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The Court-Martial.
The Case of Colonel Benteen of Fort Duchesne.
Considerable interest in local military circles attaches to the trial by
court-martial of Colonel Benteen, the officer in command at Fort
Duchesne. There appears to have been troubles at that post which are
deemed serious at Washington, since the Inspector-General,
Brigadier-General Baird, has recently been sent there on an inspecting
trip. It is not known what relation, if any this inspection has to the
difficulties that resulted in the trial of Colonel Benteen. We
understand that the numerous officers who are to sit as the Colonel's
inquisitors, regret that the trial is not to occur at Salt Lake, since
the trip to Fort Duchesne, at this season of the year, is apt to be cold
and disagreeable, while the post itself is new and little more than a
camp at present. The Fort is eight or a hundred miles from the D. & R.
G. railroad.
Source: The Salt Lake herald. February 05, 1887, Page 6, transcribed
by MA Schwanke
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