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Number |
Date
of event |
Event |
People
associated w/ event |
| 23 |
31 August 1834 |
Born in Thorntown,
Indiana |
|
| 117 |
29 Sept 1846 |
Hannah Cassel -
Born in Zanesville, Ohio |
|
| 34 |
September 1852 |
Entered Charlottesville
academy, Schoharie County, New York |
|
| 39 |
1 June 1855 |
Entered West Point
(5' 10 1/2", 160 lbs.) |
|
| 44 |
|
|
General Winfield
Scott |
| 45 |
February 1857 |
Resigned form West
Point |
|
| 46 |
April 1857 |
Arrived at McKinney,
Colin County, Texas, Taught school, studied law |
Sam Houston |
| 49 |
May 1858 |
Arrived At El Paso,
Texas (known as Franklin) after trip home to Indiana. |
|
| 52 |
May 1858 |
Later his suggestion
to name it El Paso was adopted |
|
| 52 |
May 1858 |
Appointed surveyor
of El Paso and Presidio Land District |
|
| 56 |
February 1859 |
Surveyed Forts Quitman,
Davis, Stockton, and Bliss, and Town of El Paso |
Samuel A.
Maverick |
| 57 |
February 1859 |
Surveyed Town of
Panos Altos near Silver City, New Mexico |
|
| 62 |
9 March 1861 |
Left El Paso for
Washington, D.C. |
|
| 62 |
21 July 1861 |
Brother Emmett,
Killed by Indians, Cook Springs, Arizona |
|
| 76 |
22 June 1861 |
Commissioned First
Lieutenant, 18th Infantry |
|
| 77 |
25 June 1861 |
Reported to Columbus,
Ohio for training |
|
| 77 |
19 July 1861 |
Opened recruiting
office Toledo, Ohio and Tiffin, Ohio |
|
| 79 |
23 February
1862 |
Ordered to Louisville,
then by boat to Nashville |
|
| 80 |
7 April 1862 |
At Battle of Shiloh
- saw little action |
|
| 82 |
|
Joined Army of the
Cumberland at Nashville, Louisville |
|
| 88 |
31 December, 1862
- 2 January 1863 |
Battle of Stone
River, 2 miles north of Murfreesboro |
|
| 90 |
19 September 1863
- 20 September 1863 |
Battle of
Chickamauga
Battle of Missionary ridge
Battle of Jonesboro |
|
| 93 |
16 December
1864 |
Battle of
Nashville |
|
| 95 |
December 1864 |
Battle of Decatur,
Alabama |
|
| 100 |
February 1865 |
Recruiting in Toledo,
Zanesville, St. Louis |
|
| 100 |
5 December 1865
to April 1866 |
Went to Washington
- appointed to Board of Visitors to West Point by President Johnson |
General U. S.
Grant |
| 104 |
|
Commanded Fort Bridger
S.W. corner, Wyoming |
Brigham Young |
| 105-109 |
|
Developed leather
cartridge belt |
Jim Bridger |
| 110 |
Spring 1867 |
2 months with General
Dodge exploring Railroad route Salt Lake to Oregon.
Then at Fort Fetterman (40 miles east of Casper, Wyoming) |
General G. M. Dodge,
Chief Engineer U.P.R.R. |
| 110 |
Spring 1868 |
At Fort Sedgwick,
Colorado (3 miles from Julesburg, Colo.) |
|
| 116 |
13 October 1868 |
Married Hannah Cassel
at Zanesville, Ohio |
|
| 119 |
16 October 1868 |
Arrived at Fort
Sedgwick with bride |
|
| 121 |
April 1869 |
To Atlanta, McPherson
Barracks |
|
| 121, 126 |
Fall 1870 |
2 months visiting
Zanesville, Ohio. Then to Laurens Court House, S. C. and Columbia |
|
| 130 |
1 January 1871 |
Transferred to 3rd
Cavalry - Visited Washington, Zanesville, ordered to Fort Halleck, Nevada
(20 miles east of Elko), then to Fort Whipple, Arizona (Prescott) |
General W. T.
Sherman |
| 132 |
2 March 1871 |
San Francisco to
San Pedro on arm transport, Lorizaba |
|
| 132 |
4 March 1871 |
Arrived San Pedro
(Drum Barracks) |
|
| 132 |
9 March 1871 |
Left by wagon train
for Arizona via Los Angeles, Cocomanga Ranch, Indian Wells, Martinez, Dos
Palmas, Ehrenbery, Date Creek |
|
| 138 |
1 April 1871 |
Date Creek |
|
| 138 |
14 April 1871 |
Arrived Fort Whipple,
Prescott, Arizona |
|
| 138 |
8 May 1871 - 15
May 1871 |
To Fort McDowell
(NE of Phoenix) |
|
| 147 |
1 December 1871 |
Ordered to Fort
McPherson, Neb. via Yuma, down Colorado to Gulf, then steamer to San
Francisco |
|
| 148 |
17 January 1872 |
Arrived at Fort
McPherson (15 miles east of North Platte, Neb. |
|
| 148 |
May 1872 |
Commanded sub-post
of North Platte |
|
| 149 |
July 1872 |
Escort to Yale
paleontological expedition on Niobrara River |
|
| 149 |
2 December 1872 |
On leave to Zanesville
for 3 months |
|
| 149 |
1873 |
Escort for Lord
Dunraven hunting party, Loop River |
Buffalo Bill Cody,
Lord Dunraven, Spotted Tail, General George Crook, General Alfred H.
Terry |
| 161 |
Winter 1874 -
1875 |
At Fort D. A. Russell
(Cheyenne) |
|
| 151 |
14 April 1875 |
Ordered to construct
and command Camp Sheridan, Neb. (northwest corner of Neb.) |
|
| 163 |
20 September
1875 |
Escorted commission
to treat with Sioux at Fort Robinson (northwest corner of Neb.) |
|
| 162 |
17 March 1876 |
Battle of Powder
River |
|
| 397 |
29 May 1876 |
Left Fort Fetterman
with Crook's Army to Camp Reno, Fort Phil Kearney (16 miles south of Sheridan,
Wyoming) and east |
Calamity Jane |
| 400 |
17 June 1876 |
Battle of the
Rosebud |
|
| 402 |
|
"Sioux best cavalry
in the world" |
|
| 166, 428 |
9 September
1876 |
Battle of Slim Buttes,
3 miles west of Reva, South Dakota |
|
| 170 |
|
Crooks command disbanded
at Fort Robinson |
|
| 170 |
1876 |
In command of Camp
Sheridan |
|
| 174 |
1877 |
On leave in
Washington |
|
| 175 |
March 1878 |
Sailed for England
and Paris |
|
| 176 |
1878 |
Commissioned Major
10th Cavalry. Served as Military AttachÈ at Paris Exposition |
|
| 180 |
18 November
1878 |
Anson Cassel Mills
born in Paris, 44 Rue de Clichy |
|
| 180 |
March 1879 |
Returned to
U.S.A. |
|
| 182 |
11 April 1879 |
Arrived Fort Concho,
Texas (San Angelo) to serve with 10th Cavalry (colored) for 12 years |
|
| 314 |
1879 |
Built power loom
for cartridge belt, Worcester, Mass. |
|
| 182 |
May 1881 |
To Fort Sill, Indian
Territory (Lawton, Oklahoma) |
|
| 182 |
22 October 1881 |
Constance Lydia
Mills born at Fort Sill |
|
| 182 |
30 October 1881 |
To Fort Concho by
wagon train |
|
| 182 |
July 1882 |
To Fort Davis, Texas
(21 miles North of Marfa) |
|
| 182 |
|
Built largest hotel
in Texas at El Paso |
General (Doctor)
Leon Wood |
| 185 |
1 April 1885 |
To Fort Thomas,
Arizona by wagon train to command Fort Grant, Arizona |
|
| 248 |
1880 +\- |
President of El
Pason and Juarez Traction Co. |
|
| 259 |
December 1888 |
Went to Washington
to request government to help for dam on Rio Grande |
|
| 199 |
May 1889 |
To Fort Bliss Texas
(El Paso) as supervising engineer under Col. Nettleton of the Geological
Survey to study proposed dam on Rio Grande |
John Wesley
Powell |
| 199 |
April 1890 |
To Presidio of San
Francisco, Lt. Col. 4th Cavalry, to Walla Walla, Washington to command
regiment |
|
| 200 |
July 1892 |
Toured Alaska on
"SS Queen" |
|
| 200 |
28 February
1893 |
To Fort McIntosh,
Texas, as Col. 3rd Cavalry in "Garza War" on lower Rio Grande |
|
| 203 |
24 June 1893 |
To Fort Reno,
Oklahoma |
|
| 203 |
|
Took 6 month leave
- went to Worcester, Mass. To prepare for retirement and operation of belt
factory |
|
| 204, 278 |
8 January 1894 |
Became U.S. Commissioner
of International Boundary Commission. First meeting in El Paso |
|
| 210 |
25 February
1894 |
Anson Cassel Mills
died, appendicitis |
|
| 219 |
1894 |
Bought home, #2
Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. |
|
| 219 |
1897 |
Retired from
Army |
|
| 219 |
|
Many trips to
Mexico |
|
| 321 |
1898 |
Licensed Hiram Maxim
to make cartridge belt in England |
Hiram Maxim |
| 234 |
25 March 1899 |
W. S. Overton wounded
in Bottle of La Loma, P.I. |
|
| 234 |
30 April 1903 |
Constance Mills
married Winfield Scott Overton |
|
| 325 |
11 September
1905 |
Sold belt
business |
|
| 308 |
1906 |
Trip to Europe with
General Miles |
Wm. McKinley, Chas.
W. Fairbanks, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark, General Phil Sheridan, Adm. Geo.
Dewey, adm. W.S. Schley, General Wm. H. Bisbee, Wm. Jennings Bryan |
| 234 |
June 1908 |
W. S. Overton retired
from Army |
|
| 239 |
1908 |
Gave water and sewer
system to Thorntown, Indiana |
|
| 241 |
|
Erected Mills Bldg.,
Washington |
|
| 241 |
1910 |
Built "Bayberry
Ledge", Gloucester, Mass. |
|
| 241 |
1912 |
Built Mills Bldg.,
El Paso, 1st monolithic reinforced concrete building in U.S.> |
|
| 304 |
March 1913 |
Championed Women's
suffrage |
Carrie Chapman
Catt |
| 302 |
1 July 1914 |
Resigned from Boundary
Commission |
|
| 169 |
July 1914 |
Unsuccessful search
for Slim Buttes Battle site |
|
| 351 |
1915 |
Visited Hawaii |
|
| 353 |
14 May 1917 |
Hannah Cassel Mills
died |
|
| 353 |
4 May 1924 |
Anson Mills
died |
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