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Appendix A. Notes For “Alaska Post Returns”, Fort Gibbon, June 1910 to July 1912 |
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Source: “Alaska Post Returns”, United States Army, Continental Commands, |
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1821-1920; Fort Gibbon, Alaska, Jan. 1907 to Dec. 1916; National Archives (NARA) |
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microfilm M617 Rolls 402 (ends Dec. 1906) and 403 (Jan. 1907 to Dec. 1916); |
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Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, State Office Building, 8th Floor, |
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333 Willoughby Ave., Juneau [Weds. 1 July 2009]; http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist |
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[A. 2] |
“Signal Corps Co. K” data from Commanding Officer’s end-of-month Monthly Report |
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[A. 3] |
Column Titles: Ofcr “Officers” [number of Signal Corps Officers] / |
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PFD “Present and Fit for Duty” / A or C “Arrest or Confinement” / [Enl] Enlisted Total |
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[A. 4] |
The ‘Army Post Returns’ only show the names of the officers, along with the number |
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of enlisted servicemen in different categories (e.g. ‘PFD’, ‘Special Duty’, ‘Sick’, and |
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‘Arrest and Confinement’). The names of enlisted soldiers were not recorded here |
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[enlisted soldiers were only named in specific Death and Disciplinary cases, and there |
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are no ‘Arrest and Confinement’ records for Vern in the Fort Gibbon post records]. |
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[A. 5] |
Signal Corps staff at Fort Gibbon reduced in the summer of 1910 (June and July 1910); |
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size of Enlisted complement cut in half, from 59 to 26 total (including Vern McAninch) |
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[A. 6] |
Signal Corps Officer in Charge of Company ‘K’ at Fort Gibbon was normally a Captain |
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(except temporarily, 1st Lt. Howard Tatum, for three months in the summer of 1910) |
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[A. 7] |
Oct. 1910: A. C. Knowles, Capt., Signal Corps Company ‘K’, arrived in October 1910 |
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[A. 8] |
Dec. 1910: Knowles |
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“In charge of 3rd Section, Alaska Military Telegraph Line” [aka ‘AMTL’] |
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[A. 9] |
Winter 1910-1911: Enlisted complement varied between 20 and 26 (inc. Vern McA.) |
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June 1911: Enlisted totals 51 and (July) 43 probably due to the ‘overlap’ of personnel, |
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when out-going personnel were leaving the post, and incoming personnel were arriving |
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Winter 1911-1912: Enlisted complement varied between 25 and 35 (inc. Vern McA.) |
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[A.12] |
Spring 1912: Army Post Returns never show more than one man ‘Sick’ during |
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January, February, March, and April, 1912 (was Vern McAninch this 1 man ‘Sick’?) |
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[A.13] |
June 1912 “Wm. N. Michel, |
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Capt., Signal Corps Co. K, joined company at Ft. Gibbon on June 12, 1912”; |
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June 1912: “eight officers, including Capt. Knowles, left post on June 12th” and |
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[some personnel] “transferred to Presidio, San Francisco, via Fort St. Michael, Alaska” |
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[unfortunately, there is no list, but Vern McAninch would have been in this group |
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that was going down the Yukon River to Fort St. Michael, and then to San Francisco] |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-34 |