A Soldier’s Life at Fort Douglas in the Early 1900s

Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, October 1995 On a frosty morning in 1902 a U. S. Army troop train stopped in Salt Lake City where the 1st Battalion and regimental headquarters of the 12th Infantry detrained. After three years in the Philippines they had been reassigned to regular Army posts in the States. Some units drew Fort Duchesne in the …