17th US Infantry Invoice For Camp & Garrison Equipage. – SOLD

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17th US Infantry Invoice For Camp & Garrison Equipage, turned over to Captain Edward Collins, 17th Infantry, by 1st Lieutenant Malcolm McArthur, 1st Bn, 17th Infantry, at Galveston, Texas in November of 1866.

Edward Collins enlisted as a private, artificer, corporal in Company “A”,  U.S. 1st Battalion of Engineers in 1846, then sergeant in the same company from 1851, to 1861, and was discharged for promotion, becoming a 1st Lieutenant in the 17th U.S. Infantry on May 4, 1861.  Promoted to captain about a year later.  Collins would transfer to the 1st Infantry as a major in June of 1882, then LtCol. in the 7th Infantry in February of 1887.  He retired the next year on January 1, 1888.

In the Indian Wars era, he spent nearly all the time in the 1870’s on frontier service. He and his company E, were part of General David Stanley’s Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, and the Little Big Horn (Sioux) Campaign of 1876. Company E was stationed at the new Standing Rock Agency near Fort Yates as of 1873. Promoted to major 1st Infantry in 1882, and LtCol. 7th Infantry in 1887. Retired in 1888.

Malcolm McArthur, USMA Class of 1865. His first two and a half years were spent on the frontier in Texas as 2nd and 1st Lieutenant in the 17th Infantry. Some Reconstruction duty in the South, then transferred to the Northern Plains with stations of Ft. Sully, Cheyenne Agency, Ft Rice, Wadsworth, Abercrombie, Ft. Lincoln, Sisseton, and Fort Totten. While in the Dakota Territory, he was on the 1872 Yellowstone Expedition and survey under General Stanley, and with General Terry’s Column in the 1876 Sioux Campaign. He died in 1888 in Livingston, Maine.