Fort Thomas Barracks
Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 October 1890,
page 7
Mr. Hal Young, son of Captain Young of the
Barracks, left last night for Dover NY.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Nov 1892, page 7
Colonel Wherry and Captain Townsend, of the Newport Barracks, left for the Soldier's Home at Dayton Ohio, to attend to official business.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 January 1893, page 7
Barney Adams, one of Uncle Sam's privates at the Newport Barracks, has fallen heir to $10,000 by the death of his mother in Pennsylvania.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 April 1895, page 6
Military Convict Hughes was discharged from the service yesterday, after completing a sentence of one year in the guard house for desertion. Pending the sodding and improvements which Colonel Cochran is putting on the main parade, guard mounting will be held on the small parade grounds on the river front.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 April 1895, page 6
Inspection will take place this morning at 9 o'clock, followed by guard mounting and a band concert. Recruit Thomas Mayfield reported for duty yesterday and was assigned to Company C. Private Leroy S Hotchkiss, Company A, has been granted a furlough for three months. He left yesterday for Madison Ind. where he will spend his leave. Sergeant Edward Curey, Company H, returned from the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, much improved in health. He has been absent since December, undergoing treatment for rheumatism.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 June 1895, page 7
Chaplain and Mrs. Springer are occupying Quarters No 42. Private William Doorley, Company F, was honorable discharge yesterday after five years service. This afternoon Lieutenant Saffarrans, with the post signal detachment, will take up a position on top of the water tower and communicate with the rifle range by means of the heliograph.
Robert Jackson, who accompanies the Cree Indians as interpreter, is well known to some of the older members of the Sixth Infantry. During former days, when the regiment was campaigning among the Bad Lands of Dakota "Bob" frequently made his appearance with dispatches from the commanding General.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 September 1901, page 7
Private Walter Gray, Company D, Second Infantry, was tried for desertion and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and confinement at hard labor for 18 months. Gray, it will be recalled, escaped from a sentry a few days ago and ran the gauntlet of a fusillade of shots from sentries, but was afterward recaptured. Corporal James F Keenan, Company A, Second Infantry, has been granted a three months' furlough.
Private Virgil Foultz, Company A, Eighth Infantry and Private Harry Meyers, Seventy-eighth Company of Coast Artillery, were both tried by general Court martial convened at this post and found guilty of desertion and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and 10 months confinement at hard labor.
Sergeant Willie McHale, Company D Second Infantry, having been tried by general Court marital convened at this post and found guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline upon the citation of six previous convictions was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged. Private Geo Hoffman, Company A, Second Infantry, has been sent to the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. for treatment.
Private Harold M Weir, Company D, Second Infantry, late clerk in the Adjutant's office at this post, left yesterday for Syracuse NY where he was ordered on general recruiting duty. Private Charles E Schryer, general service USA who was tried by general Court martial convened at this post and found guilty of unmilitary conduct and sentenced to one month's imprisonment, has been ordered to Columbus Barracks for duty, the sentence having been remitted.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 November 1901, page 8
The old Park Roberta saloon in the Midway, which has been the scene of many disorderly events within the past few months, was closed yesterday preparatory to fumigation. Private Samuel Fogg, Company B Fourteenth Infantry, reported here yesterday from Ft. Wayne, Mich. absent without leave and was assigned to Company B Second Infantry.
Battalion Sergeant Major Montgomery and Musician John Williams left yesterday for Carlisle, Ky. to visit thelatter's parents and engage in a few days hunt. Lieutenant Paul C Hutton, Post Surgeon left yesterday for Columbus Barracks to attend a detachment of recruits to San Francisco.