The Republican 6-7-1889

Connecting with History

The Bugle Notes from the Fort column was written by soldiers living at Fort Niobrara along what is now the Niobrara National Scenic River in the 1880's and 1890's in "The Republican" newspaper published in Valentine, Nebraska. Fort Niobrara became a National Wildlife Refuge in 1912 when troops were moved elsewhere in the United States. Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge protects and conserves the wildlife, plants, and habitats of the Nebraska Sandhills and Niobrara River Valley. Visitors can explore the land that the soldiers trod many years ago now protected as the Niobrara National Scenic River and the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge.

Microfilm of The Republican6-7-1889, Bugle Notes from the Fort Column.

City of Valentine, Public Library.

The Republican 6-7-1889
Valentine, NE

Bugle Notes from the Fort
Editor The Republican

Corporal Nulty of Co. G has been made sargeant.

We are now having dress parade every night, Sunday excepted.

Monday was pay day here and the guardhouse is taking in its usual number of disdorderlies.

General Kautz went away on business last week and Lieut. Col. Smith takes command until his return.

The new boarding house is completed. A few of the tradesmen have arrived and the buildings have been commenced in earnest.

The most troublesome things here are the knats which walk all over a man and defy you to capSture them. You can kill a mosquito, which is a consolation itself, but a knat seems to have come into existence to keep the art of swearing from dying out.

More of the fugitive settlers came in to the fort on Sunday, with the same story of the anticipated Indian raid. Many of them look toil-worn and poor. The crops which they seem to be most successful in raising, do not enrich them any—those are crops of children. The quartermaster issued a few tents to shelter their families but the settlers left the next day on learning that there was nothing in the scare.

TAM O’SHANTER.

Textual Note:

"Bugle Notes from the Fort" articles were transcribed to reflect the original text in grammar, spelling, and formatting. Errors are true to the original text and reflect the historic context of their authorship.