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First Soldiers Reach Fort Ellis After 1869 Wyoming Montana trek
Diary notes tell how four Second Cavalry companies moved from Fort Sanders Wyoming to Fort Ellis Montana in 1869. The overland march began May 19 with 250 plus troops, ox and mule drawn wagons, and days of slow progress through mud and camps.
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Fort Ellis
Wyoming
Montana
Thomas B. Marquis
Plains
A. G. Brackett
Historical Society of Montana
Colonel Brackett
United States Cavalry
Department of Dakota
Dakota Territory
Military Department
St. Paul
Second Cavalry
Fort Sanders
Wyo
Laramie
Department of the Platte
Dakota” Department
Union Pacific
Carter
Carter's
Fort Bridger
Brackett
Gregg
Harwood
Swiger
Philip C. Davis
Gustavus C. Doane
West
Dr. Hunter
Bozeman
L Company
Beauvais
Winfield Scott Hancock
Snake River
Mississippi
St. Louis
Bracket
Hancock
Virginia City
Garfield
United States
Mont
Phil Kearney
Reno
C. F. Smith
Bozeman Trail
Taylor
Taylor & Anderson
Stinkingwater Valley
Ruby Valley
J. A. Slade
Rocky Mountain
Masonic Hall
Madison County
Sterling
West Gallatin
Erskine’s
Grayling
Yellowstone