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FORT ASSINNIBOINE,
The description of this post was complied in the office of 1st. Lieutenant, John Biddle, Engineer Corps, Chief Engineer Officer of the Departman of Dakota, principally from the information furnished by Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Coppings, 18th Infantry, commanding the post. The plats of the post and reservation were taken from drawings made uner the directions of 2st Lieutenant G.S. Hoyt, 18th Infantry, Regimental Quartermaster.
Established May 9th, 1879, occupied same date by 18th U.S. Infantry.
Situated on the left bank of Beaver creek, about five miles from its confluence with Milk river. Post office and telegraph station at post. The nearest Railroad Station is Helena, M.T. on the Northern Pacific Railroad, distance 196 miles . Direct wagon road to Fort Benton, M.T. which is good in summer and fair in winter, travel is at time impeded by high water in the streams, especially the Marias river, over which there are no bridges; road about one-fourth transit to railroad, three days in summer and four days in winter. Tri-weekly mail at post, carried in coaches and sleighs arranged for passengers and express matter. Mean temperature in summer, 67.0.3, Mean temperature in winter is 50.9.
Buildings, Quarters for ten companies: five buildings, three store brick buildings. Commanding officer’s quarters, field officer quarters: two building, Company officers quarters: 12 building,Chpel, two story brick building. Hospital: brick building, two wards with 24 beds, built according to plan furnished in Circular No. 10, Surgeon General’s Office, 1877, also regulation sized dead house in detached wooden building. Gymasium and band quarters: two story brick building.room for bowling alleys and dressing rooms respectively; first story, gymnasium hall, with state, dressing room and bowling alleys, second story, band quarters.
Indians: 1150 Gros Ventres and 1000 Assinniboines at Fort Belknap, M.T. Agency; they are at present peaceable. Principal chiefs are “Running Fisher, “Big Beaver Afraid of the Bear “Jerry” White Eagle and Black Crow.” (source) Reservation declared by the President and published in General Orders No. 8, headquarters Dept. of Dakotas dated June 18th, 1881.
FORT ASSINNIBOINE, MONTANA
Some information found in the Adjutant General's Office concerning that post.
Location: on the left bank of Beaver Creek, about four miles south of its junction with Mild River, in what is now Choterau County, Montana, 71 miles northeast of Fort Benton, and 88 miles west of the Indian Agency of Fort Belknap.
It was established in 1879 for the purpose of protecting citizens of Montana from the hostile incursions of Indians
dwellings in that region, and that of the portion of the Sioux that had withdrawn across the international line in the
latter part of 1876 under Sitting Bull and other leaders.
Name: First called Fort Assiniboine, presumably after the name of a tripe of Yankton Sioux that inhadited that locatlity. The spelling of the name was subsequently changed by the War Department to Assinnibonine.
Chronolgy:
1877
Lieutenant General P.H. Sheridan, commanding the Military division of the Missouri, recommended the establishing of a new military post on Milk River near old Fort Belknap.\
1878:
June 18, Congress appropriated $100,000 for the building of a new fort.
July 28. Lieutenant Colonel J.R. Brooke, 3 Infantry, coming and District of Montana, had been detailed to select a site,
made a report recommending the site where the post was subsequently located.
Nov. 23. The Secretary of the Interior informed the Secretary of War that the site selected was within the reservation for Gros Ventre, Piegan and Blackfoot Indians, etc. and had been set apart for them by a treaty of April 25, 1856.
Novenber 25, the Secretary of War approved a proposition so establish there a military reservation
OCT. 1895.
This is from the “ROSTER OF TROOPS” serving in the DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA.
Commanded by Brigadier General John R. Brooke, U.S. Army, Headquarters in St.Paul, Minn.
Geographical Limits: States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, (except that portion lying south of the 45th parallel
west of the Missouri River and all south of the 44th parallel past of that river) and Monana and the Post of Fort
Yellowstone, Wyoming. more to be added.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF DAKOTA, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER 1895
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Assiniboine 2 Belknap Benton 1 Benton 2 Big Spring Creek
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Cass Chardon Charles Clagett Connah
Conrad Crook Cummings Custer Ellis
Fizzle Flathead Post 1 Flathead Post 2 Fourchette Galpin
Gilbert Glendive Green Clay Smith Grey Hill Harrison
Hawley Helena Henry 1 Henry 2 Henry 3
Howes Howie Howse Jackson Janeaux's Post
Jordan Keogh Kaiser Kipp Kootenai House
Kootenai Post 1 Kootenai Post 2 Kootenai Post 3 Kootenai Post 4 La Barge
Lewis 1 Loder Logan Maginnis Malcom Clark
Manuel Elizabeth Meagher Thomas Meagher Merritt Missoula
Morris Musselshell Ophir Owen Owen Mc Kenzie's Post
Parker Pease Peck Piegan 1 Piegan 2
Piegan 3 Camp Poplar Poplar R. Post Porter Reed's Fort
Rivet's Post Rocky Point Roulett's Post Saleesh House 1 Saleesh House 2
Sarpy 2 Shaw Skalkaho Sherman C F Smith
R B Smith Stanley's Stockade Stevens Stewart 1 Stewart 2
Terry Union 2 Van Buren Wright
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