The 1916 Mobilizaton Camps

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Pat Holscher
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Pat Holscher
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Wyoming
At Cheyenne near Fort D.A. Russell (now Francis E. Warren AFB)
. The fort was the designated mobilization pointfor Wyoming. A newspaper article reported that the guardsmen were using the barracks at the fort
.“Bureaucratic red tape”caused this to change even though the barracks were empty, according to Col. Gerald M. Adams, The Post Near Cheyenne, A History of Fort D.A. Russell, 1867-1930, Pruett Publishing Co., 1989. The 1916 Report states at page134 that the Wyoming Guard “should have been mobilized at Fort D.A. Russell instead of just outside the reservation.”

According to a Denver Post article, the War Department gave permission to the Wyoming Guard to use Fort D.A. Russell and then rescinded permission. At least one company of the Guard moved into the barracks prior to the War Department’s change of mind. The Guard then established a tent camp north of the fort.

The Wyoming camp was named Camp Kendrick after then Governor John B. Kendrick of Wyoming.

Many buildings that were at Fort D.A. Russell in 1916 still stand
In the barracks and then out into tents, with the barracks empty.

Well that stunk.
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