits its and an d Other Units Furnished By F. F L. L Bag Bagby by of the United states States and has done its bit in producing pro ORT OUT DOUGLAS has been a busy cog in the war var machine producing pro pro- lul F dueing the sinews of war warto to b bring ing victory to the banners of the allies Sono idea of its scope is given by the fact that since the United States entered the world war there have J t been eighteen changes of post commander at the fort for t it has sent into the field service three e complete regiments of infantry one regiment of artillery one field hospital one ambulance corps one railroad construction construe construe- tion engineer battalion and more than recruits gathered gather d in the intermountain district and sent forth to various organizations It is also the designated aerial mail m ail route lending landing station for Salt Lake been for aliens for the entire western part of the United States has been It has the thear war lar prison camp enemy f f the engineer supply depot for the entire eastern department for more than three months has been headquarters I for the tho United States States' States guards guards cards on duty in the intermountain tain district has been a n training school for engineer offic ce cers c and has furnished housing accommodations for the students students' army training corps at the University of Utah RECORD A FINE ONE With the war ended Fort Douglas has become one of the two general hospitals of the western department will be restored to health and to lo where sick and wounded soldiers returning from the battlefields of France the theand thet business pursuits in civil life The local post has been permanently established as a general hospital for work of reconstruction of broken soldiers for many months t department and it bids fair to continue this great gnat to come Reckoned with other posts camps and cantonments of the country Fort Douglas is considered a n It small the and is still doing that work ork on a big scale place but its record shows that it has hns done a big in war still is I a. a Fort Douglas has placed itself on the war map in big let letters and continuous change in post commanders command ers at the local fortis but indicative of the progressive The fhe rapid wo work k that has been going on there Perhaps its changes chang have not been more than other camps but the intimate relation between the post and the people of Salt Lake has made the changes here most notable When tho the United States entered the war Fort Douglas was deserted save for a quartermaster detachment of one Olle officer and about six men the Twentieth infantry being and ond having been on the tilt Mexican border for three years previous ms Capt W. W B B. B Elliott Q 1 M. M 1 C. C sin since ce deceased was post commander on the eventful day that the United States entered the war EARLY WAR HISTORY I t Twentieth infantry arrived home from the border bonder and returned to its old quarters atthe at atthe atthe On May 24 2 I 1917 the relieved d Captain Elliott as post commander and remained remained re re- the post Col Alfred Hasbrouck co commanding manding the tho regiment in this position until summer slimmer When the Twentieth eth reached the post host it found orders awaiting it to divide the Fort second and third Forty-third infantries into three parts and form the two new r regiments to be known as ns second Forty and them for the Uie battlefield battlefield battlefield battle battle- drilling to war strength This was done and the work of recruiting these organizations field was put under way At the time the two regiments were formed giving ing the post three regiments of infantry it was thought that the he dream of years of a n brigade post ost at Fort ort Doug Douglas las AS was as about to tobe be realized A full brigade of infantry the Utah delegation in Congress to have bave the war forth was as then at the post and renewed efforts were put by department designate the fort as a brigade post and assign a a brigadier general in ill command PLANS ARE CHANGED however and while tho the war var nr department promised to Zeus This was but the formative period of the new army conform to the European plan Under this thus whole hole of organization was changed to the plan v matter consider t the tho he the tho and units destined for the front in in divisional an t to train organizations ilI immediately ly the policy it was as pl ll las fell fell feel gh because b there the e were v r not s for handling a division Douglas on brigade post os nM or l and training Was aS longer in In brIgade units into field artillery and was ns nsf time the th Utah National Guard was vas converted from cavalry ca ca the th About same f under t tent nt on tho the reservation and mustered into the federal service Recruiting and drilling of these yogi regi regiments placed Salt Lake of Utah witnessed a n military parade through citizens meats ments continued until by July 24 Pioneer day bo Four three of infantry and one of before fore regiments like of which had never been heen s seen pen en in the state re the tho in the greatest artillery totaling more moro than soldiers with field equipment an and transportation participated military l na pageant iii in the history of Utah In the tho latter part part of or the tho summer Colonel Samson L. L Falson Faison assigned nod t to tc toto I command the second Forty infantry to arrived at tho fort Ho lie was senior tc to toI r I f Colonel el Hasbrouck In the tho service lo by about Labout a out one ono month and being being- tho rank fing in ink officer in consequence mo post commander A later Colonel Colone Faison Falson W was S promoted to tho temporary and assigned rank of oC an to Camp Greene Ch nil ETC e in Ire His departure use caused the mantle o 0 post commander to t again tall fall to tin shoulders of or Colonel Hasbrouck Tin Timm l h. h latter then remained in command until last June when he was detached from dho tho Twentieth Iw and ordered to tin the Philippines for tor duty dUly with w a n. regiment of ot scouts scout Ills His detachment left lert Captain Walter Vallor C C. Gullion as post commander or oran an and in command of ot tho Twentieth both tho tiro 4 nd nn and regiments having havn boen been removed from the local camp tho previous lous fall tall for Camp Dodge e la Ia and Camp Pike pUce Ark re Captain Gullion was post commander lots logs than thana th n 3 a week for Cor Colonel W. W V. V H H. Jordan was assigned to command tho the Twentieth and and his arrival him In tho position of post commander About ten ton days das after Colonel Jordan took command tho the Twentieth wa wan wal r or ordered ordered or- or dered to Camp Funston and departed early last July B company battalion bat bat- tallon U. U S. S guards had been ordered here from tho the Presidio for post garrison garri- garri lSon son eon dut duty but it did not arrive until tle da day following the tho departure of or tho Twentieth As a result t tho command I of of ot tho post fell Cell to Cap Captain aln J. J H. H Stern post quartermaster Ho He remained In command Just a little less than ty-four ty hours when the arrival of ot Captain C M M. S S. S Game of ot tho the guards 8 re- re him and Captain Game Garno became Post commander Captain ln Game remained In command f i until tho the latter part of ot August when whon battalion headquarters for tor the tho guards Ir In this district t were we're established at the post post and Major James A. A Rose noso in n command of the battalion arrived an and took toole command of the tho post i l In the iho meantime the tho first battalion of or the Seventieth Railway nalla engineers hall hail been organized at tho pot post t b b b. b J C. Captain R R. R M. M Miller Jr anti and tho the depot supply en engineers under command command command com com- mand of o J. J J S. S S Bergeson had hn been I I transferred hero from Vancouver barracks barracks barracks bar bar- racks Wash 1 In conjunction with these chan changes es the secret secretary r of oC war wat designated Fort Douglas a. a a s an arm army general hospital for or rt reconstruction Llon work for the vestern western west vest ern department and Lieutenant Colonel E. E G C. was sent Bent here hero to organize or or- and establish tho the hospital All jhc the permanent buildings of pf the post Hot flOt in ill use Ut o by b the iho war prison camp Vero turned over ur to the ho hu rind and andIn In n September the 11 U S H H. H guards moved fIlo out battalion headquarters be being he- he lag ing transferred to lo Fort Geo A A. Wright Spokane Wash B n company compan of ot tho tiro guards was vas tont bont io to Butte and Great Grent Falls nils Mont for tor guard dut duty Departure of ot Major Rose Ilose of tho the guards let act tho the post command fall to Cn Captain Miller of ot the Seventieth cn- cn The captain J retained the poa po- po a about two weeks and was or- or oro to overseas 0 dut duty The night bee before botu be- be fore e ho tu left for tor tho the cast Captain J. J 0 O. CI Hunt n assigned to tho the Seventieth Se I I arrived and as senor senior officer he lIe sue suc- the next morning to command of ot tho the post A few tew days later Major J J. P P. Hallahan engineers was wae assignee assigned to command the engineer battalion He lie arrived ed and took command of ot the post relieving Captain Hunt In five lve dayt no tho major was ordered to overseas duty ut and departed Again the post command returned to tc Captain J J. J 0 O O. C C. Hunt Ordered to the Kant End A tow row months ago ngo tho Seventieth on engineers was ordered to an eastern castern embarkation port and the organization ors llon's tion s departure left Lieutenant J J. J E E. depot engineer in to command of ot the post as senior lino line officer He lie held down the Job about two weeks whon a detachment of guard officers and guards were ordered hero and antl Captain Frank linbacher guards succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- in command con of t tho the fort H lIe had been in the position only a low Cow days dais ars when Major Wesley King Icing suar guards 8 was sent here and ho assumed command command command com com- mand of the guards and the tho post Ho Ito Howan wan was In command less than a n week w when whon hon he and the guards were vero or ordered out His departure left lell Second Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Frank Stoll guards In command command command com com- mand of or tho the post and a 1 detachment of 01 temporary guards numbering 53 men Tho The second lieutenant was in command command com com- mand less than a week when G company company com com- pany of the tho Twenty first Infantry was ordered hero from tram Camp CaL Cat and arrived under command of ot First Lieutenant A. A D. D Foster Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant tenant Foster then took command of ot the post Lieutenant LI Colonel 1 Lieutenant Foster o remained In command command com com- mand mond only a 1 short time when whon tho the post underwent another change an and the command finally found permanent resting restIng resting rest rest- ing place in the hands of ot Lieutenant Colonel A A. A D D. Parce now In command of ot tho the reconstruction t hospital and of oC tho the post also In tho meantime changes had boon been going on coin in tho the command of ot other othor organizations or organisations Or- Or at tho the post too The rh Third war pr aon camp was wat established under command of ot Colonel Arthur retired d Ho passed the command overto over O to Colonel George Georgo L L. Byrom within a alow low fow months and Colonel Byram Bram Is 13 still In command of this or organization Tho Thu army aimy alIn general hospital passed from the tha command of or Lieutenant Colonel E L. G G. to Major jor W. W C C. Tho Tiro Post st quartermaster detachment passed front from the tho command of ot Capt VB W. W B. B Elliott to Capt J. J II 11 II Stern nn and then to Capt V. V i L L. Fink who remained In command until recently The Tho depot organization organisation Is Ib tho the only ono one at ut thu tho local post that hut hay not changed chanSe commanding officers since It U has been nt at the tho local post It hul holdi J the 1110 record In this lino I Three ra Fort Douglas has furnished hed throe three brigadier generals during tho limo w war nr Tho first Insl was wa Col Samson Sr 1 L L. Faison Falson who was promoted from command of tho the Infantry to brigadier general and auLl tho the second Col Cat William 11 n. Dash Dah- lull hell who was waH promoted from rom command of tho time Infantry to brigadier gin gin- l. Tho The third was Brig Gen R R. R W YounG In command of ot the Utah artillery artil- artil ler lery who Aho was sent to to France Fiance as ts i n brigadier general of ot artillery in com corn 1 mand of oC tho the Cult C th artillery art brigade othe o othe of the division di I Tho The depot and amid railway engineers engineer I Ioro wore were sent scat here for tor tho the original pur pur- purpose pose poso oso of oC con constructing a railroad spur spot from the Denver ur Rio Grande track in Sugar House to tho the post The depot engineers prepared plans and made mado surveys for the tho road and tho the construction construction construction con con- engineers were yore organized udo todo todo to u do the work worl But Dut after atter tho the government govern orn government ment mont had made tho time elaborate plans rot for forthe I tho the spur and sent troops here to construct construct con con- It when it came carne to making the tho appropriation necessary to defray detray the tho cost the finance department put a yeti vote on the improvement and the railroad spur proposition fell tell through Third War ur Prison Camp Cump Probably the tho most Interesting leat fea lea feature feature ture t rare of ot the thu war work at Fort Dougla Douglas r rwan wan found in h the war prison camp which W I ono one of or the tho three regularly regular established Institutions of ot this sort in inthe tho the United States It It v was as tho the third largest ramp mp of or this sort in tho the country coun coun- try When first established this camp was designed to tu taro care entirely entire for tor sail HaIl ors on-c and naval na men which had been Interned In In- In on their ships In Pacific wah waters wh rC tho the war first broke out and for tor oth other r in oi ot war wet that that might be Le picked up later However as there were ero more of oC this class of or prisoners picked ed up in Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic waters walen than In the Pacific I At-I the thu I big naval al camp was established at Fort Furt Oglethorpe Georgia and all prisoner I I of or this cl clu class s transferred to this camp I When tho the local camp first opened a total of or sailors from rom the German ship Interned In Guam P P. 1 I. I were sent tient to Salt Lake Jakl and during the thu early morn morning Ins ho hours hoUra n of ot ono da day In lu InJune inJune June 1917 belated citizens saw a 1 sight the they ha had er never dreamed of oC before a string of ot street cars card plying through the city at 2 o'clock In the morning loaded to lo the guards with white garbed Ger Gorman sailors sailor's all under guard of United States soldiers being trans trans- furred from front a train at tho mho Rio to the barbed wire prison campat camji camp at Fort Douglas O Over Oer er Soo 00 A little later this crew crow was vas augmented augment augment augment- augmented ed by hy about 00 mote more officers nn and sail sail- sailors sailors ors ors from irom Iho thu Geier O lel which v was aa Interned at Honolulu This made about GOO COO row Gep rowman man mt officers |