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 Note to Mr. Leupp: 
 
 I send you herewith a book published by the Class of 1886 
 of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the occasion of the 
 25th anniversary of its graduation. The book was sent to President Wheeler 
 for the library by General Avery D, Andrewsof that class, and has been ac- 
 cepted in a letter of appreciation by the President. It is of special in- 
 terest because three members of the Class of 1886 have been Commandantt 
 in the University (rf California - Major Frank L. Winn, Major E. M. Lewis and 
 Major John T. Nance. 
 

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Foreword 
 
 Cl^SSMATES : 
 
 This volume has been prepared as a souvenir of the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of our graduation. The record of the 
 Class since graduation has justified the high promise of its 
 cadet days, and has added its due proportion to the fame and 
 honor of the Military Acadenw. 
 
 Disciplined by Merritt, drilled and trained by Hasbrouck, 
 and taught by an Academic Board headed by Michie, the 
 foundations for our careers were laid deep and strong, and 
 fortimate indeed were we to have siu'vived the crucial tests of 
 these mighty men. But not only did we survive, but on June 
 12, 1886, we graduated seventy-seven strong, the largest class 
 in the first century of the Academy; nor was it imtil 1903, 
 as a result of the Spanish War and the consequent enlargement 
 of the Armj'^ and the Cadet Corps, that our number was 
 exceeded. 
 
 Inspired by the galaxy of illustrious men whose deeds 
 have made the Academj^ famous among the institutions of the 
 world, we left West Point in the full enthusiasm of youth, 
 
 "With spirit of honour edged 
 More sharper than your swords." 
 
 After twenty-five years we now return, on the sunny side 
 of old age, fully conscious of our shortcomings, but proud 
 that '86 has added naught but lustre to the shield of our Alma 
 Mater. 
 
 Out of seventy-seven graduates, sixty-one now survive. 
 Sixteen, including Godfrey, killed in action in the Philippines, 
 Elliot, W. G., a victim of fever in the trenches before Santiago, 
 
 240998 
 
and Seward Mott, murdered by an Indian in Arizona, have 
 gone on before. 
 
 "On fame's eternal camping ground 
 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 And Glory guards with solemn round 
 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
 Of the survivors, nine resigned after several years of 
 service, to engage in business or professional pursuits; five 
 have retired from active service; and forty-seven now remain 
 on the active list of the Army. Of these, one is a Brigadier 
 General, one a Colonel, twelve are Lieutenant Colonels, and 
 thirty-three are Majors. Eight have sons at the Military 
 Academy, and one at the Naval Academy. 
 
 In the following pages we have printed a greeting from 
 Pershing, the Class President, a Class History by Riche, 
 written after the reunion, an article on the old and new 
 West Point by Traub, a poem and obituaries by McMahon, 
 a special obituary of Elliot, W. G., by Winn. These, with the 
 autobiographical sketches of surviving members, their photo- 
 graphs, and the Class songs, complete the volume. 
 
 The preparation of this volume has been a work of love, 
 the purpose of which will have been fully served if it helps to 
 maintain and increase the class spirit and esprit de corps which 
 have ever distinguished '86. 
 
 A. D. A. 
 
 Philadelphia, June, 1911. 
 
Greeting to the Class 
 
 Headquarters Department or Mindanao, 
 
 Zamboanga, p. I., 
 March 15, 1911. 
 To the Class of 1886, 
 
 U. S. Military Academy, 
 West Poifit, New York. 
 Dear Classmates : 
 
 The announcement in the circular sent out by your 
 committee, saying that I would write a letter of greeting 
 to be read at the class reunion, imposes upon me a very pleasant 
 obligation. It gives me an opportunity as Class President to 
 write you collectively, and to say many things that I would 
 like to say if I were writing to each individual. Above all, 
 however, I am thus permitted to feel myself a real part of the 
 reunion. This letter shall be a heartfelt and sincere word of 
 greeting from the opposite side of the world. I shall try to 
 imagine myself among you around the banquet table, or per- 
 haps again in the old tower room, first floor, first division, or 
 familiarly even in the "usual place." With this greeting I 
 send also a word of explanation and regret for my absence, a 
 few lines of reminiscence, and pages of affection and friend- 
 ship, all recorded at random. 
 
 It is unfortunate indeed for me that higher authority has 
 concluded that I should not leave my post just at this time. 
 This is a great disappointment to me. There is nothing that 
 could equal the pleasure of meeting once more with old '86 — 
 companions of my youth, the friendship for whom is, above all 
 others, the dearest and most lasting. To be again for a few 
 hours, as in the olden days at West Point, with those who stood 
 shoulder to shoulder with me, and I with them, through our 
 four years, would be worth great sacrifice. The thought makes 
 me long for cadet days again. I would gladly go back into the 
 
corps (although, of course, it has gone entirely to the dogs 
 since we were cadets) , and gladly (in spite of this) go through 
 the whole course from beginning to end to be with you all as we 
 were then. Life meant so much to us — probably more than it 
 ever has since — when the soul was filled to the utmost with 
 ambition and the world was full of promise. 
 
 The proudest days of my life, with one exception, have 
 come to me in connection with West Point, — days that stand 
 out clear and distinct from all others. The first of these was the 
 day I won my appointment at Trenton, Missoiu'i, in a competi- 
 tive examination with seventeen competitors. An old friend of 
 the family happened to be in Trenton that day and, passing on 
 the opposite side of the street, called to me and said, "John, I 
 hear you passed with flying colors." In all seriousness, feeling 
 the great importance of my success, I naively replied in loud 
 voice, "Yes, I did," feeling assured that no one had ever quite 
 passed such a fine examination as I had. The next red-letter 
 day was when I was elected President of the Class of '86. I 
 didn't know much about class presidents until the evening of 
 our meeting to effect a class organization. To realize that a 
 body of men for whom I had such an affectionate regard should 
 honor me in this way was about all that my equilibrium would 
 stand. Another important day was when I made a cold max in 
 Phil at June examination, under dear old Pete, with Arthur 
 Murray as instructor. This was the only max I ever made in 
 anything. I fairly floated out of the librarj^ and back to bar- 
 racks. The climax of days came when the makes were read 
 out on graduation day in Jime, 1885. Little Eddy Gayle 
 smiled when I reported five minutes later with a pair of cap- 
 tain's chevrons pinned on my sleeves. No honor can ever come 
 to equal that. I look upon it in the very same light today as 
 I did then. Some way these days stand out and the recollection 
 of them has always been to me a great spur and stimulus. 
 
 What memories come rushing forward to be recorded ! It 
 was at Colonel Huse's school, now called "The Rocks," I 
 believe, with splendid old Caleb at its head, that several of us 
 
got the first idea of what we were really in for. Deshon, Frier, 
 Winn, Andrews, Clayton, Billy Wright, Stevens, Legare, and 
 the rest of iis at Caleb's used to wrestle with examinations of 
 previous years and flyspeck page after page of stuff that we 
 forgot completely before plebe camp was over. 
 
 This brings us up to a period of West Point life whose 
 vivid impressions will be the last to fade. Marching into camp ; 
 piling bedding; policing company streets of logs of wood care- 
 lessly dropped by upper classmen; pillow fights at tattoo, with 
 Marcus Miller, sabre drawn, marching up and down super- 
 intending the plebe class policing up feathers from the general 
 parade; light artillery drills; double timing arouncidkold Fort 
 Clinton at morning squad drill; Wiley Bean and the sad fate 
 of his seersucker coat ; midnight dragging ; and the whole sum- 
 mer full of events can only be mentioned in passing. No one 
 can ever forget his first guard tour with all its preparation and 
 perspiration. I got along all right during the day, but at 
 night on the color line my troubles began. Of course, I was 
 scared beyond the point of properly applying any of my orders. 
 A few minutes after taps, ghosts of all sorts began to appear 
 from all directions. I selected a particularly bold one and 
 challenged according to orders, "Halt! who comes there?" 
 At that the ghost stood still in his tracks. I then said, "Halt ! 
 who stands there?" whereupon the ghost, who was carrying a 
 chair, sat down, when I promptly said, "Halt! who sits there?" 
 
 After plebe camp came plebe Math and French. I never 
 stood high in French and was prone to burn the midnight oil. 
 One night Walcutt and Bentley ]Mott came in to join me. 
 My roommate, Lucy Hunt, was in bed asleep. Suddenly we 
 heard Flaxy, who was officer in charge, coming up the stairs 
 several steps at a time. Mott sprang across the hall into his 
 own room. I snatched the blanket from the window, turned 
 out the light and leaped into bed, clothing and all, while Wal- 
 cutt, seeing escape impossible, gently woke Hunt, and in a 
 whisper said,. "Lucy, may I crawl under your bed?" I paid 
 the penalty by walking six tours of extra duty. 
 
The rest of it — yearling camp and its release from plebe- 
 dom; the first appearance in the riding hall of the famous '86 
 New England Cavalry; furlough and the return up the Hud- 
 son on the Mary Powell ; second class year, with its increasing 
 responsibilities and dignity — must all be passed with slight 
 notice. While the days were not always filled with unalloyed 
 pleasure, to be sure, yet no matter how distasteful anything 
 else may have been up to that time, there is none of us who 
 would not gladly live first class camp over again — summer 
 girls, summer hops, first class privileges, possible engage- 
 ments, twenty-eighth hop, then the home-stretch. As we look 
 back from the distance of a quarter of a century the years went 
 by all too rapidly. 
 
 The career of '86 at West Point was in many respects 
 remarkable. There were no cliques, no dissensions; and per- 
 sonal prejudices or selfishness, if any existed, never came to the 
 surface. From the very day we entered, the class as a unit has 
 always stood for the very best traditions of West Point. The 
 spirit of old West Point existed to a higher degree in the Class 
 of '86 than in am'' class since the war. The West Point under 
 Merritt, Michie and Hasbrouck was still the West Point of 
 Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Schofield and Howard. The deep 
 impression these great men made during their visits to West 
 Point in our day went far to inspire us with the soldier's spirit 
 of self-sacrifice, duty and honor. These characteristics were 
 carried with us into the Army and have marked the splendid 
 career of the class during the past twenty-five years. The 
 Class of '86 has always been known in the Army and is known 
 today as a class of all-around solid men — men capable of ably 
 performing any duty and of loyally fulfilling any trust. The 
 individual character of each man has made itself felt upon his 
 fellows in the Army from the start. In civil life, as profes- 
 sional men, or as men of affairs, wherever placed, the Class of 
 '86 has always made good. Well may we congratulate ovu'- 
 selves, upon reaching this quarter-century milestone, on the 
 achievements of the class. 
 
If I thought you would listen longer, I should continue, 
 but the evening will be full of song and reminiscence. Those 
 of us out here will assemble in jNIanila and wish we were with 
 you at West Point. It may be that age and experience will 
 prevent a repetition of the liu'id scenes enacted at the class 
 dinner in Xew York in '86. Yet when you feel time turn back- 
 ward and the hot blood of those days again courses through 
 your veins, there is no telling what may happen. Still all will 
 be for the glory of the class and will be condoned. Then, here's 
 to the Class of '86, wives and sweethearts, children and grand- 
 children, your health and your success. 
 
 Always affectionately, 
 
 J. J. P. 
 
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 Our Dead, 1886-1911 
 
 We meet tonight around the board 
 
 With song and joke and clink of glasses, 
 
 And 'neath the shadow of the sword 
 
 We drink the health of wives and lasses. 
 
 We live again the days of old, 
 
 When life was young and full of laughter, 
 When, clad in gallant grey and gold. 
 
 We gaily faced the dark hereafter. 
 
 We cheer our sons, as, straight and true, 
 The grey line marches past in splendor; 
 
 While we who wear the Army blue 
 To them the sacred trust surrender — 
 
 The sacred trust to bear on high 
 
 The banner of our rock-bound Mother, 
 
 For duty's sake to gladly die 
 
 Amid the battle's roar and smother. 
 
 The lights burn low, the gay songs still, 
 Dim forms fill up the vacant places; 
 
 The dawn-wind moans in accents chill, 
 The air is full of phantom faces. 
 
 We hear our comrades' ghostly tread. 
 As home they come in sombre glory, 
 
 To listen as we toast the dead. 
 
 To hear us tell their life's brief story. 
 
 Thej' kept the faith we swore to keep; 
 
 When Honor called, they did not falter; 
 Their hearts, now stilled in blessed sleep. 
 
 They laid upon their country's altar. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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A Brief History of the Class 
 
 By the Historian 
 
 SOMEBODY, somewhere, has said "Fortunate is the 
 nation without a history." Until now the Class of '86 
 
 has been similarly fortunate. 
 
 If we apply this old saying directly to the class and 
 reduce it to the accurate language of our mathematical coiu'se, 
 we would express it something like this: The good fortune 
 of the class is inversely proportional in volume to the quantity 
 and quality of its history. 
 
 Wishing nothing but well for the class, it has therefore 
 seemed that the greatest benefit that could be bestowed upon 
 it would be to reduce its history to the vanishing point, and 
 this has heretofore been the endeavor of the class historian. 
 
 It is one of the universal failings of our poor human 
 nature, however, never to let well enough alone, and so in 
 response to repeated and imperious demands by letters and 
 by "slams" of various kinds at and after our twenty-fifth 
 anniversary reunion, the historian will take up his task and 
 at the risk of injin-ing the class record for good fortune will 
 endeavor to tell in brief form how it all happened. 
 
 We must, however, bear in mind one of "Our Postle's" 
 sayings, that "history is a unit." This reminds us of one 
 of the series of questions and answers in our last hundredth 
 night Howitzer. The question was "How can we prove the 
 unity of history?" and the answer "By averaging Teddy God- 
 frey's marks." Let it be hoped, therefore, that no reader of 
 this record will be induced to pull out his blue pencil and go 
 to marking it, for the result might be even less than the limit 
 imposed by Our Postle. 
 
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In one way, however, a unity is proved by the history of 
 the class. It is doubtful if any other class, at the Military 
 Academy or elsewhere, was ever more harmonious, freer from 
 cliques, and imbued with more genuine affection among its 
 members than our Class of '86. Although we constituted the 
 largest class graduated during the first century of the Acad- 
 emy's existence, we were free from internal dissensions of any 
 kind; brotherly affection and the milk of human kindness 
 were evident in all our dealings with each other, and looking 
 back over the twenty-five years that have passed since we 
 separated, each and all of us can feel that our recollections 
 of the Academy are filled with as pleasant relationships among 
 the members of the class as have ever come into our lives; 
 they are freer from regrets and fuller of good fellowship and 
 kindliness than our relations since with any other set of associ- 
 ates can possibly have been. The class was most emphatically 
 a unit and nothing can make it anything else. The shoulder- 
 to-shoulder spirit that we displayed for four years has 
 remained with us and will remain until the end. 
 
 Coming, as we did, from all parts of this great country, 
 and numbering at our maximum over a hundred and thirty, 
 it is remarkable that this unity of spirit should have mani- 
 fested itself from the start and should have endured. That 
 it did so shows what all members of the class will freely admit, 
 that we were the most remarkable aggregation of good fellows 
 that ever came together. If this statement is disputed, we 
 may be sure it will not be disputed by any member of the 
 class; and if it is disputed by anyone else, we may lay the 
 motive to jealousy and not worry about it. Nevertheless it 
 is the truth. 
 
 Do we not all remember scanning the newspapers that 
 contained lists of candidates, and for the first time reading 
 the names that have since become so familiar? Then when 
 we had one by one reported for examination, and had success- 
 fully passed the ordeal at the "office" of the cadets who were 
 in charge of candidates, and were assigned to rooms in barracks 
 
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until our examinations were over, our first acquaintanceship 
 ripened the quicker into friendship by reason of our designa- 
 tion by the older cadets as "Beasts." Think of it, we were 
 something lower in the scale of existence than "Plebes!" (hence 
 what could we be but beasts), and our temporary sojourn in 
 barracks will ever be remembered by us as "Beasts' Barracks." 
 Woe then to the dignity of the unfortunate candidate who had 
 reported with great notions of his personal importance and 
 of his mission in life. If Beasts' Barracks did not bring him 
 down to the general level he did not remain — at least not in 
 the Class of '86. 
 
 But we were much occupied with our preliminary exami- 
 nations and with eleventh-hour efforts to perfect ourselves 
 for them. These were gone through with, and one rainy day 
 after dinner we were marched back to barracks and lined 
 up on the porch, and the names of the unsuccessful candidates 
 were read out, each one stepping to the front as his name 
 was called, and departing to pack up his effects and leave. 
 The rest of us were given no chance for congratulating one 
 another, but without breaking ranks instruction was immedi- 
 ately begun in the "position of the soldier," and for at least 
 an hour we were braced and badgered by the older cadets until 
 we were filled with envy for those who were going awa\^ 
 
 And then for some weeks followed our squad drills. We 
 may be sure that no motions were slighted. The older cadets 
 were the drillmasters, and they saw to it that the work was 
 thoroughly done, even by the celebrated awkward squad, many 
 of whom have since become distinguished for other things than 
 awkwardness. 
 
 And then we were considered sufficiently broken in to be 
 sent to camp, Plebe Camp, where we were never free from the 
 interest and inspection of the older cadets, where we had 
 to depress our toes even in sleep and where all such "hazing" 
 as we got did us good and not harm, for there was no brutality 
 about it, nothing but chaff and good and successful efforts 
 to take away from us such modicum of conceit as may have 
 survived Beasts' Barracks. 
 
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Cannot each of us remember his first tour of guard duty? 
 It was then he donned the full cadet uniform for the first 
 time. How difficult it was for him to get it all on straight, 
 how hopeless it would have been without the assistance, the 
 real kindly assistance, of the older cadet whose "special dutj^ 
 man" he happened to be. And what an ordeal guard mounting 
 was, when he was thoroughly inspected and strenuous fault 
 found with every little detail that was not just so. And then 
 the instructions for sentinels and the many unexpected situa- 
 tions that would be framed up to test his knowledge of them 
 and his readiness in applying them. Maybe it would all be 
 classed today as hazing, perhaps it was, but it did none of us 
 harm, and made us all the more capable of acting and thinking 
 for oiu'selves. On the exceptional occasions when proper 
 bounds in such matters were exceeded and the situation 
 became unduly personal, affairs were adjusted squarely in 
 the good old Anglo-Saxon way and the incident was closed. 
 We are all the better off for our plebe camp experiences. 
 
 Before the close of camp we became excellently "set up" 
 and fairly well drilled and took part in all battalion drills 
 and ceremonies. Then came the breaking up of camp, the end 
 of all hazing, and oin* return to barracks to begin our studies, 
 and with our studies came the "Seps." 
 
 The Seps, as we all know, were those unfortunate beings 
 who for one cause or another had been prevented from 
 reporting as candidates in June and who were permitted to 
 report in September; many of them, in fact, had succeeded to 
 the appointments of those who had failed in the June exami- 
 nations. For a while the Seps had a hard time, squad drills, 
 hazing, and studies going on all at once. It was a severe 
 handicap, and they were not fairly over it for several months. 
 
 But the serious part of our Academy life had now begun. 
 Our studies, while at the start consisting of but two. Mathe- 
 matics and English, had to be learned thoroughly. Approxi- 
 mate information did not go. Our recitations were not mere 
 questions and answers. Each man was given a subject on 
 
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which to recite. He went to the blackboard, wrote his name 
 in the upper right-hand corner and the title of his subject 
 in the centre. Below he made such notes as he needed, and 
 when ready to recite faced the instructor with a pointer in 
 his hand until called on. Then he delivered himself with 
 credit or discredit as circumstances permitted. If he "maxed" 
 it would be because he had not only gotten everything right, 
 but also because he had not omitted anything that belonged 
 to his subject. If the instructor had to question him regard- 
 ing anything that he might have omitted, his mark would 
 be shaded even if his answers were correct. It was a hard 
 school but a thorough one, and its chief merit was not so much 
 in the subjects that were taught as in the fact that it forced 
 us to learn how to study, that being a matter largely neglected 
 in these piping days of manual training and other fads. 
 
 But the unfortunate cadet who had been assigned a sub- 
 ject regarding which his ignorance was profound had no other 
 recourse than to fill his blackboard full of alleged notes and 
 keep up a semblance of working until the bugle blew announ- 
 cing the close of the recitation hour. Occasionally he might 
 succeed in thus "bugling it" and escaping a failure, but the 
 instructors had all been cadets themselves and knew the signs 
 and would rarely allow the victim to escape unquestioned. 
 If called upon he would face about and do his best; it was 
 soon found to be unwise to confess ignorance, as that would 
 lead to demerits as well as to a low mark, while an earnest 
 effort might escape with the low mark alone. 
 
 Do we not all remember forced recitations of this kind, and 
 the many amusing things that happened during them? At 
 the risk of being needlessly reminiscent there is one such 
 incident that ought to be preserved. It was during such a 
 forced recitation on the part of our lamented and much beloved 
 "Moses" Fulton. It was in French. Moses had the unfortu- 
 nate characteristic of talking the louder the less he knew. He 
 encountered a French word that he did not know. The word 
 has long since been forgotten, but it meant the retaining fee 
 
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 of a lawyer. The instructor asked Moses what the word meant, 
 and JNIoses, being in good voice, replied with vigor : 
 
 "I am not certain as to the exact meaning of that word, 
 but I think it is a machine for grubbing stumps." 
 
 And so we groimd away on our academic course, with 
 study and recitation periods interspersed, with drills when the 
 weather was favorable, and when nobody had packed snow 
 aroimd the bulb of the official thermometer to make the Com- 
 mandant think it was too cold; and finally came the January 
 examinations, Plebe January, the time when the majority of 
 those who were going to be found deficient during our course 
 would be so "found." 
 
 One of the policemen who cleaned barracks daily. Old 
 "Corny," who possessed more good natin*e than wit, had an 
 invariable reply to anyone who teased him. It was "Niver 
 mind, January's comin'," and for many good fellows it came, 
 and they left us never to retiu'n. 
 
 But before our Januarj^ examinations was our New 
 Year's dinner. There was then a custom (discontinued before 
 we graduated) of drinking toasts (with water only) at this 
 dinner. The Plebes, being social nobodies, could not join in 
 this, but enjoyed the many good toasts proposed by the older 
 cadets. It is not remembered that this privilege was in any 
 way abused, and the reason for its discontinuance is not known. 
 
 Our studies were resumed at once after the January 
 examinations, French being added. With these we worked 
 out our plebe year. Spring came and then June, and with 
 it our examinations, which lost for us a few more of our 
 members. Also we had numerous exhibition drills of every 
 kind, and were inspected by the august Board of Visitors and 
 by the brilliant array of ladies who had come for the celebra- 
 tions. Our time was almost at hand and with the graduation 
 of the first class it arrived. 
 
 As plebes we had invariably been addressed by the older 
 cadets with the prefix "Mr." to our names. There was no 
 social intercourse, we were outcasts and barbarians. In this 
 
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condition we returned from the graduation exercises and 
 before breaking ranks were drawn up in line while an order was 
 read announcing the cadet officers for the following year. 
 Being now third class men, or "yearlings," all of the cadet cor- 
 porals were selected from among us. The job of cadet cor- 
 poral may not sound like such a good one to mature middle 
 age, but to anyone who had been a plebe for a year it was an 
 office second in power and dignity to that of President alone. 
 Think of it — and all the cadet corporals had been selected 
 from among us! 
 
 Then ranks were broken and the older cadets rushed up 
 to us, shook our hands most heartily as though we were long- 
 lost friends that they had but just encountered, and what is 
 more they called us by name without the odious prefix "Mr." 
 
 Could any greater change ever come into one's life ? Not 
 unless it might be the sudden restoration of sight to one who 
 for years had been blind. Think of all our experiences since. 
 Think of all possible experiences that may come to us in the 
 future. None of these can ever compare to this sudden admis- 
 sion into social equality with the older cadets. 
 
 The newly made corporals rushed off to secure their 
 chevrons, and all of us prepared for the subsequent move to 
 camp, "Yearling Camp" as it was to be for us; and all of us, 
 deep in our hearts, were possessed with a fierce feeling of joy 
 at the sight of the candidates who were reporting to form the 
 Class of '87 and who would take up the odious designation 
 of Plebe that we had just cast aside. 
 
 Yearling camp followed much the same routine as plebe 
 camp, except that the hazing was done by us instead of to us. 
 Some little additional liberty was given to the yearlings, but 
 we by no means owned the camp, that privilege being reserved 
 for the first class men. Those who wished, and there were 
 many, could now attend the hops and see something of the senti- 
 mental side of cadet life, but to many others the boon of rest 
 and sleep was the greatest that could be offered. The drills 
 and the heat and the never ending guard duty caused most 
 
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of us to make the best of such periods of rest as could be 
 secured. In the shade of a tent on a hot afternoon we would 
 be seeking such rest as the flies would permit, when the cry 
 "Lemo" would create a scramble for the pail in which some 
 energetic member had mixed lemonade. 
 
 Towards the end of camp was the day the second class 
 men returned from furlough. They arrived at the landing by 
 boat and when they got to the top of the hill saw the first class 
 and our class stretched in a long line just outside of camp. 
 Quickly they formed a similar line and the two rushed together. 
 There were wild greetings, smashing of hats, kicking of grips, 
 and then all of us returned to camp together. 
 
 This is another old custom that was stopped towards the 
 end of our time. It may have been subversive of discipline, 
 but it surely promoted good fellowship, and the welcome the 
 second class got took the edge off their regrets at having to 
 return from furlough. 
 
 On returning to barracks our studies were resumed, this 
 time with Higher Mathematics, French, Drawing. Also 
 our first instruction in riding was started. This alternated 
 with drawing on the sleepy afternoons right after dinner. 
 There was quite a contrast between the two. 
 
 A few of us yearlings were fortunate enough to obtain a 
 few days' leave at Christmas-time. The successful ones had to 
 be without demerits, and not overdrawn on check book account 
 at the cadet commissary. The leave was only for three or 
 four days, but it was a foretaste of the joys that were soon to 
 come during our furlough. 
 
 The January examinations were passed, with a few more 
 losses of membership, and finally came the Hundredth Night 
 with its entertainment and the reading of the Howitzer, the 
 only cadet paper, which made its annual appearance at this 
 time. It was now but one hundred days to June, and June 
 meant the beginning of a two and a half months' furlough, our 
 first real freedom for two years. How long those hundred 
 days seemed in passing. Each night we would mark one off, 
 
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but the end seemed no nearer. Even now your historian 
 can hear the deep bass voice of "Toady" Kniskern exclaiming 
 in the stillness that followed taps: "My Lord, will furlough 
 never come?" 
 
 But time will pass, and furlough did come. It all seems 
 very, very long ago now, but the joys of our first real liberty 
 are still fresh in the memory. 
 
 June came with its graduation drills and exercises, after 
 which we donned our "cits" and were off, actually off. 
 
 Most of us went by boat to New York, where we had a 
 class dinner, and where we had toasts, real toasts, that were 
 drunk in something else besides water or lemonade. Our 
 liberty was new, we hardly knew what to do with it at first, 
 and the memory of our recent grind at our studies still hung 
 over us like a pall. We shook it off by toasting everything 
 we could think of — even drinking death and destruction to 
 dear old "Windy" Elliot's toast of "an oblique plane inter- 
 secting the ground line at an angle of forty-five degrees." 
 
 For the time we were free and we went our several 
 ways to our homes to be entertained and eulogized, and to 
 learn what wonderful fellows we were, and to get a glimmer, 
 just a glimmer, of the fact that there were other worlds 
 besides ours, and other people and other interests of which 
 West Point was but a thing apart. 
 
 Long as the time took in passing before June arrived, it 
 surely made up by fast speeding during our furlough. Never 
 before did time pass so quickly. It was over all too soon, 
 and we were once more climbing the hill from the landing. 
 The other cadets were lined up to welcome us, and we lined 
 up accordingly and rushed to meet them. The most hearty 
 greeting of all was for "Bobby" Williams, who had been given 
 the hardest punishment that a cadet could receive: poor 
 Bobby had been deprived of his furlough and compelled to 
 remain in camp all summer. 
 
 The greatest event of cadet life was now over. Once 
 again we donned the grey and settled back into the routine. 
 
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 We returned to barracks as second class men and took up our 
 new studies. 
 
 This year we had a mathematical course in Natural and 
 Experimental Philosophy, a course in Chemistry, Mineralogy 
 and Geology, a course in Tactics, and a continuation to com- 
 pletion of our course in Drawing, even to an attempted acquir- 
 ing of the art of painting. Our drills continued whenever 
 weather permitted and sometimes when it didn't. We rode 
 and w^e fenced, and during the winter months we danced. A 
 portion of the band was detailed every afternoon to the danc- 
 ing academy, and there by dancing with each other we acquired 
 the necessary skill for the next summer's hops. Occasionally 
 we listened to lectures on Philosophy or on Chemistry, but 
 most of the time it was the same old grind as before, inter- 
 spersed with efforts to bugle it and with forced recitations. 
 
 "Eddie" Jones soon acquired a great reputation as 
 chemist by frequent transfers to and from the lowest section 
 or "Immortals." The instructor of the Immortals was "Billy" 
 Patterson of the Artillery. Eddie cultivated a most irritating 
 manner towards Patterson, just enough to make him sore and 
 not enough to give him any advantage. Eddie would pretend 
 that he was trying to bugle it; Patterson would force him to 
 recite, and then Eddie would repeat verbatim the words of 
 the book to the uttermost detail. Once iii Mineralogy, Eddie 
 had a tray of specimens to determine what each one was. He 
 had succeeded with all but one, and with that one had been 
 trying every method that he knew, including heating it as 
 much as possible with the blowpipe. He gave every appear- 
 ance of trying to bugle it. The end of the hour was approach- 
 ing and Patterson said : 
 
 "Now, Mr. Jones, we will hear from you. Have you 
 found out what all those specimens are?" 
 
 "Yes, sir," said Eddie, "all but that one," pointing to 
 the one that he had just been heating with the blowpipe. 
 
 "Ah," said Patterson, "and what do you suppose that 
 one is?" picking it up and dropping it on the floor with an 
 exclamation of pain. 
 
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"That's hot, lieutenant," drawled Eddie after the con- 
 fusion was over. 
 
 Patterson was human; can we wonder that he was sore 
 at Eddie? 
 
 The fortunate ones had their short Christmas leave, and 
 all of us pegged away at our tasks until the end of the year. 
 With June and the graduating exercises we became first class 
 men and went into our first class camp. 
 
 We were now at the top of the heap. The senior cadet 
 officers, captains, lieutenants, quartermaster and adjutant were 
 selected from among us. We were given much greater liberty 
 in camp and during certain quite liberal hours could go in and 
 out of camp as we pleased. The cadet officers could even cross 
 the sentinels' posts at will — an inestimable privilege. 
 
 While we had plenty of drills, they were of a more inter- 
 esting kind. We drilled with the sea-coast gims, with the 
 light battery, with the ponton train, and as cavalry members 
 of the class being detailed to act as officers for these drills. 
 
 On the Fourth of July we had a celebration that included 
 the reading of the Declaration of Independence and an oration 
 by Patrick in his best style. To this ceremony we marched, 
 with all cadet officers in ranks and under the command of 
 members of the class who were privates, but had been selected 
 by us as officers for this special occasion. 
 
 Then we were allowed the use of the boats belonging 
 to the ponton outfit at times when we were not otherwise 
 engaged, and were permitted to row where we pleased on the 
 river. How pleasant some of those innocent little jaunts seem 
 to us as we look back upon them. We rowed and went in 
 swimming and got back in time for our other duties. There 
 was no case in which this privilege was abused. 
 
 It was during our first class camp that the death of 
 General Grant occurred. For the only time during our four 
 years at the Academy did the Battalion of Cadets leave the 
 post, and then it was simply to ferry over to Garrisons across 
 the river to reverse arms as the train bearing the body of the 
 
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 great commander passed us on its way to New York. It was 
 a link that connected us with the past, and small as was our 
 part, it is one that we will always remember. It will ever be a 
 source of regret to us that the Battalion was not permitted to 
 go to New York to take part in the official ceremonies that 
 accompanied the laying to rest of the Academy's greatest 
 graduate. 
 
 First class camp was finally over and barracks and studies 
 came again. This last year we had Engineering, both civil 
 and military; a course in Constitutional, International and 
 Military Law; a short course in Spanish; and last but not least 
 a short course in History. 
 
 During the previous year, the only real split that ever 
 happened in the class was started. A wide gulf opened 
 between members of the class of radically different views. 
 There was no hard feeling about it, no bitterness, no unkind 
 words, nothing that destroyed our real unity on all other 
 matters. This split became more pronounced during our first 
 class year. The class became divided into those who devoted 
 themselves to the entertainment of the fair sex at hops and 
 those who belonged to the unique organization known as the 
 Bachelors' Club. 
 
 This latter organization made a point of holding its meet- 
 ings only when a hop was actually in progress. This was 
 done to render it physically impossible for anyone to attend 
 both. The meeting of the Bachelors' Club took place in the 
 room of some member who could safely stand a few demerits 
 for "odor of tobacco smoke in quarters" or "grease spots 
 on floor." There were smoking and eating and swapping of 
 yarns, and just enough of mystery to challenge the attention 
 and pique the curiosity of the fair sex — at least that is what 
 the members of the club encouraged themselves to think. The 
 revenues of the club, which were needed for these entertain- 
 ments, were derived mainly from fines imposed on members 
 who had from time to time fallen from grace and shown 
 themselves in the hop room. 
 
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It is a curious commentary on all this that the members 
 of the Bachelors' Club were among the first of the class to 
 get married, and further that the three members of the class 
 who have today arrived at the dignified status of grand- 
 fathers were shining lights among the membership of the club. 
 
 Our first class year wore its slow way along. A few 
 fortunate ones obtained a short Christmas leave. The Hun- 
 dredth Night entertainment came with its Howitzer, Our 
 Howitzer, and graduation loomed close at hand. Mark Twain 
 visited the post at about this time and gave one of his readings. 
 Afterwards he visited us informally in the barracks and left 
 a most delightful impression. 
 
 It was at about this time too that, under the energetic 
 instigation of Wiley Bean, some of our friends secured the 
 passage by Congress of the law that permitted graduates for 
 whom there were no immediate vacancies to be appointed 
 additional second lieutenants. This saved a number of our 
 members from an enforced return to civil life upon graduat- 
 ing and has been of similar benefit to many succeeding classes. 
 It has been of great benefit to the service also, as it preserved 
 for the Army a number of graduates needed for its subse- 
 quent increase in size, and who would otherwise have become 
 unavailable. 
 
 At last with a rush came our final examinations, our 
 final drills and our graduation, where each of us in turn 
 stepped to the front and received his hard-earned diploma. 
 It was over. We were cadets no longer, and we soon had our 
 effects packed and had left the Academy for our long journey 
 into the outside world. 
 
 Looking back at the old days, it is the pleasant things 
 that stand out most prominently. The long, hard grind does 
 not now seem as severe as it was. It does seem, though, as if 
 we had always been marching. 
 
 At reveille we rose and rushed into ranks for a roll-call. 
 Then half an hour was given us to clean up our rooms and fall 
 in ranks again to march to breakfast. After breakfast we 
 
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 marched back to barracks, then we fell into ranks again 
 shortly afterwards and marched to recitation, then marched 
 back again, and then marched to another recitation and 
 marched back. Then we marched to dinner and after dinner 
 marched back again to barracks. Then we marched again 
 either to another recitation or to the riding hall, and after 
 that marched back once more. Then after a short interval 
 we fell into ranks again for drill, where we had continuous 
 marching for an hour. After this we marched once more to 
 and from parade, and after that we marched to supper and 
 marched back. They let us alone then for a while until taps, 
 when most of us marched in to bed, and, the force of habit 
 being strong, we occasionally marched in our sleep. 
 
 Of course, this was all to the good, it gave us the march- 
 ing habit as a sort of second nature. We became so used 
 to it that we could easily execute the most complicated maneu- 
 vers and yet all the time have our minds on something else — 
 on furlough or graduation. As marchers we became practi- 
 cally automatic, though it is stated that in all our marching 
 Chauncey Baker was never once in step. 
 
 We all remember our final ride to New York on the 
 boat and our class supper at Delmonico's. Can we not still 
 see "General" Walcutt in the balcony attempting to deliver 
 an oration, and succeeding in making most eloquent gestures 
 but not being able to make himself heard? Then we can 
 remember Wiley Bean's heartfelt eulogy of John Pershing 
 and Sam Reber's attempt to dance on the table while several 
 others were trying to tip it over. Also Joe Byron's unsuc- 
 cessful but very earnest effort to make one of the staid old 
 waiters laugh. And Bobby Hirst with Oscar Freeland's 
 hat about his ears, indignantly demanding that his diploma 
 and sword be returned to him from the check room. 
 
 And so it all fades away. It is finished and has become 
 a memory, and a pleasanter and pleasanter memory as time 
 continues to pass. It is not likely that any of us would wish 
 to go through it all again, but at that none of us regret having 
 
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had the training, for it is a great asset, one that we covet 
 for our children and our children's children, and the brotherly 
 friendships that we there made have become a part of our 
 lives. Nowhere else could they have been formed, and no 
 friendship in after-years can become stronger. 
 
 Peter Traub in his recollections of West Point in our 
 day and his comparison with it today has paid many well- 
 deserved tributes to the professors and instructors that we 
 knew, so much so that it seems unnecessary for them to be 
 mentioned here, but it would be a grave omission to neglect 
 to refer to oin* Superintendent, General Merritt, and our 
 Commandant, General Hasbrouck. They were both excel- 
 lent disciplinarians and stern and strict soldiers. Often as 
 cadets we chafed imder restraints that they put upon us, 
 but as we look back we can see more clearly that their motives 
 were always the right ones, that they had at heart not only 
 the good of the Academy and its magnificent traditions, but 
 the good of each and every one of us. They have both recently 
 passed to the great beyond and have carried with them not 
 only the respect but the love of every member of '86. 
 
 Nor would any record of our life at the Academy, 
 however brief, be complete without reference to "General" 
 Spurgin, who won his complimentary title from the cadets 
 by reason of his exceptional efficiency in conducting their 
 commissary. At a later time it was the privilege and pleasiu'e 
 of your historian to be with him when he received telegraphic 
 information of his appointment as Brigadier General and to 
 congratulate him most sincerely on his cadet title having really 
 come true. 
 
 Since graduation the history of the class has become the 
 history of its individual members. Some have left the service 
 and done well. Sixteen out of oia- total of seventy-seven have 
 passed to their reward. Those remaining in the service today 
 have all advanced to the grade of Major or higher. Their 
 records are such that we can well afford to be proud of each 
 
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 and all. They are fit standard-bearers of the honor of the 
 Academy, and they will be so to the end. 
 
 The years have passed since graduation, twenty-five of 
 them — a generation. This country of ours has grown and con- 
 tinues to grow. It has become a World Power and there is 
 more need than ever for wise counsels in its administration. 
 With the great increase in the Army the members of '86 are 
 beginning to take a more and more important part in its 
 management, and during the active years that yet remain to 
 us the spirit of '86, that same old spirit of unity, will make 
 itself increasingly felt. That it will be on the wise and right 
 side in all questions is undoubted. It would be impossible 
 to conceive otherwise. 
 
 It was meet that the class should get together to cele- 
 brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation. During the 
 years that have passed there have been as many minor gather- 
 ings as occasion offered. The historian remembers one in 
 New York City about 1888, and another at Chicago in 1893, 
 and one at Fort Des Moines in 1905, when a number of us 
 took our Thankgiving dinner with Shonnie ; in fact it is pretty 
 safe to state that there has usually been a celebration of some 
 sort whenever any two of the class have met, and that there 
 has always been one whenever three or more have come 
 together. 
 
 But our twenty-fifth anniversary reunion at West Point 
 was special in that it marked our entrance into the ranks of 
 "old" graduates. We may be the plebes among these old 
 graduates as yet, but we are among them. We have crossed 
 the divide and can no longer plead youth and inexperience 
 as an excuse for any shortcomings. 
 
 This twenty-fifth anniversary reunion, thanks to the 
 energetic work of Andrews and Peter Traub, was most suc- 
 cessful and enjoyable. Out of the sixty-one surviving mem- 
 bers of the class we mustered twenty, and this in spite 
 of the large number that could not possiblj^ come owing to 
 being in the Philippines, or in Texas with the Maneuver 
 
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Division, or by reason of duties that could not be neglected. 
 We were assigned to the nineteenth division of cadet barracks, 
 which in itself was something of a shock in view of the fact 
 that there had been but eight divisions altogether in our day. 
 We saw parade and guard mount and graduation, and best 
 of all we had a short informal meeting at the old library 
 with the sons of members of the class who were then cadets. 
 There were eight of them: Lewis, Nance, Rees, Newcomer, 
 McMahon, Byron, Elliott and McRae. 
 
 Then we had a banquet in one of the rooms in the new 
 officers' mess, and every one of the twenty present made a 
 speech and "reminisced." The Class of '91 was having a 
 twentieth anniversary reunion in an adjoining room and we 
 exchanged greetings with them frequently ; but when we actu- 
 ally broke up in the small hours of the morning, the Class of 
 '91 was nowhere to be found. The twenty members of '80 
 that were present were: Andrews, Chauncey Baker, Byron, 
 Carter, Claj^ton, Darrow, Hay, Hirst, Keene, Lasseigne, 
 Lewis, Lyman, Mclntyre, McMahon, Newcomer, Reber, 
 Riche, Stewart, Traub and Williams. The meeting was so 
 enjoyable that it was determined to hold a similar one at 
 West Point at the end of each five-year period hereafter. 
 
 We took all the flowers from the banquet table and next 
 morning arranged them lovingly on Teddy Godfrey's grave 
 where he sleeps his last sleep in the West Point Cemetery 
 amid its beautiful and heroic surroundings. 
 
 Looking back at our life at the Academy it seems that 
 the things that stand out most prominently in the memory 
 are all connected more or less with periods of liberty. Our 
 life there seems to have been very confining, and therefore 
 things of this kind, being out of the ordinary, made the deeper 
 impression. It has often seemed that there was too much 
 confinement and that more freedom, within reasonable limits, 
 would have been better. Of course, such a change would 
 bring disadvantages in other directions, and on the whole 
 might not make for good. The true test of the system is in 
 
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the character of men that it turns out. We must judge a 
 school by its graduates. With this as a standard, the West 
 Point of the old days must always be at the top. An inspec- 
 tion of the records of its graduates in Cullum's Register, both 
 in the military service and elsewhere, will show that the school 
 stands second to none, and that those whose lives have been 
 moulded by its great traditions have worthily borne its motto: 
 
 "DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY." 
 
 C. S. R. 
 
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West Point, 1886-1911 
 
 THE West Point of today is outwardly a vastly different 
 West Point from what it was when we graduated. Its 
 development has kept step with the changes wrought by 
 the progress of the country, and has been especially rapid since 
 the beginning of the second century of its existence. 
 
 Duty, Honor, Country, are the ideals of the teachings of 
 the Military Academy. In our time the paths that led to their 
 fulfillment were very straight and extremely narrow, but cor- 
 respondingly deep; but these ideals are none the less attained 
 at the present day by the fact that those same paths have 
 wherever possible been made wider, less rugged, and more 
 agreeable. This change is apparent everywhere, but nowhere 
 more strikingly than in the matter of athletics. In our day 
 we once in a while had a baseball nine whose efforts were jeered 
 at by the dozen or more classmates led by curiosity and pro- 
 spective fun to the "plain." The stride in advance to the pres- 
 ent-day games and recreations of the whole corps is immense 
 and exhilarating. Is there a graduate however old, nay, is 
 there any Army officer, whose pulse does not beat quicker as he 
 waits at the ticker in any old out-of-the-way station to hear the 
 result of the football games with Yale, Harvard, and princi- 
 pally with Annapolis ? Will anybody say that the sight of two 
 old professors dancing up and down the green in each other's 
 arms after a touchdown by the Army, isn't a humanizing influ- 
 ence that makes for esprit de corps? Not only in football, 
 but in basketball, hockey, baseball, fencing and track events 
 the change has been most beneficial and has had a most impor- 
 tant influence in maintaining the discipline of the corps. 
 
 What a difference between the days of Eddie Farrow in 
 the basement of the old Academic Building, trying to make us 
 turn somersaults, and the present training and instruction 
 
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 under the efficient Captain Koehler in one of the finest and best- 
 equipped gymnasiums in the world! What a difference be- 
 tween our fencing-master, Old Lorenz, chewing his snuff bean 
 and making us individually "Come i de God," and the present 
 Mr. Vauthier with his successful science that makes the cadets 
 the peers, yes, the superiors as a rule, of any amateur fencers in 
 this country! Xot that Old Lorenz could not personally have 
 kept Mr. Vauthier on the move, but that the former could not 
 teach others to do so, while the latter can and does. And this 
 matter of teaching is one of the main improvements at the 
 Academy. In our day we were given a lesson, and when we 
 recited the instructor tried to find out what we didn't know 
 and mark us on that, with the result that fifty per cent, of the 
 class fell by the wayside. But nowadays there is real instruc- 
 tion, in addition to the individual effort required of the cadet. 
 
 The old days of "bugling it" have pretty well disappeared. 
 "Running detail," while still in vogue and will continue to be 
 so as long as cadets are human, has in one department at least 
 become an impossibility. 
 
 "The Plain" is really West Point. It has changed con- 
 siderably in the last few years, but the changes have only begun. 
 The old cavalry plain has ceased to exist. Where for many 
 years the "charge" from the hotel hedge down to the library 
 used to make the hearts of even the Board of Visitors flutter, 
 all has been grassed over and converted into an athletic field. 
 
 The big rock in the shade of whose trees the "boms" (a 
 word unheard of today) used to sit and wait for the drill to end, 
 was blasted away years ago. 
 
 Execution Hollow, which Wesley Merritt partly filled in 
 by leveling the Wood Monument hill near the Ordnance La- 
 boratory, and which act called forth the sarcastic remark of the 
 post-mistress. Miss Berard, "Young Colonels and old land- 
 marks," is now being filled up entirely as a dump, and at its 
 north end becomes the site of a two-mortar battery. 
 
 The Cadet Encampment now occupies the whole of the 
 Fort Clinton site. Kosciusko's monument, however, still 
 
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 WEST POINT, 1886 
 
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 stands on the spot that marked the bastion at the east end. 
 The old Fort Clinton ditch where so many sentinels found a 
 temporary bed, Rotten Row, Fifth Avenue, are only memories 
 now. But thej^ still kick up a fuss once in a while, though 
 nevermore by rushing across No. 4 to welcome back the fur- 
 lough men. Last summer some instructors were detailed to 
 do night duty in camp and so help out the "tacs," — the cadets 
 promptly called them the "Cascaret tacs," because they worked 
 while the youngsters slept. 
 
 One place at West Point has not changed, — the Hotel. 
 Same old house, same glorious view up the river by day or 
 night, same waiters, same food, same single bathroom, same 
 complaints. Yet, if things are done as laid down, the days of 
 even this old caravansary are numbered, and ere long the 
 spirit of our old friend Craney in his high-crowned derby will 
 take its stand with the other ghosts of the past and contemplate 
 the site where once he held sway over the Saturday and Sunday 
 fate of many a departed cadet. 
 
 Professors' Row from the Old Barracks clear to the Super- 
 intendent's quarters has been encroached upon by the new 
 cadet barracks and the new gjminasium. If ever a new barrack 
 has to be built it will probably complete the conquest of 
 Professors' Row and the cadets will eventually have elbowed 
 the officers off the plain that they once considered their 
 own sacred ground. This process shows the relative impor- 
 tance the cadet has assumed at the Point. They are pretty 
 nearly it. They occupy the centre of the stage while the 
 officers are relegated to the wings. 
 
 The siege, mortar, and sea-coast batteries are in the same 
 location as formerly but are supplied with modern guns and 
 materiel, except for one or two old-timers at the water's edge. 
 Battery Schofield, of two six-inch disappearing guns, has been 
 erected below the siege and mortar batteries, while back on the 
 crest towers the Battle Monument, dedicated in 1897 to the 
 officers and men of the regular army that laid down their lives 
 during the Civil War. 
 
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The Phil Academy, where dear old Pete Michie used to 
 size us up before we even recited to him once and bring us out 
 where he decided we belonged, has gone the way of old Equa- 
 tion A. Can't you hear Ezra Fuller's: "What doos the work, 
 Mr. Potter, what doos the work?" As you sit in the northwest 
 corner of the present renovated library and get into the proper 
 contemplative mood you can fancy you hear Old Pete's laugh 
 as he starts the wheels of his solar system revolving through 
 space, and his efforts disprove the fact that "action and reaction 
 are equal, contrary, and simultaneous." 
 
 There have been few stronger characters at West Point 
 than Peter S. Michie. He brought the Academy before the 
 outside world and made his influence felt at home and abroad. 
 He was a staunch old Scotchman — we loved him, although the 
 joke was always on us^ — and we revere his memory. When our 
 summons comes we can feel sure that if "Pete" has anything to 
 say about it, he'll recommend for us at least a two to help us 
 through the pearly gates. 
 
 The old librarian that used to have time to burn and that 
 used to turn over every page of every book turned in by any 
 cadet and skin us for dog's-ears and pencil-marks, has long 
 since folded his tent and in his silent wake has stridden the 
 colossus who has made of the library a mighty intellectual 
 stimulus not only for the Military Academy, but for the Army. 
 
 By wise foresight the Old Cadet Chapel, where in brush 
 and pen we were taught that "Righteousness exalteth a nation, 
 but sin is a reproach to any people," has been carefully removed 
 to the beautiful and enlarged cemetery, re-erected in a repaired 
 condition, and greets the eye of the returning graduate as a 
 hallowed blessing. Old Chapel! Old Postle! Can we ever 
 forget our Saturday morning plebe lectures in the chapel on 
 Ethics? Bill Davis pacing up and down the aisle to keep 
 the peace and see that we made notes ? Postle leaning forward, 
 resting both hands, backing dow^n on the rail and asking wdth a 
 sickly smile: "Is Mr. Twiggs here?" Can we ever forget 
 Postle's return from France with the "piece of humanity that 
 preached till 12:23"? 
 
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WEST POINT, 1911 
 
Old Postle! Old Chapel! Teddy Godfrey! Poor little 
 Teddy, in his brave sleep near by, must surely murmur at times 
 the refrain : 
 
 "For he tried to find Teddy Godfree." 
 
 The new Cadet Chapel is really a cathedral on the hill 
 back of the Cadet Commissary, now called the Cadet Store. 
 There the cadet choir still pipes a piercing, halting song, and 
 the "femmes" as usual come to admire the grey setting and are 
 content to catch an occasional verse from the great book. 
 
 Ned McEnany is still doing business at the old stand and 
 has developed into a great football enthusiast. Mr. Ward is 
 quite feeble now, but still "tholemly th wears" the cadets as of 
 old, except that now it is done ceremoniously in the presence of 
 the lined-up corps of cadets under arms. 
 
 The reservation which early last century stopped at the 
 present old barracks and library has gradually advanced south 
 — to the old South Gate in our day, and finally to the first 
 houses of Highland Falls. In addition to acquiring the Kins- 
 ley and other property by purchase, the Government acquired 
 by gift from Mrs. Russell Sage and Miss Anna Warner, Con- 
 stitution Island for the U. S. M. A., forever. 
 
 Fort Put and all the old Revolutionary redoubts and bat- 
 tery emplacements have been restored or their sites marked, so 
 that it is now possible to walk in the hills and understand what 
 one is gazing at. This marking and partial restoration has also 
 been done around Flirtation Walk; and old connoisseurs will 
 be glad to know that the "walk" has not been touched by 
 improvement but left as nature made it. The only place where 
 the old spot has been marred is at Battery Knox, where the 
 bachelor officers' quarters stand athwart the parapet. Kosci- 
 usko's garden is unchanged, and Dade's monument (now called 
 by the cadets "The Early Bird") stands in front of Cullum 
 Hall, the fine memorial building that has taken the place of 
 No. 1, the Mess Hall, and Schofield Hall for cadets' and 
 officers' hops. Further to the south stands the Officers' Mess, 
 
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 the most sought after building on the Point, in any old kind of 
 weather, but principally in hot or cold. 
 
 No longer are the cavalry "boms" seen crossing the plain 
 to go to stables. The cavalry and artillery detachments 
 occupy barracks and stables that called forth Lord Kitchener's 
 enthusiastic comments. The new cavalry and field artillery 
 drill plain is nearly three times the size of the old one and is 
 located adjoining Highland Falls. No longer do the cadets 
 ride old plugs with bare razorbacks in the morning, and try to 
 kill those same animals in artillery harness in the afternoon. 
 No longer do they fire the ear-splitting brass Napoleons. 
 Everything in materiel and equipment, in stock and appliance 
 is a credit to the modern institution. 
 
 The riding hall where Jake Augur and Goober Brown 
 used to try and teach our Massachusetts classmates "to stick 
 on" while letting go of the pommel, is gone and in its place 
 stands now, half done, a riding hall that is to be second to none. 
 
 Lusk Dam and Reservoir, completed in 1895 and making 
 a beauty spot in the rugged hills back of the Observatory; the 
 forty-four sets of officers' quarters added between the old 
 South Gate and Highland Falls, and between Professors' Row 
 and the cemetery; the large power plant; the fine new roads 
 from the station to the South End, and from Highland Falls 
 to the old South Gate, these are some of the improvements in 
 comfort and utility. 
 
 The Academic Building where we used to fess regidarly 
 has been replaced by a noble edifice. But almost all the 
 old, familiar faces are gone. Sammy still nervously twitches 
 his fingers diu'ing his lectures as he answers with a weary 
 smile the question of some bonehead. But the faithful Slicter 
 no longer moves the tubes in the wa}^ of the professor for 
 fear an experiment will be forgotten — things still go off and 
 explosions take place and are explained after the event with 
 — "Oh, I meant to call your attention to the flask." Slicter 
 has, however, lived through it all and always has a cheery salu- 
 tation for us middle-aged youngsters who happen along while 
 
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he wipes the engineering section-room boards. "If I put this 
 drop of priissic acid on my tongue what will happen?" says 
 Sammy. Don't we all remember the words of the text as 
 sleepy Jones, E. N., answers: " 'Twould kill a dog, sir." 
 
 Can we ever forget Corp Brooks and Laddy-da as the 
 latter lifted up a specimen of iron "pie-rites" that the former 
 had just heated at the blowpipe? Or of Wyatt's "Don't cher 
 tasteit, Mr. Procter?" 
 
 Life has been spared to us a quarter of a century, but "on 
 this we still insist, that the time we spent in drawing, it always 
 will be missed." No longer does the Noizet front call forth 
 groans and lamentations from the flyspecks — the ravelin has 
 been given "h — 1" for good; but we doubt not that the mental 
 exercise of getting us safely through enabled Goethals to build 
 the Panama Canal assisted by the "newborn joy" of our own 
 days. 
 
 The Department of Drawing must be spoken of now as 
 that of "military graphics and topographical ethics," or words 
 to that effect. The ghost of Shady Read still strolls through 
 our dreams, stops, taps a shoulder, and whispers: "Come 
 along, I'll wash it out." 
 
 Poppy Curtis with his law book filled with cases and cita- 
 tions is no longer here to help the cadets "while away a half 
 hour while they must hustle through the rest of the lesson." 
 Comly and Bruff have made way for other but no better men, — 
 for better men do not exist. 
 
 Poppy Andrews was a fine soldier, scholar, and gentle- 
 man, but when he made us bone "Quiso dar algunos pasos" in 
 our first Spanish lesson he showed too much confidence in our 
 ability as linguists. Possibly this confidence was engendered 
 by the fine progress we have made under Old Death Williams' 
 and Scriven's fine Parisian interpretation of Keetel's Grammar 
 and Reader, but I rather think it must have been confidence 
 inspired by the mathematical training that Professor Bass had 
 given us in Davies' Legendre when he used to come into the 
 section-room and soothe some of us into unconsciousness by the 
 
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 mere rolling back and forth of that ivory-headed pencil. I 
 note that Bass is the only man whom quite naturally I address 
 as Professor. We deemed him cold-blooded as cadets, and he 
 was; but when you got through his hands safe and sound it was 
 about equivalent to giving you the sheepskin. I got to know 
 him well in after-life and I found him a warm-hearted, charm- 
 ing, level-headed gentleman. The Military Academy lost one 
 of the ablest men it has ever had when Edgar W. Bass with- 
 drew from its active service. May he live long and prosper, 
 and be assured that he has the respect and esteem of each and 
 every member of the Class of '86 that survived the ordeal of 
 fire he subjected us to. 
 
 Our innocent pleasures of a walk to the old South Gate 
 and to the cemetery, with a spring stroll to Battery Knox 
 for the purpose of easing our overcharged hearts and minds, 
 would hardly please the sophisticated youth of the present cen- 
 tury — they must have excitement all the time, winter and sum- 
 mer. Imagine how hilarious to them would have seemed the 
 one trip we took away from West Point in August, 1885, on 
 the ferryboat to Garrison to present arms as the remains of 
 General Grant were slowly borne by train through the station. 
 Imagine this as an occasion to be remembered by kids who take 
 yearly trips to Gettysburg, to Watervliet, to Sandy Hook, to 
 the Metropolitan, to the Navy game at Philadelphia, to Horse 
 Shows, Tournaments, etc., etc. Do they appreciate their bless- 
 ings? Well, we're old fogies and they don't take us seriously. 
 
 The Mess Hall where Old Spurg did such wonders to- 
 wards appeasing our appetites with good dishes as well as with 
 Sammy, Whale and Hand apples, has been enlarged, improved 
 and kept up with the times by his successors ; so that, although 
 it may be the scene of a "silence" now and then, there are as 
 few kicks from finicky cadets as we gave it during our four 
 years' grind. 
 
 One misses the cheering slope of green to the east where 
 stood Custer's monument with the Little Big Horn Yellow- 
 hair Chief standing at bay with drawn sabre and pistol. Where 
 
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once was the greensward and path that marked our cadet limits, 
 towards the station there now stands probably the most impos- 
 ing of the new buildings, the Administration or Headquarters. 
 Immediately adjoining it to the north there stands now vacant 
 and silent what was to us for four long years the embodi- 
 ment of the U. S. M. A., the place where ruled from his iron 
 throne the mighty Wesley. There comes once again dear old 
 Wiley Bean leaving "his presence" on the run, with flushed face 
 and drooping head; old Windy Elliot too, and even Simon 
 Slick, are flabbergasted. Can't you hear the "pain and morti- 
 fication" with which he soaked us to light prison, the area, or 
 con, showing that it hurt him more than it did us even though 
 "not in the same place"? Can't you hear the growl of anguish 
 as some of the boys are caught with Mr. Kinsley's green goods, 
 or as some long stray shot by an unskilled stone-thrower breaks 
 a window and brings down deep damnation as a destroyer of 
 government property? 
 
 Old Wesley! Yes, dear old Wesley! Simplicity, stern- 
 ness, severity marked our four years with you, but you earned 
 in addition to our fear our respect, our admiration; and now 
 when you are but a memory, you have our love! You used a 
 hard hand in forming our characters! But when we reflect 
 that we owe everything that we can call success to the discipline 
 and teachings of our Alma Mater and failure to the neglect to 
 apply those teachings, then, Wesley Merritt, we give you, our 
 peerless soldier superintendent, your just reward. This win- 
 ter, at night, by the light of lanterns in the frozen, snow-covered 
 ground we laid him to rest in the hills where he too was formed, 
 and for great deeds. "O eloquent, just and mighty Death," 
 peace to the ashes of this dashing leader of men! 
 
 Within a few days after Merritt's burial our beloved Com- 
 mandant, Harry Hasbrouck, the very best type of the real 
 soldier and gentleman, followed him to the grave. How often 
 have we fondly watched him, with his slight limp and the old- 
 time salute as he brought his right hand opposite the right 
 shoulder before dropping it to the side. We have loved the 
 
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 red stripe ever since, for he was the embodiment of all it should 
 be. With his bushy brows and kindly heart, how often by his 
 advice and admonition did he save us from having to beard the 
 lion in his den? Only he could tell. 
 
 Wesley and the Com made a brace of soldiers and disci- 
 plinarians hard to equal and never to beat. 
 
 General Hasbrouck, after retirement, lived in Newburgh 
 and frequently came to West Point. He was always what he 
 had been, and what he was when he became endeared to us. 
 Would to heaven such men could be spared to the Army for- 
 ever to serve as an inspiration to the youngsters and mould 
 their esjmt de corjjs. He was the Bayard of the American 
 Army : 
 
 ''His bones are dust, 
 His good sword rust; 
 His soul is with the saints, we trust." 
 
 We cannot forget the Ordnance Metcalfe, those princes 
 amongst men, Ned Casey and Oscar J. Brown, nor Homer the 
 "Coprolite." If thoughts can wing their flights to their pres- 
 ent abode, they know that they have left memories behind 
 them, memories far more touching than cold obituaries have 
 told. 
 
 But a truce to these sad thoughts. I hear the West Point 
 Band. The Corps is on parade. They stretch out in six com- 
 panies and almost twice the strength of our day. They do not 
 know the delights of the "carry arms" at review, nor the youth- 
 ful effect of the "turn-over" collar and the jaunty French cap 
 we used to sport. Otherwise they are the same young, manly 
 fellows. I know them well. I have had a hand in teaching 
 every mother's son for years and I am proud of it. Some 
 ' names amongst them have a very familiar ring — sons of class- 
 mates and of other Army officers. Knowing them as I do, I 
 take off my hat to them as they swing by with the old cadet 
 snap, feeling sure that the corps of cadets continues to maintain 
 its high standard of duty and honor, and will give a satisfactory 
 
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return to the country, not only in time of trial, but in time of 
 peace as well, for the fostering care lavished upon it by a 
 grateful and generous people. 
 
 P. E. T. 
 West Point, N. Y., May, 1911. 
 
 41 
 
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Roll of the 
 
 Glass of '86, U. S. M. A. 
 
 Alphabetically Arranged 
 
l£H^?;^3!e%^f'^£&^'^£;r<tS«!i~S£gH»^;S!K;:':SS^'H^^ 
 
Resigned, 1893. Residence, 1633 Locust Street; office, 
 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Volun- 
 teers, May to August, 1898; Acting Inspector General on 
 staff of Major General J. H. Wilson, commanding 1st Divi- 
 sion, 1st Arnw Corps, Camp Geo. H. Thomas, Tennessee. 
 
 National Guard: Engineer, with rank of Major, 1st 
 Brigade Staff, N. G. N. Y., November, 1893, to February, 
 1898; Major, commanding Squadron "A," N. G. N. Y., 
 March, 1898, to January, 1899; Adjutant General, State of 
 New York, and Chief of Staff to Governor Roosevelt, with 
 rank of Brigadier General, January, 1899, to January, 1900, 
 when resigned. 
 
 Special Duty: Aide-de-Camp to Major General John 
 M. Schofield, commanding the Army, from 1889 to 1892. 
 
 Civil I^ife: Lawyer; Police Commissioner, New York 
 City, 1895 to 1898; Vice-President and Director of the Gen- 
 eral Asphalt Company, the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, 
 the Uintah Railway Company, and other corporations. 
 
 Remarks: Graduated Law School, Columbian Univer- 
 sity, Washington, D. C, 1891, with degree LL.B., and from 
 New York Law School, New York City, 1892, with degree 
 LL.B.; Prize Tutor, New York Law School, 1892-94. 
 
 Personal History: Born April 4, 1864, Massena, New 
 York. Married Mary C. Schofield, September 27, 1888, at 
 Governors Island, New York. Children: Schofield Andrews, 
 born August 7, 1889, Governors Island, New York (St. 
 Paul's School, 1906; Harvard, 1910; now law student at Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania) ; DeLano Andrews, born March 4, 
 1894, New York City (St. Paul's School, 1911; to enter Har- 
 vard ) . 
 
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t£2S.=;3KSffi««^.S^1;iSfe3i^ 
 
Lieutenant Colonel and Deputy Quartermaster General. 
 Station: Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia. 
 
 Special Duty: School of Application for Infantry 
 and Cavalry, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, August, 1887, to 
 June, 1889; Instructor in Engineering at School, September, 
 1889, to September, 1890; Aide-de-Camp and Acting Engi- 
 neering Officer to General A. McD. McCook, Los Angeles, 
 California, and Denver, Colorado, at Headquarters, Depart- 
 ments of Arizona and Colorado, September, 1890, to April, 
 189.5; Chief Quartermaster to General Lawton, General Lee, 
 and General Arnold, 7th Army Corps, 2nd Division, May- 
 November, 1898, at Jacksonville and Savannah; Depot Quar- 
 termaster at Havana, November, 1898, to August, 1900; 
 Chief Quartermaster and Depot Quartermaster, Division and 
 Department of Cuba, August, 1900, to May, 1902; in office 
 of the Quartermaster General, Washington, D. C, May, 1902, 
 to September, 1906; serving as Chief Quartermaster, Maneu- 
 ver Division, under General John C. Bates, at Fort Riley, 
 1902-03; Chief Quartermaster, Army of Pacification, Cuba, 
 October, 1906, to April, 1909; Depot Quartermaster, Schuyl- 
 kill Arsenal, Philadelphia, April, 1909, to present date. 
 
 Volunteer Service: With highest brevet rank beyond 
 lineal commission. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, May 12, 
 1898; Major, Quartermaster, January 7, 1899; honorablj^ dis- 
 charged June 30, 1901. 
 
 Personal History: Born August 26, 1860, at Lancas- 
 ter, Ohio. Married June 19, 1889, at Fort Leavenworth, 
 Kansas, to Lucy McCook. 
 
 47 
 
iam& J^mrtt Mnktr, Jr. 
 
 Major, 11th Infantry. Station: Fort D. A. Russell, 
 Wyoming. 
 
 War and Field Service: Sioux outbreak, 1891; Span- 
 ish-American War, Santiago expedition and El Caney combat ; 
 Philippine insurrection — ^Manila campaign of the spring of 
 1899, engagements at Cainta and Talisay, and operations 
 against the Philippine guerrillas and ladrones from 1902 to 
 1905, inclusive. 
 
 Special Duty: Illinois National Guard, 1893-96; Cash- 
 ier and Quartermaster, Philippine Customs Service, July, 
 
 1889, to August, 1901 ; Assistant Chief, Philippine Constabu- 
 lary, August, 1901, to October, 1906. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 25, 1865, at Cairo, Illi- 
 nois. Married Louise E. Casey, Springfield, Illinois, Janu- 
 ary 15, 1889. Children: Jewett Casey Baker, born March 10, 
 
 1890, Fort Yates, North Dakota; Matilda Gertrude Baker, 
 born Manila, Philippine Islands, March 28, 1900. 
 
 •I.) 
 
■K;!e'<^ili '3B$:sC''ii>4«l 
 
Major, 7th Infantry. Station: Fort William McKinley, 
 Philippine Islands. 
 
 War and Field Service: Sioux Indian campaign, 
 South Dakota, 1890-91; Philippine insurrection, 1899 — battles 
 of Zapote River, June 13, 1899, San Fernando, August 9, 
 1899, Angeles, August 16, 1899, and various minor engage- 
 ments in and around San Fernando and Angeles. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major, 7th Illinois Infantry, July 
 8 to October 20, 1898; Thoroughfare, Virginia, and Middle- 
 town, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Special Duty: In charge of Apache prisoners of war 
 at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, and Fort Sill, Okla- 
 homa, 1894-9.5; Quartermaster and Commissar}^, 12th Infan- 
 try; Quartermaster and Commissary, loth Infantry; Quarter- 
 master by detail, 31st Infantry, October, 1908. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 13, 1862, Orange, 
 Schuyler County, New York. Married Cora Hendrick, 
 Hornby, New York, June 30, 1886. Children: Cora Reta 
 Ballon, born January 10, 1888, San Antonio, Texas (Ran- 
 dolph-Macon Women's College) ; Julia Bertha Ballon, born 
 February 14, 1891, Hornby, New York (Randolph-Macon 
 Women's College) ; Senn Ballon, born March 28, 1899, 
 Hornby, New York; Alice Mildred Ballon, born January 22, 
 1903, El Paso, Texas. 
 
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iialurrtt l|tU larnitm 
 
 INIajor of Cavalry. Station: Camp McGrath, Philip- 
 pine Islands. 
 
 War and Field Service: Campaign of Santiago, 1898. 
 Wounded at San Juan Hill, July 2, 1898. 
 
 Special Duty: Adjutant, 10th Cavalry, 189.5-99; 
 Quartermaster, 8th Cavalry, 1903-06; Aide-de-Camp to Major 
 General J. F. Weston, 1906-09; Adjutant, 8th Cavalry, July 
 1, 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born September 3, 1863, Syracuse, 
 New York. Married ^Martha S. ^I. Maginness, October 24, 
 1889, New Albany, Indiana. Children: Frances Maginness 
 Barnum, born July 25, 1890, Fort Clark, Texas; married to 
 1st Lieutenant Frank E. Davis, 7th Cavalry, at Camp ^NIc- 
 Grath, Philippine Islands, on March 8, 1911. Malvern Hill 
 Barnum, Jr., born May 25, 1905, at Fort McKinley, Philip- 
 pine Islands. 
 
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Milliam If^^bn^r l^an 
 
 Major, Subsistence Department, U. S. A. 
 
 Died March 17, 1904; Aged 44. 
 
 Bean entered the Academy with the class in June, 1882, 
 and soon gave evidence of the qualities which later on made 
 him one of its prominent men. Full of energy and push, and 
 at the same time unselfish and generous to a degree, he was 
 always the man to whom the class tin*ned when something 
 important had to be done. It was by his efforts that the bill 
 authorizing the appointment of additional second lieutenants 
 was passed, and many an officer now in the Army owes his 
 commission to Bean's devoted work. On graduation he was 
 assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, and at the conclusion of his leave 
 he joined that regiment at the Presidio. Here he served three 
 happy years and then was sent East for special duty with the 
 National Guard of Pennsylvania. He went to San Carlos, 
 Arizona, early in 1891, and later took command of the Apache 
 Scouts at Fort Apache. While he was on this duty, the 
 writer, together with Chaimcey Baker, had occasion to visit 
 that post; and we shall never forget the delight of Bean, 
 caused by the fact that we were followed everywhere in the 
 garrison by an Apache Indian in full regalia — detailed for 
 that particular job by Bean. Bean had named the Indian 
 "Sukey Mott," because, as he well said, that name was too 
 good to be lost. The two following years he spent in Arizona, 
 at one time commanding the escort to the Boundary Commis- 
 sion, and also engaged in the pursuit of the renegade Apache, 
 "The Kid." He was promoted 1st Lieutenant, 8th Cavalry, 
 October 5, 1892, and was transferred to his old regiment 
 December 5th of the same year. The four years from 1894 
 
 54 
 
to 1898 he spent in garrison duty at Fort Wingate, X. M. 
 On the outbreak of the war he accompanied his regiment to 
 Tampa, and spent the next ten months in the various camps 
 in the South. He served as Regimental Quartermaster from 
 June 18, 1898, to March 15, 1899, and as Regimental Commis- 
 sar}^ from April 15, 1899, until July 31st of the same year. 
 
 While in Cuba with his regiment he was appointed a cap- 
 tain in the Subsistence Department, July 31, 1899. After a 
 short tour in Washington he joined the China Expedition and 
 served as Depot Commissary at Tongku, China, from Septem- 
 ber 13, 1900, to November 7th of the same year. He returned 
 to the United States in December and during the next two 
 years served as Purchasing Commissary at various times at 
 Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. From the last named 
 place he went to Omaha as Chief Commissary, Department 
 of the Missouri, having been promoted to the grade of major 
 in July, 1901. In March, 1904, he received orders for duty 
 in the Philippines, and on the day of his departure, March 
 17th, he died from a self-inflicted wound. 
 
 No one who knew Bean well will believe that he was in 
 his right mind when he committed this act. For a long while 
 after the sudden death of his father Bean was subject to fits 
 of acute melancholia, and there is no doubt that a recurrence 
 of one of these attacks ended his life. 
 
 Peace to his ashes! A loyal friend, a devoted husband, 
 an efficient officer, his friends will not soon forget him. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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ICumn CIrattt l^rrg 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Field Artillery, unassigned. Sta- 
 tion : Camp INIaneuver Division, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 War and Field Service: Porto Rican campaign, 
 action near Yanco, July 26, 1898. Philippine Islands, 1900- 
 1901, various small affairs. 
 
 Volunteer Sp:rvice: Captain, A. A. G. Volunteers, 
 May, 1898, to JNIay, 1899. Expedition to Porto Rico. 
 
 Personal History: Born November 29, 1863, Corning, 
 New York. Married Emily JNIinier, October 28, 1886, 
 Elmira, New York. Children : Marilla Stanton Berry, born 
 June 2, 1887, Fort Preble, Maine; Olive Elizabeth Berry, 
 born January 5, 1889, Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Emily 
 Minier Berry, born April 12, 1891, Fort INIcHenry, Maryland; 
 Lucien S. S. Berry, born February 14, 1893, West Point, 
 New York; Lucy Berry, born December 4, 1895, West Point, 
 New York; Helen Berry, born January 6, 1897, Fort Mc- 
 Henry, Maryland. Married children: Marilla Stanton Berry; 
 married Lieutenant T. N. Brown, 27th Infantry, December 21, 
 1907, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Residence, Monterey, 
 California. 
 
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HB 
 
iEiuiarJj Olranatnn Irooka 
 
 No photograph obtainable 
 
 Resigned May 2, 1905. Address and civil history un- 
 known. The following data are taken from Cullum's Register: 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 8th Cavalry, July 1, 1886. 
 
 Served: on frontier duty at San Antonio, Texas, Sep- 
 tember 30, 1886, to October 21, 1887; Fort Davis, Texas, to 
 May 17, 1888; and on the march to and at Fort Yates, North 
 Dakota, to — . 
 
 Military History: Served: At Fort Yates, North 
 Dakota (in the field in South Dakota, in campaign against 
 hostile Sioux Indians, December 14, 1890, to January 30, 
 1891), to November 21, 1891; Professor of Military Science 
 and Tactics at the Delaware College, Newark, Delaware, 
 December 3, 1891, to January 27, 1893, and at Girard Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1893. First 
 Lieutenant of Cavalry, 6th Cavahy, March 8, 1893, to Decem- 
 ber 6, 1895; on leave to January 17, 1896; garrison duty at 
 Fort Myer, Virginia, to April 19, 1898; with regiment at 
 Camp Thomas, Georgia, and at Tampa, Florida (Regimental 
 Adjutant, June 1 to August 6, 1898), to June 14, 1898; in 
 the campaign against Santiago and in Cuba to August, 1898, 
 being engaged in the battle of San Juan, July 1-3, and in the 
 campaign against Santiago, Cuba, to July 17, 1898. 
 
 Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. Volun- 
 teers, September 17, 1898; on duty as Assistant Adjutant 
 General, U. S. troops, Santiago, Cuba, August 7 to October 
 2, 1898; on duty as Assistant Engineer, and various other 
 local duties, at Santiago, Cuba, to March 27, 1899; on sick 
 leave to May 24, 1899; Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General 
 Wood, U. S. Volunteers, May 1, 1899; honorably discharged 
 from Volunteer service May 12, 1899; Major, 46th U. S. 
 Volunteer Infantry, August 17, 1899 (declined), to April 20, 
 1900, being also Assistant Adjutant General, Department 
 of Santiago, Cuba, September 28 to December 30, 1899; 
 Auditor of the Island of Cuba, April 20, 1900, to — . 
 
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Joa^pl^ OIIjarbH Ijjron 
 
 Address : Hagerstown, Maryland. Resigned from service 
 December 15, 1902. 
 
 War and Field Service : Pine Ridge campaign, April, 
 1890, to March, 1891. Aide on staff of General Schwan during 
 Porto Rican campaign. Wounded in action at Mayaguez, 
 Porto Rico, September 10, 1898. On transport service 
 December, 1898, to June, 1899. In Philippines December, 
 1899, to April, 1900; in China April, 1900, to December, 1901. 
 Stations: Hong Kong, Taku, Tientsin, Pekin. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major, Quartermaster, in China 
 during China Relief Expedition, 1900. 
 
 Civil Life: Resigned December 15, 1902, while on duty 
 at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia. Entered leather business 
 at Williamsport, Maryland. Member of firm W. D. B3a'on & 
 Sons. 
 
 Personal History : Born November 2, 1860, at Buffalo, 
 New York. Married Jennie F. Wilson, Fort Meade, South 
 Dakota, October 8, 1889. Children: Elsie Byron, born Octo- 
 ber 31, 1890, Fort Meade, South Dakota; Joseph W. Byron, 
 born June 3, 1892, Fort Meade, South Dakota (U. S. JNIilitary 
 Academy) ; William D. Byron, born June 15, 1896, Danville, 
 Virginia (now attending Phillips Exeter Academy) ; David 
 W. Byron, born October 17, 1906, Hagerstown, Maryland. 
 
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HtUtam iJ^amn ©amp 
 
 Late 2ni) Lieutenant, 17th U. S. Infantry. 
 Died at Napa, California, December 12, 1907; Aged 44. 
 
 As the writer was beginning this obituary of dear old 
 "Bill File," the mail brought in the collection of songs that 
 were evolved from the lyric geniuses of '86 during first class 
 camp and the long winter months of the homestretch. If any- 
 thing were needed to bring back the memoiy of this quaint and 
 many-sided character, surely the little poem, "The Last Ban- 
 quette," would do it. From the dedication to his old friend and 
 roommate Chauncey, to the visions of the graduation dinner 
 in the end, we can recall the memory of the strange and lova- 
 ble character that, as a first classman, chose a cold and cheerless 
 cockloft room "for the sake of the view" and who never let an 
 opportunity slip to do a kindly act for a classmate. 
 
 Camp was the son of the Rev. C. W. Camp, D.D., and 
 was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He received his early 
 education at the Union School and Carroll College, and later 
 entered the State University at Madison. He took the com- 
 petitive examination for a cadetship at West Point and entered 
 the Academy in June, 1882. During the four years he passed 
 on the Hudson he was always a noted character in the Corps — 
 forever finding some new and unheard-of thing to do, and at 
 the same time keeping the respect and affection of his class- 
 mates to a remarkable degree. On graduation he was assigned 
 to the 17th Infantry and joined in the following fall at Fort 
 Bridger, Wyoming. Here he passed the next three years and 
 here he was married in 1888 to Roberta Hamilton, the young- 
 est daughter of the late Judge William Carter. In the follow- 
 
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ing year Camp resigned and settled on a fruit ranch near 
 Napa, California. 
 
 Here he planned to make scientific viticulture his life 
 work; but another whim must have seized him, for when next 
 his classmates heard of him it was as an employe of the railway 
 mail service. He spent ten j^ears at this work, probably find- 
 ing in it the change of scene and surroundings apparently 
 so necessary to his restless spirit. He resigned in 1905 and 
 went back to the ranch, and then began a strange life of long 
 trips on foot, accompanied by his wife, over the State of 
 California, interspersed with periods of manual labor under- 
 taken, not from necessit}^ but from a keen desire to learn the 
 inner life of the laborers in some particular trade. While 
 engaged in this kind of work at the Mare Island Xavy Yard, 
 he returned one day in December, 1907, to his little shack on 
 the Napa ranch, complaining of being ill. It was difficult to 
 get a doctor, and when the latter arrived the ptomaine poison- 
 ing had done its work. Alone with his loving wife, on Decem- 
 ber 12, 1907, poor old Bill File passed away. It was a sad 
 "last banquet" for him and a dreary ending to a promising 
 career; but who of us can say that he himself was not glad to 
 find at least rest from "life's fitful fever"? 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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■™^H!w;;5»«:»^ff.-^'C?..5fcr5Swas*S5««es»m 
 
Major of Cavalry, General Staff Corps. Station: 
 Washington, D. C, War Department. House address: 
 1836 Calvert Street. 
 
 War and Field Service: In the field in Indian Terri- 
 tory, 1886-87; Garza campaign, Mexican border, 1891-93; 
 Mindanao campaigns, 1903-05. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Captain of Porto Rico regiment 
 of infantry, March 1, 1900, to February 2, 1901. 
 
 Special Duty: College duty, Norwich University, 
 Northfield, Vermont, 1890-91; recruiting service, 1893-94-99; 
 muster-out of Volunteers, 1898-99; member of War Depart- 
 ment General Staff since June 20, 1909. 
 
 Personal History: Born April 12, 1863, St. Francois 
 County, Missouri. Married Flora Deshler King, daughter 
 of late Captain Albert D. King, 3rd Cavalry, October 6, 1891, 
 Lancaster, Ohio. Children: Clara Mcllvaine Carter, born 
 1892, died 1905; Betty Landon Carter, born 1902; Mary Allan 
 Carter, born 1906. 
 
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■ffia- j^w wa»adi •fi!Sfci!«fei:*S!S5a£S«S?C3am-t«E^^ 
 
l^rlram ©rarg Ollagtnn 
 
 Major, Quartermaster Department. Station: West Point. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Mustered in U. S. service as Cap- 
 tain, Troop C, Xew York Volunteers; May 20, 1898; served 
 through the Porto Rican campaign, taking part in action at 
 Coamo, August 9, and in skirmishes in Aidonito Pass, August 
 9 to 12, 1898. 
 
 National Guard: 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 13th 
 Regiment National Guard, New York; captain same regiment, 
 iSlay 12, 1890, to July 17, 1893; jNIajor and Engineer, 2nd Bri- 
 gade, to December 16, 1895 — on this latter date elected Cap- 
 tain to Troop C, which he had organized in Brooklyn and 
 which was that day mustered into state service; Colonel, 14th 
 Regiment National Guard, New York, June, 1899, to April 
 17, 1901. 
 
 Special Duty: Arrived Philippines, June, 1901, as 
 Transport Quartermaster, U. S. transport "Lawton"; con- 
 tinued in inter-island transport service about nine months. 
 During that time visited over fifty different points in the 
 islands, landing troops and supplies in Samar during the Luk- 
 ban troubles, stopping at various other parts where operations 
 were more or less active. 
 
 Civil Life: Resigned April 30, 1888. Re-entered 
 service April 17, 1901. In business in Brooklyn, New York, 
 during that time. Served as member of Fifty-sixth L^. S. Con- 
 gress from Fourth New York District, 1899-1901. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 19, 1862, at Clayton, 
 Alabama. First married Louise jNI. Brasher, of Brooklyn, 
 New York, June 12, 1887. Second wife, Mary D. Watson, 
 of New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2, 1907. Children: 
 William Brasher Clayton, born April 7, 1888; Bertram Tracy 
 Clayton, Jr., born June 25, 1895 (Riverside Military Acad- 
 emy, Gainesville, Georgia). Married children: William B. 
 Clayton; married Claude Hill McKenzie, November 12, 1910, 
 at New York City. 
 
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■e3»^^3^^^^i2fia3i^^^Ei5^in^i#t!^^si^£igi^iit^ 
 
Strliarb €latbortt^ Olroxton 
 
 Major, 20th Infantry. Station: Cuartel de Espana, 
 Manila, Philippine Islands, but expects to retire on thirty 
 years' service and go to M^ork September 1, 1912. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Lieutenant Colonel commanding 
 6th Virginia Volunteers (Negro infantry, two battalions), 
 July 30, 1898, to February 19, 1899. 
 
 War and Field Service: Second Sulu expedition 
 under General Wood, 1903. (Killed a few Moros.) 
 
 Personal History: Born January 24, 1864, at Tappa- 
 hannock, Virginia. Married Mrs. C. deC. Kittson, daughter 
 of General Constant Williams, U. S. Army, now retired, Feb- 
 ruaiy 19, 1902, at New York. Children: Two stepchildren, 
 Norman W. and Lucile Kittson. 
 
 69 
 
«BSB'»«KdS!^rSKSn;d{4cj:*i«f=S£S?S^^ 
 
Malt^r Ntrtjnlas Paw iarrom 
 
 Address: St. Augustine, Florida. 
 
 National Guard: Served in Ohio National Guard as 
 Captain of Light Battery, Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, 
 and Colonel of Artillery from December 21, 1891, to April 20, 
 1897. Brigadier General and Chief of Lngineers on staff of 
 Governor Xash of Ohio, 1900-04. 
 
 War and Field Service : Field service with troops dur- 
 ing a mining strike in Ohio during 1894. 
 
 Civil Life: Resigned October 26, 1891. In realty 
 business and real estate agent, Columbus, Ohio, for fifteen 
 years ; Trustee, Ohio Medical Universit}" ; Director, Park Loan 
 and Savings Company; Trustee, W. A. Neil Estate, etc. In 
 no active business at this time, Jaimary 1, 1911, except as 
 trustee or administrator of several estates. 
 
 Personal History: Born February 18, 1863, at 
 Rochester, New York. Married Mary Neil, at Columbus, 
 Ohio, September 23, 1890. 
 
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l6L3at»«3fiSgr.^!g?2tES?5«WKS^^ 
 
Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Commissary General. Sta- 
 tion: St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 War and Field Service : Chief Commissary, 2nd Divi- 
 sion, 8th Corps, November, 1899, to March, 1900; Chief Com- 
 missary, General J. H. Smith's Brigade, from the beginning 
 of the campaign to the surrender. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Colonel, Commissary of Subsist- 
 ence (Act of July 7, 1898), July, 1898, to March, 1899; 
 Major, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, April 
 18, 1899, to December 18, 1900; Washington, D. C, Chicago, 
 Philippine Islands. 
 
 Special Duty: Assistant Purchasing Agent, Isthmian 
 Canal Commission; Assistant Purchasing Agent, Panama 
 Railroad, February, 1909, to January, 1911. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 9, 1862, Buffalo, 
 New York. Married Mary E. Wilson, June 17, 1890, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. Children: Albert Wilson Davis, born Febru- 
 ary 23, 1892, Washington, D. C; Lamont Davis, born Febru- 
 ary 12, 1895, Washington, D. C; George Burwell Davis, II, 
 born March 8, 1900, Washington, D. C. 
 
 73 
 
HM 
 
(Bmv^t ^tttfn i^atjnn 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps. Station: Hot 
 Springs, Arkansas. 
 
 War and Field Service : Participated in Maloliis cam- 
 paign, March, 1899, and served in trenches around Manila, 
 April and May, 1899, as surgeon of 4th Infantry. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major Surgeon, 11th U. S. Vol- 
 unteer Cavalry, August 10, 1899, to March 14, 1900. Major 
 Surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, March 14, 1901, to February 1, 
 1903. 
 
 Special Duty: Commanding Officer, Army and Navy 
 General Hospital, since October 12, 1907- 
 
 Civii, Life : Resigned as 2nd Lieutenant, 23rd Infantry, 
 March 21, 1890; appointed 1st Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 
 U. S. Army, May 5, 1892. 
 
 Personal History: Born August 5, 1864, at Brookline, 
 Massachusetts. Married Susie H. Copeland, Fall River, 
 Massachusetts, July 7, 1886. Children: Marjorie Deshon, 
 born April 14, 1888, Fort Wayne, Michigan (Smith College, 
 1909) ; Percy Deshon, born July 12, 1889, Somerset, Massa- 
 chusetts (Dartmouth College, 1911). 
 
 7r) 
 
Mmts Homa irm^n 
 
 Address: Bardstown, Kentucky. 
 
 War and Fiei-d Service: Sioux campaign, 1890-91. 
 
 Volunteer Service : Tendered services for Spanish 
 War, but was not accepted. 
 
 Nationai. Guard: Declined rank for Adjutant Gen- 
 eral. 
 
 Civil Life: Resigned April 1, 1894. Connected with 
 various business and industrial enterprises. 
 
 Personal History: Born July 18, 1861, near Buffalo, 
 Kentucky. Married Virginia Megeath, Omaha, Nebraska, 
 June 12, 1889. Children: Margaret Druien, born Novem- 
 ber 23, 1891, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming ( Vassar College) ; 
 Mildred Megeath, born May 9, 1894, Fort D. A. Russell, 
 Wyoming. 
 
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(^tar^tMmnh iunran 
 
 Major, 2nd Infantry. Station: Fort Thomas, Ken- 
 tucky; April, 1911, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, taking 
 special course of instruction for ten weeks. Field Officers' 
 Course. Regiment sailed JMarch 5, 1911, for station at Scho- 
 field Barracks, Island of Oahu. 
 
 War and Field Service: Service in Cuba, Porto Rico, 
 and Philippines before conclusion of treaty of peace with 
 Spain. Probably the only officer who had this experience. 
 In Philippines during insurrection. Nine years' Philippine 
 service. To date less than three years' service in the States 
 since we went to war with Spain. 
 
 Special Duty: Major, Philippine Scouts, from Febru- 
 ary 28, 1905, to July 19, 1909. Acting chief of Scouts' Staff, 
 Commanding General's division, Philippines, last eighteen 
 months of this service. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 10, 1861, Lexington, 
 Kentucky. Married Mary Kercheval, of Virginia, October 
 23, 1895, at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Children: Henry T. Diui- 
 can, born July 24, 1903, Manila, Philippine Islands. 
 
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 I 
 
Major, 26th Infantry. Station: Fort Brady, Michigan. 
 
 War and Field Service: Pine Ridge Indian cam- 
 paign, 1890-91; Santiago campaign, 1898; Philippine insur- 
 rection and pacification, 1899-1902; foreign service. Southern 
 Islands, 1903-05, including expeditions of short duration. 
 Commanded land operations of expedition to Pata Island 
 (highly commended), 1904; also successful expedition to Ca- 
 gayan de Jolo, 1904. Commanded in Cotabato Valley, May 
 and June, 190o. Now commanding Fort Brady, Michigan. 
 While commanding battalion at Jolo, Philippine Islands, 
 it was pronounced by the Department Commander, at an 
 inspection conducted by him, to be the best battalion in the 
 De])artment. 
 
 Special Duty: College duty, McKeesport, Pennsylva- 
 nia, March 15 to September 1, 1894; recruiting service, 
 Roanoke, Virginia, July 13, 1906, to August 1, 1908. 
 
 Personal History: Born March 3, 1861, at Chardon, 
 Ohio. Married Fanny M. Van Home, daughter of Captain 
 W. M. Van Home (now Brigadier General, retired), at 
 Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 20, 1891. Children: Gordon 
 Adams Durfee, born Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, August 
 17, 1892 (Ann Arbor) ; Loyd Van Home Durfee, born Co- 
 lumbus Barracks, Ohio, December 23, 1895; Francis Morris 
 Durfee, born Columbus Barracks, Ohio, September 15, 1897; 
 Dorothy Durfee, born Roanoke, Virginia, October 2, 1906; 
 Donald Luiscott Durfee, born Chardon, Ohio, Julv 17, 1910. 
 
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E^?li-«^^^^-^SSS6=»asES^!;^^;^l^?^lS^'S35iS3i^l 
 
OIIfarUH Olrattan img^r 
 
 Major. Address: Armj^ and Navy Club, New York. 
 Retired November 16, 1909. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and 
 Colonel, 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry, May 12, 1898, to April 
 18, 1899, in Southern States and garrison duty in Cuba. 
 
 Special Duty: Infantry and Cavalry School, Torpedo 
 School, Military Attache, Mexico; served in Philippines and 
 Alaska. 
 
 Personal History: Born February 10, 1862, at Bren- 
 ham, Texas. 
 
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 HtUtam ^mr^t lEUtot 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Died August 11, 1898; Aged 35. 
 
 Elliot came of Army stock, being the son of Colonel 
 George H. Elliot, Corps of Engineers. He entered the Acad- 
 emy with the class in June, 1882, and soon became a great 
 favorite with his classmates. He was possessed of a fund of 
 entertaining anecdotes, and nothing delighted him more than 
 to retail them to a group of interesting listeners; a tendency 
 which earned him the sobriquet of "Windy." He was always 
 full of energy and fond of physical exercise ; the latter charac- 
 teristic rather rare in cadets, who usually find the physical 
 work kindly supplied by the authorities quite sufficient to 
 satisfy all their cravings in that respect. On graduation he 
 was assigned to the 9th Infantry, then serving in Arizona. 
 From the time he joined the regiment he was selected for duty 
 connected with Indians, and was present at San Carlos when 
 Seward Mott met his death. He entered the Infantry and 
 Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth in Jvme, 1888, and was 
 graduated June 25, 1891. On September 1, 1891, he was 
 assigned to command the Indian company of his regiment, and 
 marched it from Whipple Barracks to Fort Huachuca, Ari- 
 zona, a distance of 450 miles. Early in 1892 he was selected 
 for the important duty of recruiting Indians for the Army at 
 San Carlos and Fort Apache, Arizona. After a tom* of regi- 
 mental recruiting duty, he rejoined his regiment at Madison 
 Barracks, New York, and remained there imtil March, 1893, 
 when he was detailed for duty with the Indian company of 
 the 12th Infantry and with the Indian prisoners at Mount 
 Vernon Barracks, Alabama. On October 19, 1893, he was 
 
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promoted 1st Lieutenant, 12th Infantry. He took command 
 of the Indian company of his old regiment at Fort McPher- 
 son, Georgia, in July, 1893, and remained with it until the sum- 
 mer of 1894. In August of that year he was detailed as Pro- 
 fessor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of 
 Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but was relieved in Septem- 
 ber of the following year. The three years that followed were 
 spent with his regiment at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska. In 
 April, 1898, he accompanied his regiment to Chickamauga 
 Park, but was detailed for duty in connection with the muster- 
 in of volunteer troops at Atlanta, Georgia. When his regi- 
 ment was ordered for duty with the Santiago Expedition, he 
 joined it at Tampa and later accompanied it to Cuba. He 
 was present at El Caney and the operations around Santiago, 
 and, although sick with malarial fever, he remained on duty 
 with his company until after the surrender. He went on sick 
 report for a short time in July, but again returned to duty, 
 evidently before he was fit; for early in August he was seized 
 with a severe attack of remittent fever and died August 11th, 
 at the age of thirty-five. He was buried in the cemetery at 
 Santiago. 
 
 No one who knew him can fail to believe that he was 
 ready and willing to give up his life in the service of his 
 country ; and we, his classmates, know perhaps best of all what 
 a loss his country sustained in the death of this upright, gallant 
 and unselfish soldier. 
 
 The following regimental order was published at his 
 death: 
 
 Headquarters 12th U. S. Infantry, 
 
 Camp near Santiago de Cuba^ 
 
 August 11, 1898. 
 General Orders, No. 51. 
 
 First Lieutenant William G. Elliot, 12th Infantry, died 
 at the Divisional Hospital, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, 
 near Santiago de Cuba, this morning at 3.30 from congestive 
 fever following remittent fever of a low type. Funeral ser- 
 
 85 
 
B®?;J««8£ae^r^i'g|!;SfcSiSSi5SK2iSS=5fflfemiJ^ 
 
 vices will be held at the hospital at about 4 P. M. today. The 
 Regiment thus loses one of its ablest and best officers, one whose 
 ability and devotion to duty are well known wherever he has 
 served in the Army. He dies a victim of the epidemic of fever 
 now prevailing, the disease contracted while bravely and 
 devotedly performing his duties in the campaign ; at El Caney, 
 July 1st, at San Juan, July 2nd and 3rd, and in the subsequent 
 operations. 
 
 By order of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Comba: 
 
 (Signed) Frank L. Winn, 
 
 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Official copy: 
 
 (Sgd.) Frank L. Winn, 
 Captain and Adjutant, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 A true copy. 
 
 (Sgd.) F. J. Morrow, 
 Captain and Adjutant, 12th Infantry. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
 Born in the Army at Benicia Barracks, California, dur- 
 ing the Civil War, of distinguished Army stock, William 
 George Elliot inherited the military spirit in its best form. At 
 West Point he was the embodiment of patriotism, courage and 
 a high sense of duty and honor, those fine qualities of character 
 that form the ideals of the Academy. Extremely sensitive 
 and proud, he was quick to resent an injury, but never inten- 
 tional in provoking one; he had the reserve and dignity of 
 a noble, but was sociable and genial with his classmates and a 
 friend second to none when anj^ were in trouble. Such a 
 man, needless to say, held the respect of the entire cadet body 
 and of all others who knew him. Several years after gradua- 
 tion, while still a second lieutenant with little prospect of pro- 
 motion, he visited Angel Island, California, and on one occa- 
 sion, leaning against the old columbiad mounted in the battery 
 above the present Fort McDowell, while looking out upon 
 
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the Golden Gate in thoughtful mood, he said to a classmate, 
 "What would you do if anything happened to deprive you of 
 your commission?" The answer is not recalled, but he replied 
 in turn to the same question, "I would enlist. I love my pro- 
 fession and would rather follow it in any capacity than any 
 other." 
 
 Some years later Elliot was at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska. 
 He liked that station, enjoj^ed the hunting and fishing, de- 
 lighted in riding with the dogs after coyotes and jack rabbits, 
 and habitually lived in the open when duties permitted. He 
 preferred the boundless unfenced plains, the sense of freedom 
 that the life of the prairie gave, to the greater comforts and 
 more conventional pleasures of posts near large cities. He did 
 chafe at times under the exactions of routine and could never 
 understand why he should be called to account for missing a 
 roll-call that he had forgotten while absorbed in the pleasures 
 of the chase or the enjoyment of a cross-country run. 
 
 The Spanish War found him at his best. The first disap- 
 pointment came when at Chickamauga he was detached from 
 his regiment and sent to one of the New England States as 
 quartermaster for a volunteer camp, but soldierlike he obeyed, 
 with little outward manifestation of the disgust he really felt. 
 His regiment was soon ordered to Tampa, and he chafed the 
 more while performing his duty in the Eastern camp ; he wrote 
 and telegraphed for relief, but in vain, and finally went to 
 Washington. He waited and took his turn for an interview 
 with the Adjutant General, whom he knew personally. Gen- 
 eral Corbin, thinking that Elliot, like so many others, was after 
 some special preferment, was at first sharp and gruff, but was 
 disarmed when the latter told his story and simply asked to 
 be ordered back to his regiment so that he could go with it to 
 Cuba. The order was issued. Soon after the 5th Army 
 Corps landed at Daiquiri, Elliot, who was a graduate of the 
 old Infantry and Cavalry School, was selected by Colonel 
 Wagner for duty under him in the reconnaissance in front of 
 the 2nd Division. This duty pleased and appealed to 
 
 87 
 
ESC,t5»lKSBiaS^^^i3f52?ew!3ffiS^?S^B^^?^Sffi?lPi^i^^ 
 
 Elliot; he was naturally a scout and explorer; the probability 
 of first contact with the enemy was an exhilaration and an 
 incentive for his best efforts; he went at the work with great 
 enthusiasm and full knowledge of its requirements. But he 
 had a fall, one of those strange turns of the Goddess of For- 
 tune against which no man can guard. Late at night of the 
 same day that he had gone forth so cheerily, he returned and 
 reported to the Adjutant at Regimental Headquarters, "Sir, 
 I report in arrest by order of the Division Commander," The 
 Adjutant, a classmate, was astounded. Elliot then said that 
 after an exciting but satisfactory day's work the party had 
 reached Siboney, where the Division Commander joined them. 
 All were resting on the porch of one of the houses of that 
 place engaged in general and friendly conversation, when a 
 sergeant of Elliot's detachment came up and said, "Lieuten- 
 ant, don't you want a drink of wine?" at the same time handing 
 his tin cup to Elliot. The latter took it, noticed that it con- 
 tained some claret and passed it to the General, saying, "Won't 
 you try it, sir?" Whereupon the great man jumped up and 
 in an excited, angry tone said in substance, "Sir, your men 
 have been looting, you are in arrest." And so it happened 
 without faidt on his part, without opportunity to explain, 
 without cause for provocation, the gallant, splendid fellow 
 foimd himself humiliated, deprived of his sword, in disgrace 
 with his commanding General on hostile soil, in the face of the 
 enemj^ at the very beginning of the campaign. The follow- 
 ing day, that of Las Guasimas, the Division was rushed at the 
 sound of firing to the scene of the engagement, Elliot in the 
 rear of his company. As the regiment at a swinging, lively 
 pace passed by the General and his staff, Colonel Wagner 
 stopped the Lieutenant Colonel commanding, said something, 
 and in a moment Elliot was released from arrest and restored 
 to the command of his company. 
 
 July 1, 1898, was the day of San Juan Hill, of El Caney, 
 of glorious victory for the American Army about Santiago. 
 Elliot in command of Company "B" led the regiment, the 12th 
 
 88 
 
Infantry, which played a decisive part in the battle, in the 
 attack upon the stone fort and entrenchments about El Caney. 
 Leading his men vmder the cover of the inequalities of ground 
 and the low tropical undergrowth, he was able to reach unob- 
 served a position on a knoll almost overlooking the enemy's 
 trenches and within four hundred yards of the stone fort, when 
 suddenly a single rifle-shot rang out on the clear, still summer 
 morning like no other shot the great majority of the officers and 
 men of Shafter's Army "had ever heard before. It was immedi- 
 ately followed by a general fusillade from the fort and the 
 trenches about El Caney. Another of the world's decisive 
 battles had begun, the first shot of which was fired at Elliot and 
 his company, the vanguard of the American onslaught upon 
 Vara del Rey and the brave defenders of El Caney. This 
 position gained at the outset by Elliot, marked for many hours 
 the extreme front reached by the 6,000 men who fought all day 
 until foiu* thirty in the afternoon, with casualties amounting 
 to twenty-nine officers and four hundred and twelve enlisted 
 men before El Caney could be inscribed upon the regimental 
 banners as one of the nation's great achievements. 
 
 The surrender of Santiago found the Army impregnated 
 with the germs of disease; the handwriting was on the wall. 
 The regiment had buried those killed in battle on the field; it 
 soon began to bury the first to succumb to the fever scourge, 
 the Regimental Quartermaster, Sergeant Berry, first, and then 
 another and another and many more in the days of waiting 
 that seemed never to end. Elliot tried in every possible way 
 to alleviate the sufferings of his men. Medicine and suitable 
 food were most needed. Sick himself, he went into the city, 
 searched and found a little quinine, some few delicacies and 
 other supplies. He packed them on the horse that he had 
 borrowed from a staff officer, brought them to camp to his men, 
 walking himself and leading the heavily laden animal. He 
 worked hard in and about camp, struggled to keep up, but it 
 was no use. He too had the fever; the exposure in behalf of 
 others aggravated if it did not bring on the short illness 
 
 89 
 
that followed. He was one of the first officers taken to the 
 newly established Division Hospital, where he died soon after. 
 While the transport with the remnant of the Regiment 
 ready to sail for Montauk Point waited in the harbor of 
 glorious victory and pestilential shame, the remains of the 
 beloved, honored, noble Elliot were buried by the men of his 
 command temporarily in the cemetery of the city; they now 
 rest in Arlington, the nation's necropolis. 
 
 F. L. W. 
 
 90 
 
Major of Cavalry. Station: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
 Special Duty: On duty, Infantry and Cavalry School, 
 1891-93; on recruiting duty, 1894-95; on niustering-in duty, 
 Texas Volunteers, April-May, 1898. Instructor, Army Ser- 
 vice Schools, 1908 to date. 
 
 Peksonal History: Born February 5, 1865, at Savan- 
 nah, Georgia. Married at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to Kate 
 Walker Otey, of Lynchburg, Virginia, February 8, 1888. 
 Children: Caroline Elliott, born ^Nlarch 8, 1889, Fort Reno, 
 Oklahoma; Dabney Otey Elliott, born October 13, 1890, 
 Suwanee, Tennessee, member of the present foin'th class, 
 U. S. Military Academy; Robert Habersham P](lliott, born 
 October 19, 1896, Fort Brown, Texas. 
 
 93 
 
/ 
 
Frank l^ntn« S^oiul^r 
 
 No photograph obtainable 
 
 Resigned October 30, 1888. Address and civil history 
 unknown. The following data are taken from Ciillum's 
 Register : 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 4th Cavalry, July 1, 1886. 
 
 Military History: Served on frontier duty at Fort 
 Huachuca, Arizona, September 30, 1886, to February 6, 1887, 
 San Carlos, Arizona, to Februarj^ 23, 1888, Fort Huachuca, 
 Arizona, to May 14, 1888; on sick leave of absence to Septem- 
 ber 10, 1888; and on frontier duty at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 
 to October 30, 1888. 
 
 US 
 
Captain^ U. S. Army^ Retired. 
 Died August 22, 1910; Aged 47. 
 
 The writer's first experiences at the Military Academy- 
 are associated with a ground floor room in the eighth division, 
 where, in September, 1882, with Freeland and Trout, whose 
 death notices he is now writing, he underwent the pleasant 
 ceremonies that are the lot of all young aspirants for military 
 glory at the opening of their West Point career. Freeland 
 went through the four years without special remark, except 
 that he was always the same genial "Oscar," whose keen sense 
 of humor helped out many a dreary hour when 1.5's were 
 occurring with too great frequency and "skins" were plentiful. 
 His struggles with the Spanish language made him famous. 
 In our last Howitzer the best known 
 "of all the sons of men 
 Were the Spaniard, Don Freelando, and the chemist, Jones, 
 E. N." 
 
 Upon graduation he was promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd 
 Infantry, and stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Here he 
 remained until June 1, 1890, when he was detailed as Instructor 
 of Chemistry at West Point. Here the writer met him again, 
 and found him the same quiet, jolly character, the same incorri- 
 gible bachelor as in the cadet days. He was promoted 1st 
 Lieutenant, 5th Infantry, July 4, 1892, and was transferred 
 to his old regiment on August 12th of the same year. On his 
 relief from duty at the Academy in August, 1894, he returned 
 to Fort Snelling, where he remained until the breaking out of 
 the Spanish- American War. He accompanied his regiment to 
 Mobile in June, 1898, but was too sick to accompany it to 
 
 96 
 
Cuba with the first expedition. Before he was entirely recov- 
 ered he rejoined it in Cuba on July 23rd, but was soon obliged 
 to take a sick leave until October, 1898. In January of the 
 following year he went to the Philippines and was promoted 
 Captain, 3rd Infantry, March 2, 1899. 
 
 The disease which had long been threatening him — loco- 
 motor ataxia — and which had been aggravated by tropical 
 service, now made his retirement necessary. On October 20, 
 1902, he was transferred to the 2nd Infantry and on the fol- 
 lowing day he was placed on the retired list. He returned 
 to his home in Calvert County, Maryland, where he remained 
 until his death, August 22, 1910. 
 
 His classmates will remember him as an upright and 
 efficient officer and a devoted friend. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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MmtB ^tni^ 3mv 
 
 Major, 10th Infantry. Station: Fort Benjamin Har- 
 rison, Indiana. • 
 
 War and Field Service: Commanding Company "D," 
 17th Infantiy, throughout campaign against Spain, 1898 — 
 El Caney, San Juan Hill, Santiago; commanding Company 
 "M," 17th Infantry, Philippine insurrection, 1900-01; Regi- 
 mental Commissary and Quartermaster, 17th Infantry, Cuban 
 pacification, 1906-07. 
 
 Special Duty : Graduate, Submarine School of Mining, 
 1891; Military Instructor, Delaware College, Delaware, 1893- 
 97; graduate. Army School of the Line, 1908; graduate. Army 
 War College, 1909. 
 
 Remarks: Service as Regimental Adjutant, Commis- 
 sary and Quartermaster in campaigns in Cuba and Philip- 
 pines; also in Moro campaigns, in addition to commanding a 
 company in each. 
 
 Personal History: Born March 15, 1864, Bowling 
 Green, Pike County, Missouri. Married (1) Mary Lee Mar- 
 shall, niece of Chief Justice Marshall and General Robert E. 
 Lee, March, 1888, who died April, 1890, no issue; (2) Sarah 
 Elizabeth Hewit, daughter of H. S. Hewit, Chief Surgeon to 
 General U. S. Grant, August 26, 1892. Children: Sarah 
 Lloyd Frier, born July 5, 1893, Wilmington, Delaware (Notre 
 Dame, of Maryland) ; J. Henly Frier, born July 26, 1895, 
 Wilmington, Delaware; John Mason and Mary Alcj'' (twins), 
 born December 15, 1899, Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
 
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2nd Lieutenant, 24th U. S. Infantry. 
 Died March 28, 1889; Aged 25. 
 
 Fulton entered the Academy from Ohio in June, 1882, 
 and was graduated with the class June 12, 1886, holding the 
 highly honorable and difficult position of "goat." He was 
 promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 24th Infantry, and in October 
 joined his regiment at Fort Supply, Indian Territory. Dur- 
 ing the all-too-short period of his service he counted Fort Sup- 
 ply as his station, but he was continuously away on detached 
 service, principally in the field. He commanded Company 
 "B," Indian Scouts, from October 21, 1887, to May 24, 1888, 
 and while on this duty he was sent out to scout for timber 
 thieves, a duty which he performed with marked good judg- 
 ment and discretion. He spent the month of May, 1888, 
 guarding Indian property and herds along the Canadian 
 River. In March, 1889, he went to Fort Bowie, Arizona, for 
 garrison court-martial duty. On the completion of this work 
 he returned to Fort Bayard, New Mexico, where he was seized 
 with pneumonia on March 23, and died March 28, 1889. 
 
 It seems almost an idle task to recall Fulton's good quali- 
 ties to his classmates who remember him so well. Always 
 cheerful and full of high spirits, he was forever making the 
 grey days look bright ; he never made an enemy, and his quaint 
 wit and wise sayings earned his nickname of "Moses." The 
 esteem in which he was held by his regiment is attested by the 
 following order published at the time of his death: 
 
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Headquarters 24th U. S. Infantry, 
 
 Fort Bayard, N. M., 
 
 March 31, 1889. 
 Orders, No. 20. 
 
 It is with deep sorrow that the Regimental Commander 
 announces the death of 2nd Lieutenant D. W. Fulton, 24th 
 Infantry, who died on the 28th instant, of pneumonia, at Fort 
 Bayard, New Mexico. 
 
 Lieutenant Fulton was born in Ohio, October 31, 1863, 
 appointed a cadet at West Point from Illinois in 1882, was 
 graduated in 1886 and assigned to the 24th Infantry, then 
 stationed in the Indian Territory. 
 
 He was on detached service in 1888 at the Cantonment, 
 Indian Territory, in command of a detachment guarding trails 
 and escorting herds, at a time when there was danger of serious 
 trouble with the Indians, and by his good judgment and 
 prompt action in arresting turbulent characters averted what 
 might have resulted in serious complications. 
 
 Lieutenant Fulton was a young officer of much promise, 
 of high moral character, and by diligence and faithfulness in 
 the discharge of his official duties and his kind and gentlemanly 
 deportment had gained the respect and esteem of all with 
 whom he had served and associated. 
 
 As a mark of respect for the deceased the regimental 
 colors will be draped and the officers of the Regiment will wear 
 the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 
 By order of Colonel Bliss : 
 
 (Signed) J. J. Brereton, 
 
 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 24th Infantry. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Captain, 22nd U. S. Infantry. 
 Killed in Action June 3, 1900; Aged 39. 
 
 Wounded at El Caney, killed in action in the Philippine 
 insurrection — this might well constitute the whole obituary 
 of a soldier. To have this glorious testimony of duty done 
 graven on a tablet in the Memorial Hall at West Point was 
 the good fortune of our dead classmate. As we remember 
 him — the "boy officer" of Kipling — we might not at first asso- 
 ciate his trim form and gentle ways with such a record as this ; 
 but we who know what the motto "Duty, Honor, Country" 
 means to all the sons of West Point, know also that every one 
 of them would be glad to meet with such a fate as this. 
 
 Godfrey came to the Academy from New York City and 
 was assigned to "C" Company. He went through the four 
 years, his career unmarked by any lofty ambition for chevrons 
 or by frequent perambulations on the area. The writer 
 remembers him particularly as a faithful attendant at the hops, 
 where he chiefly distinguished himself by always selecting the 
 tallest girl in the room to dance with, and by the cheerful way in 
 which he often helped out a distracted hop manager with a 
 large bouquet of wall-flowers on his hands. 
 
 On graduation he was assigned as 2nd Lieutenant, 12th 
 Infantry, and joined, after the usual leave, at Fort Sully, 
 S. D. He spent the seven years of service in this regiment at 
 the above named post, at old Fort Pierre, S. D., and at Fort 
 Bennett. On February 1, 1893, he was promoted 1st Lieu- 
 tenant, 22nd Infantrj^ and joined his new regiment at Fort 
 Keogh, Montana, in April of the same year. The usual gar- 
 rison duties were performed at this post, at Forts Yates and 
 
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Meade, S. D., and at Fort Crook, Nebraska, until 1898, with 
 the exception of a tour of duty in the railroad strikes of 1894 
 on the Northern Pacific Railroad and a long sick leave of seven 
 months in 1896. 
 
 At the outbreak of the war he accompanied his regiment 
 to Tampa and sailed with the Santiago Expedition on June 
 14, 1898. He was shot in the attack on El Caney, July 1st, 
 and when the fighting was over he was invalided home on a 
 three months' sick leave. At the conclusion of this leave he 
 rejoined his regiment at Fort Crook, Nebraska, in October, 
 1898. Although unfit for field service as the result of his 
 wound received in the Santiago campaign, he started with his 
 regiment for the Philippines in January, 1899; but on reach- 
 ing San Francisco he was unable to continue farther, and was 
 given a three months' sick leave. He was promoted Captain, 
 22nd Infantry, March 2, 1899, and sailed for the Philippines, 
 where he arrived in June of the same year. 
 
 He commanded Company "D" of his regiment at Candaba, 
 P. I., performing at the same time the duties of Provost Mar- 
 shal at that place. In November he was transferred to Com- 
 pany "A." During this period he was engaged in the trying 
 service incident to the insurrection, and stuck to his post, 
 although often too sick to be on duty roster at all. In January, 
 1900, he assumed command of Santa Anna, Pampanga, Luzon, 
 and continued on this duty to March 15, 1900. On the early 
 morning of June 3, 1900, he was killed in action at Bulucan 
 Mountain, near San Miguel de Mayumo, and later was buried 
 in the National Cemetery at Manila. 
 
 The following order was issued upon his death from the 
 headquarters of his regiment: 
 
 Headquarters 22nd U. S. Infantry, 
 
 Arayat, Luzon, P. I., June 4, 1900. 
 
 General Orders, No. 10. 
 
 Captain George J. Godfrey, 22nd U. S. Infantry. Killed 
 in action. Shot through the heart. His military record is 
 closed. A brilliant career ended. 
 
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Deeds, silent symbols more potent than words, proclaimed 
 his soldier worth. 
 
 The histories of the 5th and 8th Army Corps are his. 
 
 Official commendation but emphasized what all men knew. 
 
 Cuban soil saw his valor. 
 
 Under a tropical sun, on morn of June 3, 1900, among 
 the lonely fastnesses of the Bulucan Mountains, as victory 
 crowned the combat, he gave for "the flag" the life he had 
 dedicated to his country. 
 
 His mind was trained for the profession of arms. 
 
 His heart and impulses were generous. 
 
 Conscientious and zealous discharge of duty were his guid- 
 ing tenet. 
 
 He sought no preferment through avenues foreign to the 
 service. His first thought was his country's cause — personal 
 ambition his last. 
 
 Thus he stood a peer among the best type of American 
 soldier. 
 
 In the civil administration of a pueblo, to the misguided 
 native people he extended the hand of fellowship and led them 
 along the true path of civilization. His work is enduring. 
 
 Into the unspeakable grief which now moves the hearts of 
 those who dwell in our far-distant native land, we dare not 
 enter. In silence and with memory filled with sorrow, the 
 Regiment stands and mourns with them for our brother. 
 By order of Major Baldwin: 
 
 (Signed) ^ H. C. Hodges, Je., 
 
 Captain, 22nd Infantry, Adjutant. 
 Official: 
 
 Geo. S. Simonds, 
 
 Captain, 22nd Infantry, 
 Adjutant. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Halter l|?ttrg O^nr&on 
 
 Major of Infantry, detailed Inspector General. Station: 
 Headquarters Department of Dakota, St. Paul, JNIinnesota. 
 
 War and Field Service: Philippine campaign on 
 Islands of Panay and Guimaras, March, 1899, to September, 
 1901. Commanded Moimted Scouts, October, 1899, to Sep- 
 tember, 1901. With General Hughes' expeditions against 
 Capiz and Calibo, Panaj^ Xovember, 1899, to March, 1900. 
 In command of operations against Quintin Salas, February to 
 April, 1901. Engagements: La Granja, Passi, Antique, and 
 a number of minor actions and skirmishes in Panay during 
 1899, 1900, and 1901. 
 
 Volunteer Service: With 1st Delaware Volunteer 
 Infantry during Spanish- American War — Major, June 29 
 to August 20, 1898; Colonel, August 21 to November 16, 1898. 
 At Middletown, Delaware, Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, and 
 Wilmington, Delaware. 
 
 Special Duty: Submarine Mining Course, Willets 
 Point, December, 1890, to October, 1891. On duty at 
 World's Fair, Chicago, June, 1893, to March, 1894. On duty 
 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, September, 1894, 
 to September, 1895, and at Delaware College, Newark, Janu- 
 ary, 1897, to April, 1898. JNIustering duty, Middletown, Del- 
 aware, April to June, 1898; Acting Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
 eral, Headquarters Department Visayas, Iloilo, May, 1903, 
 to May, 1904. Detailed General Staff, November, 1907, to 
 March 23, 1909. Detailed Inspector General's Department, 
 April 2, 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 24, 1863, at Artonisch, 
 Mississippi. Married Laura A. Doan, February 17, 1896, 
 St. Louis, Missouri. Children: Ellen M. Gordon, born Sep- 
 tember 21, 1897, Wilmington, Delaware (Visitation Convent, 
 St. Paul, Minnesota). 
 
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Captain, 11th U. S. Cavalry. 
 Died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, May 11, 1911 ; Aged 47. 
 
 Haines came of military stock, being the son of General 
 T. J. Haines, Class of 1849, U. S. Military Academy. He 
 entered the Academy in September, 1882, and was graduated 
 June 12, 1886. Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Cav- 
 alry, July 1, he joined his regiment at Fort Riley, Kansas, 
 in October of the same year. He was at once ordered on field 
 service, accompanying a band of Indians to the Fox Indian 
 reservation in the Indian Territory. After a short tour at 
 Fort Sill he entered the Infantry and Cavahy School at Fort 
 Leavenworth, September 1, 1887, and was graduated there- 
 from June 24, 1889. Shortly after joining his troop he was 
 detailed on temporary duty as assistant instructor in the 
 Department of Engineering at the school, but relinquished 
 this duty to take part in the Pine Ridge campaign. 
 
 He was later assigned to duty as a regular instructor at 
 the Infantrj^ and Cavalry School, where he remained until 
 relieved at his own request, September 1, 1893. He was pro- 
 moted to 1st Lieutenant, 1st Cavalry, July 22, 1892, but was 
 transferred to his old regiment in December of the same year. 
 After several months' service in Texas he was ordered to Wash- 
 ington on temporary duty, upon completion of which he took 
 a course of instruction at Springfield Arsenal, remaining there 
 imtil October 1, 1894. He was appointed Regimental Quar- 
 termaster March 1, 1897, and served in that capacity at Mobile, 
 Alabama, and at Tampa, Florida, during the Spanish- Ameri- 
 can War. From the latter place he was forced to take a sick 
 leave from August imtil December, 1898. Troop duty and 
 
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a tour of recruiting service filled the time until January 11, 
 1899, when he rejoined his regiment at San Juan, Porto Rico. 
 
 Returning to the United States in August, 1900, he took 
 station at Fort Myer, Virginia. He was promoted Captain, 
 February 2, 1901, and later was assigned to the 11th Cavalry. 
 He organized Troop "A" of that regiment at Fort Myer and 
 later changed station with it to Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. 
 From the latter post he went to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 
 where he commanded tlie post and the 1st squadron of his 
 regiment until August 1, 1901. He sailed with his regiment 
 for the Philippines in January, 1902, and on arrival in Manila 
 was sent to Samar for station. During his Philippine tour he 
 acted as assistant to the Adjutant General, Department of 
 Luzon, and later was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Major Gen- 
 eral J. F. Wade, commanding the division. 
 
 In February, 1904, he returned to the United States, and 
 after a short leave rejoined his regiment at Fort Riley, Kan- 
 sas. He was appointed Regimental Adjutant in June, 1905, 
 and reported for duty at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. During 
 the Fort Riley maneuvers of 1906 he acted as Adjutant Gen- 
 eral of the Maneuver Camp. Shortly after returning to his 
 post he accompanied his regiment to Cuba, arriving in Havana 
 October 19, 1906. 
 
 From his return to the United States in December of the 
 same year until the departure of his regiment for the Maneu- 
 ver Camp at San Antonio, Texas, in March, 1911, Captain 
 Haines served with his troop at various posts in the United 
 States. During this period he was called upon many times 
 for important special duty, such as the inspection of militia, 
 as Chief Range Officer at Camp Perry, Ohio, in charge of the 
 arrangements for the Military Tournament at Nashville, 
 Tennessee, etc. 
 
 At San Antonio Haines commanded the 1st squadron, 
 1st Provisional Regiment. While at Leon Springs with his 
 command he became ill and was obliged to return to the 
 Maneuver Camp on May 5th. He was operated upon for 
 
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appendicitis, but peritonitis set in and he died at 12.45 A. M., 
 May 11th. His body was brought to Washington and buried 
 from the Post Chapel at Fort Mj^er on May 15th. His 
 remains lie in the National Cemetery at Arlington. 
 
 The above bald statement of Haines' service gives but a 
 faint idea of the fidelity and devotion with which he performed 
 every duty that was given him to do. At home, in Cuba, 
 Porto Rico and the Philippines he was always the efficient 
 and lovable officer and gentleman. The mass of flowers that 
 covered his coffin as it lay in the chapel at Fort Myer bore 
 mute but convincing testimony as to what the enlisted men 
 thought of him as an officer. 
 
 At the time of Haines' death his name was before the 
 Senate as a Major of Cavalry, but he was not confirmed in 
 time to accept the commission. 
 
 The following regimental order was published on the occa- 
 sion of Captain Haines' death: 
 
 Headquarters 11th Cavalry, 
 San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 1911. 
 
 General Orders, No. 26. 
 
 The Regimental Commander has the sad duty of announc- 
 ing the death, from appendicitis, of Major John T. Haines, 
 Captain of the 11th Cavalry since its formation, and whose 
 promotion to the grade of Major had just been announced. 
 
 Major Haines was an accomplished and brilliant officer, 
 whose untimely death is a great loss to the Army. 
 
 As a comrade Major Haines endeared himself to all of 
 his brother officers by his kind and lovable natvu'e. As a 
 commander he had the devotion and respect of his men. 
 
 The sympathy of the Regiment is extended to his mourn- 
 ing family. 
 
 The usual mark of mourning will be worn for thirty days. 
 By order of Colonel Parker: 
 
 Herbert A. White, 
 Captain and Adjutant, 11th Cavalry. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Major of Cavalry. Station : Fort Reno Remount Depot, 
 Fort Reno, Oklahoma. 
 
 Voi-UNTEER Service: Major, 2oth Missouri Volunteer 
 Infantry, May 23 to July 22, 1898, at Jefferson Barracks, 
 Missouri; Colonel, 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, July 23, 
 1898, to May 10, 1899, Florida, Georgia, and Cuba. 
 
 Special Duty: Detailed Quartermaster's Department, 
 November 7, 1905, to November 6, 1907. In charge of Fort 
 Reno Remount Depot from its organization, April 22, 1907, 
 to date. 
 
 Personal History: Born April 30, 1864, at Arrow 
 Rock, Saline County, Missouri. Married Adelaide Parker 
 Russell, January 7, 1891, Springfield, Missouri. Children: 
 Ruth Emily Hardeman, born October 25, 1891, Fort Sherman, 
 Idaho; Pauline Russell Hardeman, born July 29, 1896, Fort 
 Assinniboine, Montana. 
 
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FlngJi IfarrtH 
 
 Address: (summer) "Stake", Aldie, Virginia; (winter) 
 1717 P Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
 
 War and Field Service: One year's continuous war 
 service with 4th U. S. Cavalry, against Filipino insurgents, 
 from 1899 to 1900; names and dates of skirmishes and engage- 
 ments forgotten. 
 
 Special Duty: Militaiy Attache, U. S. Legation, 
 Brussels, Belgium, 1892-97, five years; Military Attache, 
 American Embassy, Vienna, Austria, 1901-05, four years. 
 
 Civil Life: Resigned as Captain, 4th Cavalry, March 
 31, 1906. Now a farmer. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 26, 1861, Barbour 
 County, West Virginia. Married, at Hong Kong, China, 
 Eleanor Truax O'Neil, of Walla Walla, Washington, June 
 19, 1900. Children: Eleanor Harris, born April 19, 1901, 
 Manila, Philippine Islands; Mary Virginia Harris, born 
 December 31, 1902, Vienna, Austria; Martha Harris, born 
 April 8, 1904, Vienna, Austria; Floyd Morrison Harris, 
 born June 25, 1905, Tacoma, Washington; Sarah Harris, 
 born April 26, 1909, Aldie, Virginia. 
 
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 Major of Cavalry. Station : Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. 
 
 Volunteer Service : Captain, Assistant Quartermaster 
 of Volunteers, November 26, 1898, to March 15, 1901. Served 
 as such at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, till December 28, 1898, 
 in charge of Commissary, Quartermaster and Ordnance prop- 
 erty and subsistence of Pennsylvania Volunteers during their 
 muster-out. Served in Cuba as Collector of Customs of 
 Matanzas; also during October and November, 1900, as Chief 
 of Customs Service of Cuba and Collector for Port of Havana. 
 
 Special Duty: Routine service in all staff departments. 
 Quartermaster in charge of all Pennsylvania Volunteers at 
 their camp. Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, April 30 to Decem- 
 ber 28, 1898. On civil duty as Collector of Customs, etc., at 
 Matanzas, Cuba, December 28, 1898, to May 20, 1902; during 
 four months of this time was, in addition to duties at 
 Matanzas, Acting Chief of the Customs Service of Cuba and 
 Collector for the Port of Havana. Foiu' years and eight 
 months on college duty in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Personal History: Born on a farm near Monticello, 
 Florida, July 16, 1860. Married Edith Carman, of Easton, 
 Maryland, November 17, 1887. Children: Thomas Robson 
 Hay, born San Antonio, Texas, October 2, 1888 (Pennsylva- 
 nia State College, 1909) ; William Wren Hay, born Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, January 6, 1890 (University of Ver- 
 mont, 1910) ; Edward Northup Hay, born Fort Leavenworth, 
 Kansas, February 20, 1891 (Cornell University, 1912) ; Rich- 
 ard Carman Hay, born Fort Custer, Montana, December 22, 
 1893 (University of Vermont, 1913). 
 
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Major, 29th Infantry; by detail member of General Staff 
 Corps. Station: Denver, Colorado, but on duty in the field 
 in connection with maintaining the neutrality laws between 
 the United States and Mexico on the Arizona-New Mexico 
 southern boundary. 
 
 War and Field Service: In field from April, 1896, to 
 August, 1896, in southern Arizona in connection with Indian 
 depredations. In field in Southern camps, April, 1898, to 
 August, 1898. In field in Porto Rico, August, 1898, to 
 December, 1898, taking part in engagement at Hormigueros, 
 Porto Rico. In Philippines from April, 1899, to March, 1902. 
 Took part in engagement of Paranagua and Zapote Bridge, 
 June, 1899. In actions in San Fernando and Calulut, North 
 Luzon, August, 1899; at Bamban, August, 1899; at Angeles, 
 August, 1899, and in minor affairs about Angeles, October, 
 1899. In Philippine Islands, April, 1904, to November, 1905, 
 but was absent on leave and detached serv^ice for several 
 months. 
 
 Special Duty: Instructor in Department of Mathe- 
 matics, United States Military Academy, from 1891 to 1895; 
 Regimental Adjutant, 11th Infantry, April, 1898, to July, 
 1898; Regimental Quartermaster, 12th Infantry, from 
 November, 1899, to May, 1902; Regimental Adjutant, 12th 
 Infantry, from October, 1903, to July, 1905; member of Gen- 
 eral Staff from March 28, 1907, to date. Commissar}^ of Sub- 
 sistence Department, Colorado, July 1, 1907, to date. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 17, 1864, Philadel- 
 phia, Pennsylvania. 
 
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Major, 15th Infantry. Station: Fort Douglas, Utah. 
 
 War and Field Service : Served in Cuba, Spanish War, 
 Santiago campaign, 1898, and in Philippine Islands, 1899- 
 1902. 
 
 Personal History: Born July 9, 1863, at Waterbury, 
 Connecticut. Married Elizabeth Lapham Howard, Septem- 
 ber 1, 1886, Syracuse, New York. Children: Adele Howard 
 Holley. Married children: Adele H. Plolley, to Lieutenant 
 J. M. Wainwright, 1st Cavalry, February 18, 1911, at Fort 
 Douglas, Utah. Station, Fort Yellowstone, Montana. 
 
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Arthur Jntinaon 
 
 No photograph obtainable 
 
 Major, 19th Infantry. Station: Camp Jossman, Gui- 
 maras, Philippine Islands. 
 
 Wab and Field Service: In Spanish War with 5th 
 Army Corps, General Chaffee's Commissary; at El Caney 
 and the siege and surrender of Santiago; Philippine insurrec- 
 tion, 1899-1901: with Kobbe's expedition up the Rio Grande; 
 with General Schwan's expedition around Imus ; with General 
 Wheaton's expedition, landing at San Fabian in rear of 
 Aguinaldo's army. Engagements: San Fernando, Cavite 
 Vie jo, Novalete, San Francisco de Malabon, San Fabian, and 
 Asingan. In active service since 1882. 
 
 Special Duty: Graduate A. S. of the L., 1908; War 
 College, 1909; in charge of White Mountain Apaches, 1891-94; 
 recruiting duty, Evansville, Indiana, 1902-03; umpire at 
 maneuvers. Fort Riley, 1908; Fort Benjamin Harrison, 1908; 
 Massachusetts, 1909. 
 
 Personal History: Born July 9, 1861, St. Peter, Min- 
 nesota. Married Edith Jackson Read, December 23, 1890, 
 Red Rock, Pennsylvania. Children: Arthur Read Johnson, 
 born October 20, 1891, Red Rock, Pennsylvania (St. Thomas 
 College, St. Paul, Minnesota) ; William Ogden Johnson, born 
 February 27, 1893, Fort Apache, Arizona (St. Thomas Col- 
 lege) ; Edith Margaret Johnson, born May 11, 1895, Columbus 
 Barracks, Ohio (St. Catherine's College, St. Paul, Minne- 
 sota) ; Franklin Oliver Johnson, Jr., born February 9, 1898, 
 Columbus Barracks, Ohio. 
 
 123 
 
Major, 17th U. S. Infantry. Station: Fort McPher- 
 son, Georgia. 
 
 War and Field Service: Sioux campaign, 1890 and 
 1891 ; Philippine insurrection, September 17, 1900, to close of 
 same, principally in Laguna Province, Philippine Islands; 
 also one expedition around Lake Lanao in 1904. 
 
 Special Duty: Regimental Quartermaster, September 
 16, 1893, to June, 1895, and Regimental Adjutant, June, 1895, 
 to September 16, 1897; Aide to Brigadier General George M. 
 Randall, U. S. Volunteers, from August 12, 1898, to April 
 21, 1899; Regimental Quartermaster from September 9, 1901, 
 to October 16, 1902; detailed Quartermaster from December 
 29, 1902, to December 29, 1906; Chief Quartermaster, Depart- 
 ment of Mindanao, from July 5, 1903, to February 1, 1905; 
 graduate. Torpedo School, Willets Point, New York, 1890: 
 graduate, Army School of the Line, Fort Leavenworth, 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born Februaiy 26, 1865, at Cam- 
 den, Wilcox County, Alabama. Married Mrs. Florence 
 Myrick Elliott (nee Myrick) of San Francisco, California, 
 August 19, 1891. Children: Edward Xathaniel Jones, III, 
 born June 21, 1897, at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. 
 
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shrank (^nm Kalk 
 
 1st Lieutenant^ 5th U. S. Infantry. 
 Died March 5, 1898; Aged 33. 
 
 Kalk will be remembered by his classmates as the smiling, 
 genial "Fritz," who, although originally a member of '85, cast 
 all his interests with '86, when he joined them in June of the 
 latter year, and remained a loj'^al and faithful member of the 
 greatest class that ever left West Point. 
 
 Kalk was appointed to the Academy from Wisconsin, 
 and upon graduation was promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 5th 
 Infantry. He joined at Fort Meade, South Dakota, and 
 from there went to Fort Snelling in March, 1891. After a 
 short tour of duty at the latter post he entered the class at the 
 Infantry and Cavalry School in September, 1891, and was 
 graduated therefrom in June, 1893. He was promoted 1st 
 Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, July 4, 1892, but transferred back 
 to his old regiment on August 12th of the same year. He 
 followed his course at Fort Leavenworth with a tour of duty 
 at Rock Island Arsenal from October, 1893, until July, 1894. 
 Garrison duty at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, and 
 Fort McPherson, Georgia, filled the years until 1897, when he 
 was appointed Professor of JNIilitary Science and Tactics at 
 the Iowa Wesleyan University of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on 
 July 5, 1897. On March 5, 1898, he was on a visit to the 
 latter town, and on attempting to board a freight train to 
 return to the University, he was run over and instantl}^ killed. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
 127 
 
I|?nrg ©lag Knm 
 
 Captain, U. S. Army, retired. Address: Livermore 
 Road, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Retired January 4, 
 1906. 
 
 War and Field Service: Campaign of Santiago, 1898, 
 participating in attack on Fort San Juan and siege of city of 
 Santiago. Served in Philippines, 1901 and 1902. 
 
 Since September 16, 1906, employed by the Treasury 
 Department as an accountant at the Custom House, Boston, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Personal History: Born March 20, 1863, at Peru, 
 South America. Married Mary F. Lovett, August 26, 1886, 
 Chelsea, Massachusetts. Children: Alice Lovett Keene, 
 born October 9, 1889, Xewton, Massachusetts. Married 
 Frank LeGrange Hadden, July 31, 1908, at Providence, 
 Rhode Island. Residence, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. 
 
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^nhnitk (Hinrk Kimball 
 
 1st Lieutenant^ 5th U. S. Infantry. 
 Died September 11, 1898; Aged 34. 
 
 Who among us can forget dear old "Yank" Kimball? 
 Quiet, unassuming, gentle-mannered, the type physically and 
 mentally of the New Englander, he went through four years 
 with us without being remarkable in any way except for plain 
 duty well and faithfully done. And yet for all his quiet ways, 
 I do not believe that any one of us has forgotten him, or can 
 fail to believe that, had he lived through the stirring days in 
 Cuba and the Philippines, he would have done his full duty in 
 his own unassuming way. 
 
 U23on graduation Kimball was promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 
 5th Infantry, and at the end of his graduation leave joined 
 at Fort Bliss, Texas. Here he served from June, 1888, until 
 March, 1891, leaving the post to take the position of Professor 
 of Military Science and Tactics at Norwich University, North- 
 field, Vermont. On April 4, 1893, he was promoted 1st Lieu- 
 tenant, 4th Infantry, and transferred back to his old regiment, 
 the 5th Infantry, on July 10th of the same year. He was ap- 
 pointed Regimental Quartermaster on September 21, 1893, 
 and joined at St. Francis Barracks, Florida. In October, 
 1894, he went with his regiment to Fort McPherson, Georgia, 
 where he died September 11, 1898, of peritonitis. 
 
 To the casual reader this record means but little; to his 
 classmates it means that every duty, however small, was faith- 
 fully performed, that every trial, however severe, was bravely 
 
 130 
 
met, that all who knew him well were better for their associa- 
 tion with him, 
 
 "For he could wait and not be tired of waiting, 
 
 Or being lied about, dealt in no lies ; 
 Or being hated, ne'er gave way to hating. 
 
 And never looked too good nor talked too wise." 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Albert i^ratur Kmsk^m 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Commissary General, Sub- 
 sistence Department. Station: San Francisco, California. 
 After April 5, 1911, Manila, Philippine Islands. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major, Commissary of Subsist- 
 ence (Act July 7, 1898), July 22, 1898, to February 2, 1899. 
 Major, Commissary of Subsistence, October 19, 1900, to 
 March 22, 1901. Resigned June 8, 1887; reappointed April 
 14, 1891. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 2, 1861, Monee, 
 Illinois. Married Estella A. Wheeler, July 1, 1886, Hast- 
 ings, Michigan. Children: Lewis Thayer Kniskern, born 
 June 11, 1887 (Ann Arbor, 1910) ; Philip Wheeler Kniskern, 
 born March 25, 1889 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1911). 
 
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Armani iaiJior? Haasdgn^ 
 
 Major, 5th U. S. Infantry. Station: Plattsburg Bar- 
 racks, New York. 
 
 War and Fiei-d Service : Spanish- American War, first 
 expedition to Phihppine Islands ; campaign against Philippine 
 insnrgents; Indian campaign against Sioux, 1890-91. 
 
 Personal History: Born April 4, 1861, at Thibodeaux, 
 Louisiana. Married Katherine Moore Dowling, October 17, 
 1889, New Orleans, Louisiana. Children: Myrtle Louise 
 Lasseigne, born August 28, 1890, Camp Pilot Butte, Rock 
 Springs, Wyoming; Francis Maynard Lasseigne, born jNIay 
 1, 1892, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
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Major, 16th Infantry. Station: University of Califor- 
 nia, Berkeley, California. 
 
 War and Field Service: Campaign in Cuba, 1898 — 
 El Caney and Santiago; Philippine insurrection — Guade- 
 loupe ; taking of Pasig. 
 
 Special Duty : Adjutant, 20th Infantry, May 24, 1898, 
 to October 2, 1901, and December 1, 1904, to September 16, 
 1908. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 10, 1863, New 
 Albany, Indiana. Married Harriet R. Balding, June 12, 
 1888, Evanston, Illinois. Children: Henry Balding Lewis, 
 born May 8, 1889, Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island (cadet, third 
 class, U. S. Military Academy) ; Aledaide Palmer Lewis, born 
 July 22, 1895, Greencastle, Indiana; Thomas Edward Lewis, 
 born October 16, 1898, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
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OIl|arl^0 dwrgr ICgman 
 
 First Lieutenant, Cavalry. Retired May 23, 1896. 
 Address: Pacific Union Club, San Francisco, California. 
 
 War and Field Service: In 1887 was engaged in 
 Indian campaign at Crow Agency, Montana, which campaign 
 is designated as one entitling participants to medal for "Indian 
 campaigns." 
 
 Volunteer Service : During the earthquake and fire of 
 April, 1906, in San Francisco, was member of committee 
 appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco, California, to look 
 after affairs of the city, and was member of committee for 
 restoration of light. In April and May, 1908, was placed on 
 dut}^ by General Funston as assistant to Major Mclver, U. S. 
 Army, who had charge of the relief district in the Golden Gate 
 Park. 
 
 Special Duty: Served as Aide-de-Camp to General 
 Thomas H. linger, U. S. A., from October, 1891, to October, 
 1895. 
 
 Civil Life: Assistant Marine Superintendent, Army 
 Transport Service, San Francisco, California, 1899-1902. 
 General Manager Metropolitan Light and Power Company, 
 San Francisco, California, 1902 to present time. Member of 
 the First Class by inheritance of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States, District of Columbia Commandery. 
 
 Personal History: Born August 21, 1861, Xew York 
 City. Married Edith A. E. Clarke, June 25, 1890, San Fran- 
 cisco, California. Children: Edmunds Lyman, born Sep- 
 tember 19, 1891, San Francisco, California. 
 
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Major, U. S. Army. Retired October 31, 1908. Address: 
 1400 North Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 War axu Field Service : Indian trips, Utah and Colo- 
 rado, 1886-87; Sioux trips, South Dakota, 1890-91; Santiago, 
 1898; Santa Cruz, Laguna de Bay, Manila suburbs, Santalon, 
 BocBoc, Sanpaloc, Calamba, Lipa, Bigaa, San Jose, San 
 Tomas, Batangas, 1899-1902 — a few minor scraps. 
 
 Special Duty: Succession college duty at Pennsylvania 
 State College, 1892-96; at Delaware State College, 1904-07; 
 at St. Joseph's, 1908-10. 
 
 Personal History: Born August 30, 1863, Lancaster, 
 Pennsylvania. Married Kate Agnes Kennedy, June 16, 1886, 
 Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Children: Mary Ellen McCas- 
 key, born March 29, 1887, Fort Duchesne, Utah; John Piersol 
 McCaskey, born August 14, 1888, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 
 (2nd Lieutenant Cavalry) ; Hugh Kennedy McCaskej% born 
 March 31, 1890, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Katherine Asa 
 McCaskey, born November 20, 1893, State College, Pennsyl- 
 vania; Edward William McCaskey, born June 10, 1892, Fort 
 Duchesne, Utah; Richard Douglas McCaskey, born Septem- 
 ber 2, 1895, State College, Pennsylvania; Walter Bogardus 
 McCaskey, born April 30, 1897, Plattsburg, New York; Don- 
 ald Dewey McCaskey, born May 21, 1898, Plattsburg, New 
 York; Thomas Clenard McCaskey, born August 4, 1904, Lan- 
 caster, Pennsylvania. Married children: Mary Ellen Mc- 
 Caskey, married to Maurice Joseph Long, of Camden, New 
 Jersey, June 16, 1909. Grandchildren: Maurice Joseph 
 Long, Jr., born October 5, 1910. 
 
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Jmnk iirintgr^ 
 
 Colonel, Assistant to Chief, Bvireau of Insular Affairs, 
 War Department. Station: Washington, D. C. 
 
 War and Field Service : Commanded company in 
 Porto Rican campaign. Regimental Adjutant and Adjutant 
 General, District of Cebu, Philippine Islands, 1899 to 1902. 
 In various fights and skirmishes on Island of Cebu. 
 
 Special Duty: Aide-de-Camp to Major General J. J. 
 Coppinger, commanding 4th Army Corps, June 13 to July 20, 
 
 1898. With Regiment, Porto Rican expedition. Aide-de- 
 Camp to Major General Guy V. Henry, commanding- 
 Department of Porto Rico, December 21, 1898, to May 5, 
 
 1899. With Regiment in Philippines, August, 1899, to June, 
 1902. Member of General Staff from its organization to 
 April 20, 1905. Assistant to Chief, Bureau of Insular Affairs, 
 April 20, 190.5, to date. 
 
 Personal History: Born January 5, 1865, Montgom- 
 ery, Alabama. Married Marie Dennett, July 12, 1892, Dal- 
 las, Texas. Children : James Dennett Mclntyre, born April 
 9, 1893, West Point, Xew York; Frank JSIcIntyre, born Sep- 
 tember 30, 1895, Detroit, Michigan; Edward Mclntyre, born 
 October 3, 1899, Louisville, Kentucky; Marie Dufilho Mcln- 
 tyre, born September 13, 1905, Washington, D. C; Margaret 
 Dennett Mclntyre, born May 3, 1908, Washington, D. C; 
 Nora Mclntyre, born February 11, 1911, Washington, D. C. 
 
 143 
 
Major, 6th Field Artillery; from March 23, 1911, Major, 
 General Staff. Station: Washington, D. C. 
 
 War and Field Service: With siege train, 5th Artil- 
 lery Corps, Tampa; with 2nd Brigade, Provisional Division, 
 5th Artillery Corps, Tamj^a; with 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 
 4th Artillery Corps and Cavalry Brigade, 7th Artillery Corps, 
 Himtsville, Alabama; with 31st Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, in 
 Philippine Islands, November 28, 1899, to August 25, 1901 ; 
 in command subdistrict of Collobatto, Philippine Islands. 
 
 Voi>UNTEER Service: Captain and Assistant Adjutant 
 General, May 12, 1898, to June 13, 1899; served as Adjutant 
 General of Infantry and Cavalry Brigades and as Adjutant 
 General, Department of Puerto Principe, Cuba; at Tampa, 
 Huntsville, and in Cuba, Major, 31st Infantry, U. S. Volun- 
 teers, July 5, 1899, to June 18, 1901; service in Philippine 
 Islands, on Island of Mindanao. 
 
 Special Duty: Instructor, U. S. Military Academy; 
 Aide-de-Camp to Major General A. McD. McCook, U. S. 
 Army; Acting Chief Signal Officer, and Inspector S. A. Prac- 
 tice and Chief Ordnance Officer, Department of Colorado; 
 member of Board for Preparation of Drill Regiments for 
 Rapid-fire Field Guns ; member and President, Field Artillery 
 Board; member and President, Field Artillery Examining 
 Board; General Staff. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 8, 1860, Buffalo, 
 New York. Married Caroline Pugsley Bache, May 12, 1888, 
 Fort Riley, Kansas. Children: Caroline Bache McMahon, 
 born February 17, 1889, Fort Adams, Rhode Island; John 
 Eugene McMahon, Jr., born September 11, 1890, West Point, 
 New York (cadet, third class, U. S. jNIilitary Academy) ; 
 Esther Dallas McMahon, born March 26, 1893, Pasadena, 
 California; Dallas Bache McMahon, born December 5, 1895, 
 Fort McHenry, Indiana (died at Fort Ethan Allen, May 24, 
 1903). 
 
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Jam^a ^tnv^ MMnt 
 
 Major, 13th Infantry. Station: Washington, D. C; 
 on duty at Army War College since June 15, 1910. 
 
 War and Field Service: In Santiago campaign as 
 Adjutant, 3rd Infantry, and as Assistant Adjutant General, 
 1st Brigade, Bote's Provisional Division; in Philippine cam- 
 paign, with 3rd Infantry in the field, from March, 1899, to 
 March, 1902 — in command of a battalion for most of the time. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 24, 1863, Lumber 
 City, Georgia. Married Florence Stouch, daughter of the 
 late Lieutenant Colonel George W. H. Stouch, December 14, 
 1887, at Fort Shaw, Montana. Children: Donald JNIarion 
 McRae, born November 18, 1892, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota 
 (member of the present fourth class. West Point, Xew York) ; 
 Dorothy McRae, born April 5, 1894, at Fort Snelling, Min- 
 nesota; Mildred JNIcRae, born December 17, 1900, at Manila, 
 Philippine Islands. 
 
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No photograph obtainable 
 
 Resigned July 3, 1894. Address and civil history un- 
 known. The following data are taken from Cullum's Register: 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 15th Infantry, July 1, 1886. 
 
 Served on frontier duty at Fort Buford, North Dakota, 
 October 2, 1886. 
 
 Military History: Served: as 2nd Lieutenant, loth 
 Infantry, at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, from August 14, 1890, 
 to October 30, 1893; in charge of Indian prisoners captured at 
 Wounded Knee from January 27 to March 22, 1891; in com- 
 mand of camp at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, August, 1893. 
 
 1st Lieutenant of Infantry, 15th Infantry, October 30, 
 1893; transferred to 2nd Infantry December 13, 1893; served 
 at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, until July 5, 1894. 
 
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©lyarl^H Sliomaa iHrnoI^^r 
 
 Major, 1st Field Artillery. Station: Manila, Philip- 
 pine Islands. 
 
 Volunteer Service : Served as Aide to Brigadier Gen- 
 eral of Volunteers in the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th Corps dur- 
 ing war with Spain, but had no volunteer rank. 
 
 Special Duty: Served as Adjutant General, Separate 
 Brigade Provost Guard, Manila, Philippine Islands, and as 
 Adjutant General to the Provost Marshal General, Manila, 
 from June 20, 1899, to July 1, 1901; General Staff from its 
 organization to June 1, 1907; Provost Marshal, Army of 
 Cuban Pacification, October 9 to November 27, 1906. 
 
 Personal History: Born March 20, 1862, Johnstown, 
 Pennsylvania. Married Xannie Wilhelmina Pearson, daugh- 
 ter of army officer, October 10, 1889, at Presidio, San Fran- 
 cisco, California. Children: Charles Clifford Menoher, born 
 February 19, 1891, at Governors Island, Xew York; Pearson 
 Menoher, born Xovember 14, 1892, Fortress JMonroe, Vir- 
 ginia (enters West Point, June, 1911); Darrow Menoher, 
 born January 30, 1896, St. Augustine, Florida; William 
 Menoher, born August 31, 1910, Columbus Barracks, Ohio. 
 
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B'^marli Matt 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 10th U. S. Cavalry. 
 Killed by an Apache Indian, March 11, 1887; Aged 26. 
 
 None of us will forget the shock of the news that Mott 
 had been killed at San Carlos by an Apache Indian, only a 
 few short months after he joined his regiment. He entered 
 the Academy with the Class of '85, but joined us in July, 1882, 
 and was graduated with us in June, 1886. He was commis- 
 sioned as additional 2nd Lieutenant, 6th Cavalry, but a week 
 later obtained his vacancy as 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th 
 Cavalry. At the end of his graduation leave he joined his 
 regiment at San Carlos, Arizona, where the Apaches that had 
 made so much trouble in past years were collected under 
 charge of the troops. A number of these Indians had been 
 detailed to construct a large irrigating ditch, and Mott was 
 one of the officers in charge of the work. During its progress 
 he had occasion to discipline an Indian, and the latter's son 
 apparently resented the punishment dealt out to his father. 
 While Mott was engaged in directing some particular work 
 the boy drew a revolver and shot Mott, who, being unarmed, 
 attempted to escape. The boy shot again, and this time the 
 bullet penetrated the kidney. On the same afternoon Mott 
 passed away, conscious to the last and facing death cour- 
 ageously. 
 
 It is the custom, when writing of the dead, to say nothing 
 but good, but in writing of Mott's death it seems impossible to 
 say the right thing. Who among us does not remember him 
 as the gentle-mannered, generous companion, always ready 
 
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with a joke, always eager to do some kindly act? There was 
 nothing brilliant about him; but one thinks of him always as 
 a true and steadfast friend, as a classmate in the real sense of 
 the word. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
 153 
 
®I|nma0 l^ntbg Matt 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Field Artiller3\ Station: Amer- 
 ican Embassy, Paris. 
 
 War and Field Service: Campaign ending in taking 
 of Manila from the Spaniards, August 13, 1898. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Captain and Assistant Adjutant 
 General, May 12, 1898; Major and Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
 eral, November 10, 1898. Honorable discharge, June 13, 
 1899. 
 
 Special Duty: Aide-de-Camp to JNIajor General Wes- 
 ley Merritt; Military Attache at Paris; Military Attache at 
 St. Petersburg during Russo-Japanese War; Adjutant Gen- 
 eral, Department of Havana, for first six months of American 
 occupation of Cuba. 
 
 Personal History: Born Leesburg, Virginia, 1865. 
 
Major of Cavalry. Station: Zamboanga, Philippine 
 Islands. 
 
 Campaign and Field Service: China Relief Expedi- 
 tion (as 1st Lieutenant, 6th Cavalry, Acting Regimental 
 Adjutant). 
 
 Special Duty: Secretary of the Moro Province since 
 March 26, 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born May 25, 1864, Liberty, Illi- 
 nois. Married Maie Rowand, October 25, 1887, Barry, Illi- 
 nois. Children: Curtis Iloppin Nance, born August 12, 
 1888, at Barry, Illinois (Hitchcock Military Academy, San 
 Rafael, California; University of California; U. S. Military 
 Academy, present status, cadet, first class, the first son of '86 
 to graduate from the Academy) ; Edith Gray Nance, born 
 October 23, 1905, at Berkeley, California. 
 
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Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. 
 Station: 5816 Rippey Street, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Personal History: Born Upton, Franklin County, 
 Pennsylvania. Married Rebecca Elizabeth Kosier, December 
 29, 1886, Byron, Illinois. Children: Harry Sidney New- 
 comer, born October 16, 1887, Willets Point, New York Har- 
 bor (University of Wisconsin) ; Francis Kosier Newcomer, 
 born September 14, 1889, Byron, Illinois (U. S. ^lilitary 
 Academy, Class of 1913) ; David Albert Newcomer, born 
 March 29, 1899, Memphis, Tennessee. 
 
 159 
 
Mmt& iEug^n? Nnlan 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Cavalry. 
 Died December 5, 1898; Aged 38. 
 
 In the opinion of the writer, dear old "Paddy" Nolan's 
 career at the Academy offers the best proof that a man is 
 judged there solely by what he is and what he makes of him- 
 self. Of humble origin and with only slight educational 
 advantages, he grew day by day in his classmates' respect and 
 affection, and by his rugged honesty of character won a high 
 place in the opinion of all who came in contact with him. 
 
 On graduation he was assigned to the 4th Cavalry, and 
 in October joined his regiment in Arizona. The next four 
 years he spent in hard and rough work in the territory, scouting 
 much of the time and spending little time in garrison. In 
 May, 1890, he accompanied his regiment to the Presidio, San 
 Francisco, and at this station he passed the next eight years, 
 being absent on detached service for considerable periods of 
 time at the different National Parks in the State. He was 
 promoted 1st Lieutenant, 10th Cavalry, July 26, 1893, and 
 was transferred to his old regiment on September 10, 1894. 
 He was made Regimental Quartermaster June 5, 1898. 
 Early in December of the same year he was taken ill with pneu- 
 monia and died after a short illness on December 5, 1898. 
 
 The following regimental order w^as published at his 
 
 death : 
 
 Headquarters 4th U. S. Cavalry, 
 Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., 
 
 December 8, 1898. 
 General Orders, No. 9. 
 
 It becomes the painful duty of the Regimental Com- 
 mander to announce the death of 1st Lieutenant James E. 
 
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Nolan, Quartermaster of the Regiment, at the Presidio of San 
 Francisco, California, of pneumonia, on the 5th instant. 
 
 In the death of Lieutenant Nolan the Regiment has lost 
 one of its most efficient, zealous and dearly-beloved officers; 
 his host of friends, a loyal and generous-hearted conu-ade; his 
 children, a devoted and affectionate father; and his grief- 
 stricken wife, a happy, true, noble and loving husband. 
 
 Lieutenant Nolan's devotion to duty; his punctuality in 
 executing, without question, without hesitation, with the fullest 
 measure of obedience and with the most intelligent compre- 
 hension, not only the letter, but also the spirit, of the orders of 
 his superiors; his executive ability and his successful command 
 of those placed under his charge and leadership, characterized 
 him as a most exemplary soldier, both in instinct and in action. 
 
 Through his sympathetic nature, his pure integrity, and 
 his high moral worth, he will live forever in the hearts of those 
 he has left behind. 
 
 To his bereaved famih^ the officers of the Regiment unite 
 in expressing their most heartfelt sympathy and condolence. 
 
 The officers of the Regiment will wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for the period of thirty days. 
 
 By order of Lieutenant Colonel Wagner : 
 
 Floyd W. Harris, 
 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 4th Cavalry. 
 
 Headquarters 4th Cavalry, 
 Fort Meade, South Dakota, 
 
 November 15, 1910. 
 The foregoing is a true copy. 
 (Sgd.) James S. Parker, 
 Captain and Adjutant, 4th Cavalry. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
 IGl 
 
Mn&an Hatij^ma patrtrk 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers. Station: Nor- 
 folk, Virginia. 
 
 War and Field Service : Chief Engineer Officer, Army 
 of Cuban Pacification, in Cuba, 1907-09. 
 
 Personal History: Born December 13, 1863, Lewis- 
 burg, West Virginia. Married Grace Webster Cooley, No- 
 vember 11, 1902, at Plainfield, New Jersey. Children: 
 Bream Cooley Patrick, three years old. 
 
 163 
 
Jultufi Augustus J^^ttu 
 
 Major, 12th U. S. Infantry. Station: Fort William 
 McKinley, Rizal Province, Philippine Islands. 
 
 War and Field Service: Expedition in New Mexico 
 after runaway Jicirrilla Indians, September-October, 1886; 
 expedition in Xew jNIexico after runaway Mescalero Apaches, 
 August, 1887; in the Philippines, General Lawton's Northern 
 Expedition, October-Xovember, 1899; with General ]Mc- 
 Arthin*'s advance on Dagupan, Bautista to Dagupan, Xoveni- 
 ber, 1899; with General S. B. M. Young's Expedition, Xorth- 
 ern Luzon, Xovember-December, 1899, rescuing over 2000 
 Spanish officers and soldiers and Lieutenant J. C. Gilmore, 
 U. S. Xavy, and twenty-five other Americans from the insur- 
 gents; in actions Tanguadan Mountain, December 4-5, 1899, 
 Bandi, December 8, Banna Canyon, December 9, Gaset, De- 
 cember 16, and rescue of Gilmore, December 18, 1899; took 
 part in suppressing outbreak in Ilocos, Xorte Province, April, 
 1900. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Captain and Assistant Quarter- 
 master, U. S. Volunteers, May 12 to Xovember 30, 1898 5 
 Quartermaster of General Hawkins' Provisional Brigade; 
 Quartermaster, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps; Quartermaster, 
 1st Brigade, Provisional Division, oth Corps; Quartermaster, 
 3rd Division, 4th Corps, at Tampa, Florida, to July 10, 1898; 
 Quartermaster in charge loading transports. Port Tampa, to 
 July 26, 1898; Major, 34th U. S. Infantry Volunteers, July 
 .5, 1899, to April 17, 1901; Major Penn's battalion of the 34th 
 U. S. Infantry Volunteers, organized at Fort Logan, Colorado, 
 and composed of men from Arizona, Xew Mexico, and Colo- 
 rado; it arrived at ^Manila, October 11, 1899, the first battalion 
 of U. S. Volunteers organized in the United States to arrive 
 at Manila, and served with great credit in the subsequent cam- 
 paigns. 
 
 Special Duty : With troops opening new lands in Okla- 
 homa to settlement, 1889-91-92; on quartermaster and com- 
 
 165 
 
missaiy duties and in charge pack trains, Bannock Expedition, 
 1895; with regiment, strike troubles, Butte, Montana, 1894; 
 in addition to regimental duties was military instructor, Omaha 
 High School, 1893-96; Quartermaster, 2nd Infantry, June, 
 1896, to July, 1897; Adjutant, 2nd Infantry, July, 1897, to 
 May, 1898; Assistant Instructor Tactics, U. S. Military Acad- 
 emy, October, 1898, to July, 1899; Acting Inspector General, 
 5th District, Northern Luzon, September, 1900, to February, 
 1901 ; commanding battalion 7th Infantry, Samar troubles, 
 March, 1902; Adjutant General, 6th Separate Brigade, Samar 
 and Leyte, April to June, 1902; Adjutant, 7th Infantry, Sep- 
 tember, 1903, to November 17, 1904; Captain and Aide-de- 
 Camp to Major General Henry C. Corbin, November 17, 
 1904, to April 24, 1906; Inspector, Small Arms Practice, 
 Philippine Division, 1904-06; Lieutenant Colonel and Military 
 Secretary to Lieutenant General Corbin, April 24, 1906, to 
 September 15, 1906; Captain, General Staff, September 17, 
 1906, to August 10, 1909; Chief of Staff to Brigadier General 
 Wint, commanding base of operations, Newport News, Vir- 
 ginia, October, 1906; Assistant Instructor, Army War Col- 
 lege, 1906-07; Inspecting Military Schools and Colleges, 
 April, May, 1907, 1908, 1909; Acting Adjutant General, 
 Department of Luzon, April-May, 1910; Acting Adjutant 
 General, Fort McKinley, Philippine Islands, May-June, 
 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born February 19, 1865, Mattoon, 
 Coles County, Illinois. 
 
 166 
 
Brigadier General. Station: Zamboanga, Philippine 
 Islands. (Commanding Department of Mindanao and Gov- 
 ernor of the Moro Province.) 
 
 War and Field Service: In field as 2nd Lieutenant, 
 6th Cavalry, with squadron under Captain Kendall in pur- 
 suit of Geronimo's band of Apaches, October, 1886; on many 
 small scouts and expeditions in New Mexico and Arizona, 
 1886-90; participated in Sioux campaign. South Dakota, 1890- 
 91 ; in field commanding company of Sioux scouts. Pine Ridge, 
 January- August, 1891 ; in field in Montana and Idaho as 1st 
 Lieutenant commanding Troop D, 10th Cavalry; rounded up 
 and deported to Canada 600 renegade Kree Indians, June- 
 August, 1896; with 10th Cavalry in Santiago campaign, as 1st 
 Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, May- August, 
 1898; participated in battle of San Juan Hill and subsequent 
 siege of Santiago; Adjutant General imder General Kobbe in 
 the campaign of Northern JNIindanao, December, 1900, to 
 March, 1901 ; in field commanding numerous expeditions 
 against hostile Moros around Lake Lanao, Mindanao, April, 
 1902, to May, 1903; with mixed commands composed of all 
 arms, varying in strength from a battalion to a brigade; prin- 
 cipal battles — Lake Butig, September, 1902; JNIaciu, Septem- 
 ber, 1902; Bacolod and Calahui, April, 1903; Taraca River, 
 May, 1903; marched around Lake Lanao with continuous 
 fighting, May, 1903. 
 
 Special Duty: Acting Aide to General Miles, Decem- 
 ber, 1896, to June, 1897; Instructor of Tactics, West Point, 
 June, 1897, to April, 1898; Chief of Bureau of Insular Af- 
 fairs, August, 1898, to September, 1899; General Staff, 
 August, 1903, to September, 1906; Military Attache, Tokyo, 
 Japan, March, 1905, to September, 1906; with General 
 Kuroki's army in Manchuria, March-September, 1905. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major and Chief Ordnance Offi- 
 cer, August, 1898, to May, 1899; Major and Assistant Adju- 
 
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tant General, June, 1899, to June, 1901 ; Adjutant General, 
 Department of Mindanao and Jolo, until June 30, 1901. 
 
 National Guard: Commandant of Cadets, State Uni- 
 versity, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1891-95; Colonel and Aide-de- 
 Camp on Staff of Governor Crounce of Nebraska, 1893-95. 
 
 Personal History: Born September 13, 1860, Laclede, 
 Linn Count\% Missouri. Married at Washington, D. C, to 
 Helen Frances Warren, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, January 26, 
 1905. Children: Helen Elizabeth Pershing, born at Tokyo, 
 Japan, September 8, 1906; Anne Pershing, born at Camp 
 John Hay, Benguet Province, Philippine Islands, March 25, 
 1908; Francis Warren Pershing, born at Cheyenne, Wyo- 
 ming, June 24, 1909. 
 
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(flolmU? iHntt irtttt 
 
 2xD Lieutenant, 8th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 Died December 30, 1890; Aged 2.5. 
 
 All that is known of Pettit's career can be said in a few 
 words. Owing to the loss of the records of the regiment in 
 which he served, no information could be obtained of him dur- 
 ing the four years that elapsed between his graduation and 
 death. He joined the 8th Infantry on October 1, 1886, and 
 remained with it until he died, December 30, 1890. His class- 
 mates will remember him as almost the babe of his class; 
 indeed, he had hardly reached to man's estate when death called 
 him away. Everybody liked the good-looking boy who tried 
 to be wicked like a real grown-up man and who could never 
 be anj^thing but attractive, in spite of his efforts to be bad. 
 Peace to his ashes, cut off in the flower of his youth! 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
 173 
 
Major, 22nd Infantiy, Station: Fort Sam Houston, 
 Texas. 
 
 War and Field Service: Campaign in Porto Rico, 
 1898, and Philippine insurrection, 1899-1902; in actions at 
 Guanica, Porto Rico, July 25, Hormigueros, Porto Rico, Aug- 
 ust 10, 1898, Guin-Tabuan, Negros, Philippine Islands, Octo- 
 ber 1, 1899; engaged in numerous minor expeditions in Phil- 
 ippine Islands, 1899-1902; on field service in Samar, Philip- 
 pine Islands, May to December, 1905. 
 
 Special Duty: Distinguished graduate. Infantry and 
 Cavalry School, 1893; with Bureau of Information at Tampa 
 and Key West, Florida, Santiago de Cuba, and Porto Rico, 
 May, June and July, 1898. Instructor, Department of Mod- 
 ern Languages, U. S. Military Academy, 1903-05; Army War 
 College, 1909. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 22, 1863, Center, Ala- 
 bama. Married Addie Johnson Carleton, June 20, 1888, 
 Salem, Massachusetts. Children: Katharine Hale Poore, 
 born July 25, 1889, Fort Sully, South Dakota; Priscilla Carle- 
 ton Poore, born February 4, 1896, Fort Thomas, Kentucky; 
 Adelaide Carleton Poore, born December 29, 1899, Fort Sam 
 Houston, Texas. Married children : Katharine Hale Poore ; 
 married 2nd Lieutenant Joseph O. Mauborgne, 6th Infantry 
 (now 1st Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry), at Missoula, Montana, 
 December 3, 1907; now residing at Fort Leavenworth, Kan- 
 sas. Grandchildren: Joseph O. Mauborgne, Jr., born Octo- 
 ber 22, 1908, at Fort Missoula, Montana. 
 
 175 
 
Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers. Station: St. 
 Louis, Missouri. 
 
 War and Field Service: In action in and around 
 Manila and Iloilo; bearer of dispatches and representative of 
 General Otis between Manila and the troops in Iloilo, Cebu, 
 and Jolo. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Lieutenant Colonel and Chief 
 Engineer, 8th Army Corps, from June 24, 1898, to September 
 2, 1899; service with 8th Army Corps at Manila in Spanish 
 War and Philippine insurrection with Generals Merritt and 
 Otis. 
 
 Special Duty: Engineer, 3rd Lighthouse District, 
 foiu' years, 1906-10; in charge of manufacturing establishment 
 of the liighthouse Service; Auditor Philippine Islands, 1898- 
 1899. 
 
 Personal History: Born January 24, 1864, Lisbon 
 Falls, Maine. Married Mrs. Sophie H. Xichols, February 
 15, 1905, Montgomery, Alabama. Children: One stepchild, 
 Caralisa Nichols, born June 19, 1892. 
 
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Uobrrt (^nhn Jrortor 
 
 2xD Lieutenant, U. S. A., Retired. 
 Died May 10, 1891; Aged 32. 
 
 Proctor's obituary must needs be a brief one, for hardly 
 had he begun his career in the Army than the disease which 
 had threatened him so long took serious hold and he was forced 
 to return to his home, there to await the last simmions. On 
 graduation he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Artil- 
 lery, and he served with that regiment until JNIarch, 1887, 
 when he was forced to take a sick leave, which lasted imtil his 
 death, INIay 10, 1891. This period was passed at his home in 
 Aubin'u, Kentucky, where he quietly awaited the call of the 
 white plague that had shattered his life. So far removed was 
 he from his old associations in the Army that his existence had 
 apparently been forgotten by the War Department; for, 
 strange to say, his retirement bore date of June 15, 1891, 
 nearly a month after he had obeyed the order of a higher 
 power. 
 
 We all remember Proctor as the quiet, conscientious 
 cadet who at times inciuTcd the enmity of his companions by 
 his strict ideas of duty and his Puritanical sense of the respon- 
 sibility of a cadet officer ; but now after twenty-five years, when 
 our heads have grown wiser and grayer, who can say that our 
 dead comrade was not honest in his conception of his duty and 
 loyal to the best traditions of the Academy? We all remem- 
 ber how patiently he bore the jokes that were sometimes played 
 upon him; just as patiently as he later bore the long years of 
 illness and faced death at the last, when.it came at the very 
 outset of his career. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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•amu^l ^^tbn 
 
 Major, Signal Corps. Station: Headquarters Depart- 
 ment of the East, Governors Island, New York. 
 
 War and Field Service: In field against Apaches, 
 1887; Porto Rican campaign, 1898; actions — landing at 
 Giianica and Aibonito. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Major and Assistant Adjutant 
 General, May 12 to June 4, 1898; Major, Signal Officer, June 
 4 to Juh^ 27, 1898; Lieutenant Colonel, Chief Signal Officer, 
 July 27, 1898, to April 17, 1899; Captain, Signal Officer, April 
 17, 1899, to July 1, 1900; Cuba and Porto Rico. 
 
 Special Duty: Intercontinental Railway Commission 
 in Central America, 1891 to 1892; Johns Hopkins University, 
 1892 to 1894; Electrical Jury, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; 
 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, and Columbian Ex- 
 position, St. Louis, 1904; Military Secretary to the Com- 
 manding General of the Army, 1901 to 1903; General Staff, 
 1903 to 1907. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 16, 1864, St. Louis, 
 Missouri. Married Cecila S. Miles, January 10, 1900, Wash- 
 ington, D. C. Children: Miles Reber, born March 27, 1902, 
 Washington, D. C; Samuel Reber, Jr., born July 15, 1903, 
 Easthampton, New York. 
 
 181 
 
liieutenant Colonel, Corps of Kngineers. Station: — 
 Army War College, Washington, D. C. Under orders to 
 proceed to San Antonio, Texas, as Chief Engineer of Division. 
 
 War and Field Sj^kvice: Santiago, 1898. 
 
 Special Duty: Santiago campaign, 1898, and with 
 Army of Cuhan Pacification, 1907- 
 
 Personal History: Born October 18, 1863, Honghton, 
 Michigan. Children: Thomas H. Rees, Jr., born 1892 (cadet, 
 U. S. Military Academy) ; Dorothy Rees, born 1893; Helen 
 Rees, born 1897; Frances Rees, born 1900; Margaret Rees, 
 born 1901. 
 
 183 
 
Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers. Station: Detroit, 
 jNIichigan. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Colonel, 1st U. S. Volunteer In- 
 fantry, May 20, 1898, to October 28, 1898. 
 
 Special Duty: Mainlj^ on river and harbor and forti- 
 fication work; consulting engineer for the city of Galveston 
 in raising the grade of the city for protection against hurri- 
 canes. 
 
 Personal History: Born July 19, 1864, Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania. Children: Swift Riche, born June 22, 1890, 
 Detroit, Michigan (entered United States Xaval Academy 
 June, 1910) ; Weir Riche, born March 27, 1892, Detroit, JNIich- 
 igan (now at Naval Academy Preparatory School, Annapolis, 
 ^Nlarjdand ) . 
 
 I8.S 
 
Amna llan^arii i'ljatturk 
 
 Major, 25th Infantry. Station: Fort George Wright, 
 Sjjokane, Washington. 
 
 War and Field Service: Philippine Islands, July, 
 1899, to July, 1902. 
 
 Special Duty: Regimental Quartermaster, 25th Infan- 
 try, 1894-98 (Lieutenant), also 1901-05 (Captain); detailed 
 Quartermaster on dutj^ in office of Quartermaster General, 
 1908-08; on special duty at Tampa, Florida, December, 1908, 
 to April, 1909, as Assistant Quartermaster, receiving and dis- 
 tributing animals and transportation incident to return to the 
 United States of Army of Cuban Pacification; Construct- 
 ing Quartermaster, Fort Missoula, ^lontana, July, 1909, to 
 December, 1910. 
 
 Personal History: Born August 11, 1869, Manchester, 
 Xew Hampshire. ^larried Susan W. Cogswell, daughter of 
 Major Milton Cogswell, U. S. Army, at Plainfield, New 
 Jersey, August 21, 1894. Children: Amos Blanchard Shat- 
 tuck, Jr., born Xovember 25, 1896, Fort Missoula, Montana; 
 Susan Lane Shattuck, born September 27, 1898, Plainfield, 
 New Jersey; Milton Cogswell Shattuck, born March 23, 1901. 
 Manila, Philippine Islands. 
 
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Major (Infantry), Paymaster. Station: Headquar- 
 ters Department of California, San Francisco, California. 
 
 War and Field Service: In field, camp observation, 
 Cheyenne River, South Dakota, April, 1890, to August, 1890; 
 served in Philippines, March 10, 1899, to December 24, 1901, 
 as Adjutant General of Brigade and District and Separate 
 Brigade; recommended for brevet as JNIajor, U. S. Army, for 
 services in action near Papaya, Luzon, June 10, 1900. 
 
 Special Duty: On duty at Baker University as Profes- 
 sor of Military Science, March 20, 1894, to March 20, 1898; 
 iVide-de-Camp to Brigadier General Robert H. Hall, 1898; 
 Acting Assistant Adjutant General, General Hall's Brigade, 
 4th Corps, 1898; Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Farra- 
 ton's Brigade, 8th Corps, 1899-1901; Adjutant, 4th Infantry, 
 June 26, 1903, to December lo, 190.5; Paymaster by detail, 
 October, 1907. 
 
 Personal History: Born Xovember 18, 1864, Spring- 
 field, Missouri. Not married at present. Children: Dor- 
 othy Young Smith, born June 26, 1888, who married Edmund 
 Fitzgerald, Jr., January, 1910, Xew York. Residence, Troy, 
 New York. 
 
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Lieutenant Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps. Station: 
 (Commanding) Fort Casey, Washington. 
 
 War and Field Service: Captain, U. S. Volunteers, 
 U. S. Signal Corps, Santiago campaign, and on shore in the 
 field from Jime 21 to July 9, 1898; on last date carried into 
 hospital with yellow fever. 
 
 Voi-UNTEER Service: Captain and Signal Officer, May 
 20, 1898, accepted June 11; Major, July 18, accepted August 
 2, honorably discharged April 17, 1899; Captain, Signal 
 Office, April 17, accepted April 17, honorably discharged 
 May 7, 1901 ; served in Santiago campaign in Cuba, returned 
 to United States in August, 1898; served in Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts, mustering out Volunteers; assumed command of the 
 Signal Corps troops and depot at P'ort Myer, Virginia, in 
 December, 1898, and superintended building of Signal Corps 
 post and starting signal school at that place; left for Philip- 
 pines in November, 1900, and served there till August, 1901, 
 returning to the United States in summer of 1901. 
 
 Special Duty: Signal Corps Service, Santiago; duty 
 as Artillery District Adjutant (similar to Regimental Adju- 
 tant) ; Artillery District Adjutant, Artillery District of the 
 Potomac, 1906 to August, 1907- Took part in Sea Coast 
 Maneuvers ; inspected the National Guard, District of Colum- 
 bia, and the Virginia Military Institute. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 30, 1864, Richmond, 
 Virginia. Married Grace Elizabeth Allen, July, 1899, Brook- 
 lyn, New York. 
 
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(Umi ^Umuvt 
 
 Resigned from service, November 6, 1909. 
 
 War and Field Service: Philippine insurrection, 
 April, 1899, to October, 1901. 
 
 Civil Life: At present an "A.B." — i.e.. Artist and 
 Bohemian. 
 
 Remarks: Bachelor. 
 
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MtUmm ilarlag ^rnarn^ 
 
 Major, U. S. A., Retired. 
 Died October 24, 1909; Aged 50. 
 
 Swaine was born in the Army, being the son of the late 
 Brigadier General P. T. Swaine. He entered the Academy 
 with the Class of '85, and joined '86 in their plebe camp. Upon 
 graduation he was assigned to the •22nd Infantry, and served 
 principally at Fort Keogh, Montana, until September, 1891, 
 when he entered the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort 
 Leavenworth, graduating in 1893. He was promoted 1st 
 Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry, November 29, 1892, and went back 
 to his old regiment, the 22nd, in December of the same year. 
 He served with the Columbian Guard at the World's Fair, at 
 Chicago, from June to November, 1893, and then went back 
 to his old Montana stations. The breaking out of the Span- 
 ish-American War foimd him at Fort Crook, Nebraska, and 
 from there he accompanied his regiment to Mobile, and later 
 to Tampa. He went through the Santiago campaign, being 
 present at the El Caney and Santiago engagements. 
 
 He returned to the United States in September, 1898, and 
 was made Mustering Officer for the State of Nebraska. He was 
 promoted Captain, 22nd Infantry, March 2, 1899, and was 
 transferred to the 1st Infantry May 2nd of the same year. He 
 went to Cuba with his regiment and was stationed at Pinar 
 del Rio until June, 1900. From Cuba he went to the Philip- 
 pine Islands in August, 1900, and remained there until April, 
 1903, with the exception of a four months' leave, August- 
 December, 1902. 
 
 On his return to this country he remained at Fort Wayne, 
 Michigan, until he went back to the islands in February, 1906. 
 
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In June, 1908, he came back to the United States, broken in 
 health from his long tropical service. He was retired for dis- 
 ability incident to the service March 23, 1909, and went to live 
 at Los Nietos, California, where he died October 24, 1909. 
 
 Surely this is a record of arduous service quietly and effi- 
 ciently done, service in which he gave up his life for his coun- 
 try. He has no memorial tablet at West Point, but none the 
 less should his name be borne on the list of those who have laid 
 down their lives that the republic might live. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Artl|ur ©iyapr 
 
 Major of Cavalry. Station: Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 
 and in the field on the Mexican border at Minera, Texas. 
 
 War and Field Service: Marched from Fort Elliott, 
 Texas, to Fort Brown, Texas, July, 1887, to October, 1887; 
 Santiago campaign in Cuba, June, 1898, wounded in right 
 hip, Juh^ 1, 1898; returned to the United States with regi- 
 ment ; commanded Troop A, 3rd Cavalry, in Philippine insur- 
 rection, August, 1899, to June, 1901; Lawton and Young's 
 Northern campaign, 1899; in various fights, Asingan, Man- 
 goldan, San Tomas, Tangadin, and between Batac and Banna 
 in November and December, 1899; relief of Batac and several 
 fights near Batac in April, 1900; served with 3rd Cavalry in 
 Northern Luzon until June, 1901 ; promoted to 9th Cavalry as 
 Captain; commanded Troop E, 9th Cavalry, in Southern 
 Luzon, July, 1901, to June, 1902; transferred to 3rd Cavalry, 
 returned to the United States August, 1902; border service at 
 Del Rio, Texas, November and December, 1910; border ser- 
 vice at Minera, Texas, since January 29, 1911. 
 
 Special Duty: Instructor, Department of Modern 
 Languages, U. S. Military Academy, August, 1891, to 
 August, 1895, relieved at his own request; Assistant Professor 
 of French, U. S. Military Academy, October, 1898, to July, 
 1899, relieved at his own request; Assistant Professor of 
 French, U. S. Military Academy, August, 1904, to August, 
 1907; Head of Department of Languages, Army Service 
 Schools, August, 1907, to August, 1910, relieved at his own 
 request; Commissary, 3rd Cavalry, June, 1903, to August, 
 1904. 
 
 Remarks: Distinguished marksman, 1890; distinguished 
 pistol-shot, 1903; member of Cavalry Army Team, 1903; mem- 
 ber of Army Team, 1906; coach for Cavalry Army Team in 
 First National Match, 1903. 
 
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Personal History: Born February 1, 1864, Evans- 
 ville, Indiana. Married Viola J. Starck, December 31, 1890, 
 Corpus Christi, Texas. Children: Arthur Paul Thayer, 
 born April 30, 1893, West Point, New York; Marie Lillie 
 Thayer, born November 7, 1894, West Point, New York; 
 Basil Girard Thayer, born July 16, 1898, Jefferson Barracks, 
 Missouri; Francis Marion Thayer, born August 28, 1905, 
 West Point, New York; Cora Thayer, born November 7, 
 1908, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 
 
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1st Lieutenant, 2nd U. S. Artiixery. 
 Died at Anderson, S. C, March 23, 1893; Aged 30. 
 
 Towers entered with the class in June, 1882, and soon 
 made it evident that he was to be numbered among the star 
 performers in mathematics, as well as in the gentle art of 
 sharing the contents of her lunchbasket with some unsuspect- 
 ing damsel in a cozj-^ corner in Flirtation Walk. The writer 
 well remembers, one hot afternoon in Yearling Camp, while 
 engaged in instilling instruction into plebes, how he was sud- 
 denly accosted by an attractive young female in anxious 
 search of Cadet "Digby." Upon graduation Towers was 
 assigned to the 1st Artillery and joined in September at the 
 Presidio. Here were assembled a choice and merry crowd — 
 Bean, Mott, T. B. Lyman, Sturgis, '84, Faison, '83; and 
 reports do say that the Post Commander, General (then 
 Major) Grahame, had the time of his life getting any of these 
 brave young soldiers to attend reveille. Towers remained here 
 until May, 1890, when, his health failing, he was obliged to 
 take a sick leave until the following September, when it was 
 found that it would not do to send him back to the climate 
 of San Francisco. He accordingly was detailed as Professor 
 of Military Science and Tactics at the South Carolina Mili- 
 tary Academy, Charleston, S. C, to date from September 
 30, 1890. It was hoped that his health would improve in the 
 warm climate of his native State, but the disease — tubercu- 
 losis — had progressed too far. He died March 23, 1893. 
 
 It is surely a tribute to a man to be able to say that, when 
 one looks back to four long years of hard work and little play 
 spent in close companionship with him, his memory always 
 brings a smile to the lips. This is true of Towers. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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Major of Cavalry. Station: West Point, New York. 
 
 War and Field Service: Against Crow Indians, No- 
 vember, 1887; against Sioux Indians, November, 1890, to 
 February, 1891 ; Spanish- American War, Santiago campaign, 
 June 14 to August 13, 1898; Philippine insurrection, Novem- 
 ber 30, 1900, to July 4, 1902. 
 
 Battles and Actions: Action against Crow Indians 
 near Crow Agency, November 5, 1887, Las Guasimas, Cuba, 
 June 24, 1898, San Juan, Cuba, July 1-3, 1898; siege of San- 
 tiago, July 4-17, 1898. These campaigns and engagements 
 all resulted in commendatory orders and reports for hard 
 marching, energetic efforts, and recommendations for two 
 brevets for gallantry in action. 
 
 Special Duty: Instructor and Assistant Professor of 
 French, U. S. Military Academy, 1892-98, 1902-04; Associ- 
 ate Professor of Modern Languages, U. S. Military Academy, 
 1907-11; Acting Adjutant General and Acting Assistant 
 Adjutant General, Department of Southern Luzon and De- 
 partment of South Philippines, November, 1900, to August, 
 1902; on confidential mission to insurgent camp, April, 1902, 
 resulting in surrender of all insurgents of Island of Samar 
 under General Guevara; on delicate confidential missions in 
 summers of 1904 and 1905, for which commended for "marked 
 discretion, energy and ability"; on mission to Germany to wit- 
 ness the Fall Army Maneuvers, 1906; on confidential mission 
 to Panama, summer 1908; Senior Umpire, Fort Riley Maneu- 
 vers, 1910; Head, Department of Languages (French, Ger- 
 man, Spanish), Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, 
 Kansas, 1904-07. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 15, 1864, New York. 
 Married October 15, 1895, at Albany, New York, to Kath- 
 arine Hamilton Chapman, of Troy Road, Albany, New York. 
 
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Children: Margaret Standish Traub, born West Point, New 
 York, March 8, 1897; Katharine Hamilton Traub, born West 
 Point, New York, August 24, 1903; Elizabeth Hudson Traub, 
 born Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, April 30, 1905. 
 
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I|arrg (^mv^t ©rout 
 
 Captain, 2xd U. S. Cavalry. 
 Died August 8, 190.5; Aged 43. 
 
 Trout entered the Academy with the September contin- 
 gent in 1882 and was graduated in June, 1886, and assigned 
 to the 9th Cavalry. He served his tour as 2nd Lieutenant with 
 that regiment and was promoted 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Cavalry, 
 on JNIarch 7, 1893. He joined at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, 
 in May of the same year and spent the next four years at that 
 post. In August, 1897, he entered the Infantry and Cavalry 
 School at Fort Leavenworth, but the breaking out of the Span- 
 ish-American War dispersed the class in the spring of 1898. 
 Trout joined his regiment which went through that wearisome 
 period of waiting for something to do in the camps at Tampa, 
 Montauk Point and Huntsville. At the conclusion of the 
 war he served as mustering-out officer at Philadelphia from 
 September 9 to December 8, 1898. After rejoining his 
 regiment he served as Acting Regimental Adjutant, Quarter- 
 master and Commissary from January 20 to March 31, 1899. 
 He accompanied the Regiment to Cuba in the spring of that 
 year and remained with it until its return to the United States 
 in January, 1902. He performed garrison duty at Fort 
 Ethan Allen, Vermont, and Fort Myer, Virginia, until the de- 
 parture of his regiment for the Philippines in December, 1903. 
 The next two years were passed at Camp Stotsenburg, Philip- 
 pine Islands, in command of his troop. In August, 1905, he 
 was seized with a severe attack of appendicitis and operated 
 upon, but without avail. He died at Camp Stotsenburg on 
 August 8, 1905, of peritonitis. 
 
 It has been the sad duty of the writer to write the obitu- 
 ary notices of the two classmates who shared the same room 
 
 203 
 
with him during the period of their first introduction to the 
 Academy as "Seps." Later on the strong friendship enter- 
 tained for Trout was renewed at Tampa and Fort Ethan 
 Allen, where his high standing as an officer only verified the 
 opinion formed of him as a cadet. He was always loyal and 
 devoted to the class, and the writer feels that this brief and dry 
 account of his services will give those who did not know him 
 but a faint idea of his sterling qualities as an officer and a man. 
 The following regimental order was issued on his death: 
 
 Headquaeters 2nd U. S. Cavalry^ 
 
 Camp Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I., 
 
 August 8, 1905. 
 General Orders, No. 4. 
 
 1. It is with profound sorrow that the Regimental Com- 
 mander announces to the Regiment the death, at this post, at 
 noon to-day, of Captain Harry G. Trout, 2nd Cavalry. Born 
 at Philadelphia, Pa., on September 5, 1861, he was appointed 
 a cadet at the United States Military Academy on September 
 1, 1882, and upon graduation was commissioned, July 1, 
 1886, as 2nd Lieutenant, 9th U. S. Cavalry. On March 7, 
 1893, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenancy in the 2nd Cavalry, 
 and on February 2, 1901, received his promotion to a Cap- 
 taincy in the Regiment. 
 
 Captain Trout's long and honorable record of twenty- 
 three years' service has exerted an influence that will not termi- 
 nate with his untimely death. He will long be remembered bj^ 
 his comrades, officers and men of this Regiment for his gen- 
 eral cultivation and professional attainments ; for his high sense 
 of duty; for the jealous care with which he guarded the honor 
 of his profession, as a soldier proud of the name ; for his manly 
 sympathy for those serving at his side ; and for his interest in 
 the officers and men of his troop — "H." 
 
 The Army has lost an officer and a gentleman. 
 
 2 The officers of the Regiment will wear the usual badge 
 of mourning for thirty days. 
 
 By order of Major Johnson: 
 
 (Signed) Fred'k S. Foltz, 
 
 Captain and Adjutant, 2nd Cavalry. 
 
 J. E. McM. 
 
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I 
 
([II|arl00 Qlarrnll Halrutt. Jr. 
 
 Major of Cavalry. Station: Schofield Barracks, Hawaiian 
 Territory. 
 
 War and Field Service: Philippine outbreak in Feb- 
 ruary, 1899; with two expeditions under General Lawton in 
 April, 1899. 
 
 Volunteer Service: Captain, Assistant Quartermas- 
 ter, May 12, 1898, to September 18, 1899; ^lajor, 44th U. S. 
 Infantry, September 18, 1899, to June 30, 1901; served in 
 Philippine Islands, August, 1898, to October, 1901, in various 
 capacities in the Quartermaster's Department. 
 
 Personal History: Born June 20, 1861, Columbus, 
 Ohio. JNIarried Julia du Pont Crofton, of Wilmington, Dela- 
 ware, August 26, 1891, at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. 
 
 207 
 
Captain. Retired March 2, 1899. Address: Harris- 
 burg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Special Duty: Military Instructor, De Pauw Univer- 
 sity, Greencastle, Indiana, January, 1890, to October, 1892. 
 Military Instructor, Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, New 
 York, July, 1900, to September, 1905. 
 
 Personal History: Born February 5, 1862, Minerva, 
 Ohio. Married Arta Parvin, September 6, 1888, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. Children: Robert Parvin Williams, born August 29, 
 1891, Greencastle, Indiana (Miami Medical College, Cincin- 
 nati) ; Arta Williams, born December 31, 1894, Fort Sheri- 
 dan, Illinois; Charles Linton Williams, born January 3, 1898, 
 Fort Huachuca, Arizona. 
 
 209 
 
Jfrank Hong Winn 
 
 Major, 13th U. S. Infantry. Station: Fort Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas, to March, 1911; ordered to proceed on April 
 5, 1911, to Manila, Philippine Islands. 
 
 War and Fiei-d Service: In the field with the 1st Infan- 
 try (Colonel Shafter), Pine Ridge campaign against Sioux 
 Indians, December 4, 1890, to March 4, 1891 ; in the field with 
 Company B, 1st Infantry, Round Valle}^ Indian Reservation, 
 California, March 9 to April 30, 1892; in the field with the 1st 
 Infantry (Colonel Shafter), at Los Angeles, California, dur- 
 ing railroad strike, from July 2 to August 17, 1894; Camp 
 George H. Thomas, Chickamauga, to June 7, 1898; with Reg- 
 iment in Cuba from June 20 to August 15, 1898, serving 
 throughout the campaign against Santiago, participating in 
 the battles of El Caney, July 1st, San Juan, July 2nd and 3rd, 
 and subsequent operations to the surrender of the Spanish 
 Army, July 17, 1898; nominated by the President to be Brevet 
 Captain for gallantry in battle of El Caney, Cuba, July 1, 
 1898; Montauk Point, New York, to September 10, 1898; to 
 the Philippine Islands, February 19, 1899; served in Luzon 
 during Filipino insurrection; Manila, April 14 to June 25, 
 1899, with 2nd Division, 8th Army Corps; Northern Luzon 
 thereafter and throughout the advance from San Fernando to 
 Tarlac; participated with his regiment in the engagements of 
 San Fernando and Calulut, August 9th; Angeles, August 16th 
 and 18th; Angeles, October 11th and 16th, and other opera- 
 tions in the vicinity of Angeles during August and September 
 and October, 1899, and the subsequent advance to Bamban 
 (November 11, 1899) and Tarlac (November 13, 1899). 
 Nominated by the President to be Brevet Major for gallantry 
 in action, Angeles, Luzon, August 16, 1899; Adjutant Gen- 
 eral, 3rd District (General Jacob H. Smith commanding), 
 
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Department of Northern Luzon, August 8, 1900, to Septem- 
 ber 6, 1901; Acting Military Secretary, Pacific Division, 
 November, 1905, to January 29, 1906; Aide-de-Camp to 
 Division Commander (Major General Adolphus W. Greely), 
 April 18 to August 2, 1906, during the operations of the 
 Army in the San Francisco earthquake, fire and relief wprk. 
 
 Special Duty : Professor of Military Science and Tac- 
 tics, University of California, Berkeley, California, August 15, 
 1893, to August 15, 1897; Acting Aide-de-Camp to General 
 James W. Forsyth, maneuvers, Monterey, California, from 
 July 6 to August 19, 1895; on leave of absence in Europe, 
 May 15 to December 21, 1897; Regimental Adjutant (1st 
 Lieutenant), 12th Infantry, April 13, 1898, to March 2, 1899; 
 Regimental Adjutant (Captain), 12th Infantry, March 2, 
 1899, to August 8, 1900; Regimental Quartermaster, 12th 
 Infantry, June 1, 1902, to March 3, 1904; Aide-de-Camp to 
 Major General Arthur MacArthur, March 4, 1904, to Sep- 
 tember 18, 1906; Lieutenant Colonel and Military Secretary 
 to the Lieutenant General of the Army, Lieutenant General 
 Arthur MacArthur, September 18, 1906, to June 2, 1909; 
 at Headquarters Pacific Division, San Francisco, California, 
 to April 30, 1907; with General Baron Kuroki and officers, 
 Imperial Japanese Army, Seattle to Washington City, May, 
 1907; at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 20, 1907, to June 2, 
 1909 ; on leave of absence in Europe, summer and fall of 1909 ; 
 member Infantry Examining Board, October 12, 1909, to 
 1911; commanding Regiment, July 25 to September, 1910, 
 Fort Riley Maneuvers. 
 
 Personal History: Born October 4, 1864, Winches- 
 ter, Kentucky. Married (1) Dora Boardman, of San Fran- 
 cisco, California, who died December 23, 1891, (2) Katharine 
 McCord, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 15, 1910. Chil- 
 dren: Dora Julia Winn, born December 17, 1891, San Fran- 
 cisco, California. 
 
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Major of Cavalry. Station: Presidio of San Francisco, 
 California. 
 
 War and Field Service: 1890-91, Sioiix Indian war, 
 2nd Lieutenant, Troop C, 9th Cavalry, with Fort Leaven- 
 worth Cavalry Battalion, Pine Ridge campaign; 1896-97, 
 1st Lieutenant, Troop A, 1st Cavalry, scouting trails of rene- 
 gade Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico; January- 
 March, 1898, 1st Lieutenant, commanding Troop A, 1st 
 Cavalry, exploring in Papago Indian country, investigating 
 relations of settlers and Indians, etc.; 1898, with 5th Army 
 Corps in Santiago campaign, commanding Troop A, 1st 
 Cavalry, in battles of Guasimas and San Juan; with detach- 
 ment 1st Cavalry, Troops A and L, on strike duty at Wal- 
 lace and Wardner, Idaho, May-November, 1899; with regi- 
 ment in Philippines, September, 1900, to August, 1903; 1st 
 Lieutenant and Captain, Troop A; general scouting; com- 
 manded at Lucban, February, 1901, to April, 1902; operated 
 under General Bell's orders in Batangas campaign; com- 
 manded 1st Squadron in reconnaissance of Batangas and 
 Tayabas provinces, June, 1903; with regiment in military 
 occupation of San Francisco, May- June, 1906, after fire and 
 earthquake; on Mexican border enforcing neutrality laws, 
 February- April, 1911, operating in Arizona and California; 
 commanded troops at Yuma, February- April, 1911. 
 
 National Guard: Corporal, Louisville Legion Cadets, 
 F Company, 1st Kentucky; Corporal and selected for appoint- 
 ment as Sergeant Major at time of entering West Point; 
 with regiment escorting ex- President Grant when visiting 
 Louisville at close of his tour of the world. 
 
 Special Duty: Instructor of Drawing, United States 
 Militarv Academv, 1891-92; Instructor in Mathematics, Fort 
 
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Leavenworth, 1893; commanded Crow Indian Troop L, 1st 
 Cavalry, at Fort Custer, Montana, 1893-94; on topograph- 
 ical reconnaissance in Southern Arizona, June- September, 
 1897, between Mexican border and Gila River, Tombstone 
 arid Tucson, for progressive military map; on recruiting 
 service, Louisville, 1898; general recruiting service, El Paso, 
 Texas, 1896-1909; Acting Superintendent Sequoia and Gen- 
 eral Grant National Parks, 1910, commanding troop on duty 
 at parks. 
 
 Miscellaneous: Sharpshooter; member Department of 
 Missouri Revolver Team (bronze medal), 1892; attended 
 summer camp, Strawberry Valley, Utah, 1889; at one post 
 or another has performed all post, staff and special duties, 
 giving special attention to post schools at Fort Duchesne and 
 Fort Robinson; has served at twelve established posts in the 
 United States and at five stations in the Philippines. 
 
 With Stewart, designed class ring; illustrated Batchelor's 
 "Infantry Fire." 
 
 Peesonal History: Born August 4, 1864, Augusta, 
 Georgia. (Unmarried.) 
 
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Class Songs 
 
1. THE ELEGANT BOLD '86 
 
 "A" Company 
 There's old Wiley Bean, and also Danny Keene, 
 
 Paddy Nolan and Saturday, the twins, 
 There's old Boss Wright, who braced with all his might, 
 
 And Duncan, so handy with his shins. 
 
 Chorus — There's the Walcutts, the Pershings, 
 
 The Shattucks and the Beans, 
 And Windy with his fins so quick; 
 
 Bow down to me low as walking I go, 
 I'm the elegant, bold Simon Slick. 
 
 "W Company 
 There's old Jones, E. N., and all "B" Company men, 
 
 Who live in tents just on the right. 
 And little Peggy Winn, who thinks swearing is a sin. 
 
 And his tentmate who swears with all his might. 
 
 Chorus — There's Bobby Hirst and Moses, two staunch 
 old bachelors, 
 And Riche, who's a-fussin' and a-stewin'; 
 
 Bow down to me low as walking I go, 
 I'm the elegant, bold Jimmy Druien. 
 
 "C" Company 
 There's little Timmy Thayer, with his military air, 
 
 Who goes to see his girl and keep's her key. 
 And old Jack Nance, in a pair of borrowed pants, 
 
 Who goes out every day in F. C. P. 
 
 Chorus — There's the Byrons, the Deshons, the Pettits 
 and the Traubs, 
 The Croxtons and the Twiggses of the Corps ; 
 Bow down to me low as walking I go, 
 I'm the elegant, bold Benny Poore. 
 
 There's old Sukey Mott, who's mashed but says he's not. 
 Every day to the mess hall wends his way ; 
 
 And also Uncle Mac, takes his dress coat from the rack. 
 And goes down "Flirtation" every day. 
 
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Chorus — There's the Potters, the Proctors, the Kmiballs 
 and the Hays, 
 John Hardeman and also Sammy Seay; 
 Bow down to us low as walking we go. 
 
 We're the officers and men of Company D. 
 
 Battalion Staff 
 
 There's old Tibby who gets an absence on tattoo. 
 And says he's been out walking with his aunt, 
 But down "Flirtation" with the moon, he's an awful man 
 to spoon. 
 He's the elegant, bold adjutant. 
 
 Chorus — There's also Uncle Mac, on whom his girl went 
 back 
 Because he wouldn't spoon her any faster; 
 Bow down to me low as walking I go, 
 I'm the elegant, bold quartermaster. 
 
 2. LITTLE TOMMARIO 
 
 There was once a gay young smokario. 
 
 His name it was Thomas Reesario, 
 
 He smoked so strong a cigario 
 
 That it made him feel very glum — yum — yum. 
 
 Along came the Officer of the Dario, 
 
 Who took out his little bookario. 
 
 He raked in this festive Tommario, 
 
 Which made him exceedingly glum — yum — yum. 
 
 On the next confinement listario. 
 
 Little Tommy was in confinario. 
 
 He could not do any spoonario. 
 
 Which made him exceedingly glum — yum — ^yiim. 
 
 Down by the old Hospitalario 
 
 There lives a fair young Julietto ; 
 
 If we should here tell her cognamio, 
 
 It would make him exceedingly glum — yum — yum. 
 
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To see this fair young Julietto, 
 
 Tommy made a bold breach of conetto, 
 
 He had a most narrow escapio, 
 
 Which would make him exceedingly glum — yum — yum. 
 
 Had a Tack seen this reckless actario, 
 
 Our friend would have been privatario, 
 
 He would now have been walking guardario, 
 
 Which would make him exceedingly glum — yum — yum. 
 
 3. THE PONTON BRIDGE 
 
 (Tune— "Hold the Fort") 
 
 Lower the balk, the chess are coming, 
 
 Side rails on the way, 
 Hear the Major wildly shouting, 
 
 Hurry up that bay. 
 
 chorus: 
 
 Hold the balk and chess and rack sticks, 
 Though we swear and steam, 
 
 Soon we'll have the bridge constructed. 
 Then we'll cross the stream. 
 
 See the balkmen now approaching. 
 
 Major leading on. 
 Soon he'll give the order "lower," 
 
 And the bay is done. — Cho. 
 
 Step out the side rails and the lastings, 
 
 Tie her firm and fast, 
 We'll not get back to the encampment 
 
 Till the recall's past. — Cho. 
 
 4. THE CRY OF GRADUATION 
 
 (Tune— "The Battle Cry of Freedom") 
 
 Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys. 
 
 We'll rally once again, 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation; 
 We'll rally from the section room. 
 
 And gather on the plain. 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. 
 
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Chorus — Yes, June forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! 
 
 Down with the chevron and up with the bar, 
 While we rally round the flag, boj^s, 
 Rally once again, 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. 
 
 We nevermore will tussle with 
 
 The ravelin covered way. 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation, 
 But we'll whoop it up for h 's sake 
 
 On our Graduation day. 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. — Cho. 
 
 And our engineer instructors. 
 With their eager, searching eyes. 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation, 
 
 Nevermore will hang around us. 
 Like a lot of hungry spies. 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. — Cho. 
 
 And when we reach our homes, boys, 
 
 How happy we will be, 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation, 
 For then we won't be skinned again 
 
 For late at reveille, 
 
 louting the cry of Graduation. — Cho. 
 
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 We will follow in the footsteps 
 Of our brothers gone before. 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation, 
 
 And we'll fill up all the vacancies 
 With seventy-seven more. 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. — Cho. 
 
 We will soon be bold lieutenants, boys, 
 
 So don't be feeling sad. 
 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation; 
 And how we'll "whoop it" for the man 
 
 Who's first to be a dad. 
 Shouting the cry of Graduation. — Cho. 
 
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5. WILEY BEANARIO 
 
 There once was a gay yoimg Lothario, 
 And his name it was Wiley Eeanario; 
 
 One day he received a skinario 
 
 Which made him exceedingly glum, 
 
 Yum, Yum. 
 
 He went down to see the Commario 
 To make charges against the tackario, 
 
 But he sent him back in arrestario. 
 
 Which made him feel none the less glum^ — 
 
 Yum, Yum. 
 
 Next night there came out an ordario 
 Which made Wiley Bean privatario, 
 
 They bumped him against the tent-polio 
 
 And injured dum dum. 
 
 Yum, Yum. 
 
 6. THE HARVEST 
 
 (Tune— "What Shall the Harvest Be?") 
 
 Walking guard in the dajdight fair, 
 Raking in skins in the noontide glare. 
 Standing attention in soft twilight. 
 Sleeping on post in the solemn night: 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? — "Skins." 
 
 chorus: 
 
 Walking guard in the morning air. 
 
 Raking in skins in the daylight fair. 
 
 Gathering "cons" for next Saturday, 
 
 Sure, oh, sure, will the harvest be — "Breach of Con." 
 
 Building the bridge with all our might. 
 The sergeant came up in the dead of night 
 And excitedly said to the Major bright, 
 "Sir, the raft itself is out of sight." 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? — "No shoe." 
 
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chorus: 
 
 Working hard until twelve o'clock, 
 Carrying chess on the old North Dock, 
 Deadbeating whenever a chance we see. 
 Sure, oh, sure, will the harvest be — "Balk." 
 
 Constructing a Noizet at eight o'clock, 
 
 Using of cuss-words our total stock, 
 
 Drawing the magistral, oh, so fine, 
 
 To the ramp sloping upward with one on nine. 
 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? 
 
 Oh, what shall the harvest be? — "1.5." 
 
 chorus: 
 
 Cussing and swearing and working all day. 
 Putting in slopes for the covered way, 
 Skinned twice for talking, by Lieutenant G — 
 Sure, oh, sure, will the harvest be — "Transfer. 
 
 7. LITTLE WALLIE 
 
 (Tune — "Sweet Dreamland Faces") 
 
 Little Wallie Gordon, spooning 
 
 All the day. 
 Oh, how he feels now that she has 
 
 Gone away; 
 Gone away forever, never to return, 
 To forget his sweetheart he 
 
 Will never learn. 
 
 Sweet cadet faces passing in review, 
 Then comes inspection for coats that 
 
 Are not new; 
 Along strides his Nibs, now, with all his 
 
 Retinue, 
 Oh, General Wesley, yours is threadbare too. 
 
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8. CLEMENTINE 
 
 (Tune — "My Clementine") 
 
 In "B" Company, in "B" Company 
 Live a lot of handsome men, 
 
 Fritz and Moses, Fritz and Moses, 
 And the classic Jones, E. N. 
 
 Chorus — Oh! the classic, oh! the classic. 
 Oh! the classic Jones, E. N., 
 You will never know your tactics, 
 And the Cop will rake you in. 
 
 In "C" Company, in "C" Company 
 Live a lot of spoony men, 
 
 Stephen Elliott, Stephen Elliott, 
 And his tentmate, Julius Penn. 
 
 Chorus — Oh! my darling, oh! my darling, 
 Oh! my darling Julius Penn, 
 You'll be lost to us forever 
 When the course is at an end. 
 
 In the guard-house, in the guard-house 
 Live a lot of skinning men; 
 
 Cop and Goober, Darr and Davy, 
 General K. and Cheeky John. 
 
 Chorus — Oh ! my darling, oh ! my darling, 
 Oh! my darling Cheeky John, 
 You will never kick our clothes-bags 
 When a hundred days have gone. 
 
 In the summer, in the summer, 
 In the summer it is queer 
 
 That mixed drinks with ice and sugar 
 Should give a man the . 
 
 Chorus — O the doctor, O the doctor, 
 O the doctor, he has said 
 That the cases of the colic 
 
 Come from drinking lemonade. 
 
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9. SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER? 
 
 Shall we gather at the river, 
 
 Where the "Major" calls for "chess," 
 
 Where they make us work forever. 
 Where they never give "place rest"? 
 
 Chorus — Yes, we will gather at the river, 
 The beautiful, beautiful river. 
 Gather with the soldiers at the river. 
 Where they never give "place rest." 
 
 Shall we gather at the river, 
 
 Where the ponton boats are moored? 
 
 Shall we carry "chess" forever. 
 
 Until the ponton bridge is floored? — Cho. 
 
 Shall we wear white shirts forever. 
 And leave our jackets on the shore? 
 
 Shall we "rock and heave" together 
 
 Until oiu* backs are awful sore? — Cho. 
 
 Shall we carry balk forever, 
 
 Lash side rails forevermore? 
 Shall we finish never, never. 
 
 With this Engineer Corps? — Cho. 
 
 Shall we gather at the battery. 
 
 Where the heliostat is set? 
 Shall we signal up to Newburgh, 
 
 "No message from you yet"? — Cho. 
 
 When we gather at the river. 
 
 As we're about to leave the Corps, 
 
 We'll be happy then forever. 
 
 For we'll "build the bridge" nevermore. — Cho. 
 
 10. INFANTRY WHITE 
 
 We've not much longer here to stay. 
 We've passed the himdredth night. 
 
 We'll bid farewell to cadet gray 
 And don the infantry white. 
 
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Chorus — Infantry white, infantry white, 
 
 We'll don the infantry white, 
 
 We'll bid farewell to cadet gray 
 
 And don the infantry white. — Cho. 
 
 We'll graduate on June the twelfth, 
 
 And celebrate that night. 
 We'll drink to everybody's health. 
 
 And yet we won't get tight. — Cho. 
 
 Then here's three groans for burly Cop, 
 And four for Cheeky John, 
 
 They nevermore our fun will stop 
 By putting us in "con."- — Cho. 
 
 For soon we're going to graduate 
 And don our Hatfield coats, 
 
 Farewell we'll say to old Noizet, 
 That terror of the goats. — Cho. 
 
 And here's a health to Colonel Price, 
 Come, boys, and drink it down. 
 
 Our hearts are light, the bill has passed. 
 We'll decorate the town.— Cho. 
 
 Here's to our dear old Wiley Bean, 
 
 A politician he. 
 Without his wire-pulling, I ween. 
 
 Ten nobby cits we'd be. — Cho. 
 
 11. THE COPROLITE 
 
 (Tune — "The Midshipmite") 
 
 'Twas in '85, on a rainy night. 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 I was walking guard in a terrible plight, 
 AVhen up came a great big Coprolite, 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 "I'll turn them out four times," said he, 
 "Before the sound of reveille. 
 And give to each a skin," said he. 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
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Chorus — With a long, long skin, 
 And a long, strong skin, 
 Gaily, my lads, make her stick. 
 We're in "con" tonight for the Coprolite, 
 Singing, Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 What's that with pants, so white and bright? 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 Number One cries out in a terrible fright, 
 " 'Tis the burly form of the Coprolite." 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 Oh! I got two skins that made me grieve. 
 And I feel pretty sin*e those skins will cleave, 
 And bust my chance for a Christmas leave. 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! — Cho. 
 
 With the cries of the Cop our camp was rife, 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 And all above the busy strife 
 Was heard, "Cut away those hands with life." 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 "Look alive!" he cries with all his might, 
 "Pay more attention! Mr. Wright." 
 Oh! I'm tired of this talkative Coprolite, 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! 
 
 Challenge me, my lads, ye ho! — Cho. 
 
 12. DE REVEILLEES 
 
 (Tune — "Golden Slippers") 
 
 Oh ! dem reveillees am laid away, 
 
 'Case I ain't a-gwine to wear 'em till graduation day, 
 
 But the dress hat so greenish, though it looks rather sheenish, 
 
 I'll wear on guard in the morn. 
 
 De old dress coat dat I bought last June, 
 
 I'se gwine to give away, 'case it fits too soon. 
 
 And de overcoat, too, dat am not very new, 
 
 I'll give to a plebe dat morn. 
 
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CHORUS : 
 
 Oh! dem reveilleans, oh! dem reveilleans, 
 
 Reveilleans I'se gwine to wear because they look so neat and 
 
 handsome, 
 Oh! dem reveilleans, oh! dem reveilleans, 
 Reveilleans I'se gwine to wear to walk dat company street. 
 
 De catridge box am laid away 
 
 'Case I'm gwine to wear a sash on guard today. 
 
 And de pompon new am put away too, 
 
 For I'll wear a plume in the morn. 
 
 De old waistplate dat am all over tarnished. 
 
 Will visit a plebe till de scabbard am varnished. 
 
 While I wear the breastplate of some feller's tentmate,. 
 
 And borrow a sword in the morn. — Cho. 
 
 Dese old white pants wid de holes in the seat, 
 I'se gwine to exchange for a pair so neat. 
 For it's terrible bad to be looking so sad. 
 When I march that guard in the morn. 
 Dat new white jacket dat was bought last month, 
 I'se gwine to fill up wid buttons on the front, 
 And bright they will be as you shall see, 
 When I march dat guard in the morn. — Cho. 
 
 Here's some brand-new socks dat cost lots of rocks, 
 
 Dat come from de commissary in a box, 
 
 Dey will cover dese feet (very small and neat) 
 
 When I march dat guard in the morn. 
 
 De new white helmet just across the way, 
 
 Dat was bought by a plebe just a week ago today, 
 
 I'll be sure to borrow, today or tomorrow, 
 
 If de guard be in white in the morn. — Cho. 
 
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13. THE HEATHEN CHINEE 
 
 (Tune — "Chineeman Bully Man") 
 
 Take a little waterlee, take a little sugarlee, take a little 
 lemolee, 
 
 Stir lem in a pail ; 
 Some people callee nice lenionadee, some people callee 
 Ginneecockatail. 
 
 Chorus. — Hi yi yi, chin, chin chin, 
 
 Me no likee tackee man, he too muchee skin ; 
 Coppee man h — of a man, he laugh hi yi ; 
 Coppee man h — of a man, he laugh hi yi. 
 
 Take a little lightee, take a little tactics, take a little Jonesey, 
 
 Bonee after taps. 
 Some people say he tear he little shirtee, some people say 
 
 He dammy cold fess. — Cho. 
 
 Me likee pipee, me likee smokee, me no likee Coppee man; 
 
 He no likee me. 
 Along come Coppee man, and sniffee up he nosee, sniffee up 
 he nosee, 
 
 Bound to rakee me. — Cho. 
 
 14. THE FLY-SPECK MAN 
 
 (Tune — "If You are Anxious for to Shine" — Patience) 
 
 If you are anxious for to shine in the engineering line. 
 
 As a goat so bold and rare, 
 You must sit up every night, and bone with all your might. 
 
 And tear out all your hair. 
 Oh! the Quercus and the Oakus, bedad, they nearly choke us. 
 
 And the Kyan's method too; 
 Oh! Ordnance and Gunnery are nothing else but flummery. 
 
 And the liquid Spanish too. 
 And every one will say, as you walk your concrete way, 
 "If he is content to rag a max, which would certainly not suit 
 
 me, 
 Why, what a very, very, very, very fly-speck man this fly-speck 
 man must be." 
 
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15. THE HOG-FISH OF THE CORPS 
 
 (Tune — "For He is an Englishman") 
 
 For it is a lampereel. 
 
 For it might have been a ganoid, 
 
 A teleost or a placoid, 
 
 Or perhaps a dinosaur, 
 
 Or perhaps a Dinosauk. 
 
 But in spite of all temptations. 
 
 To belong to the crustaceans, 
 
 It remains the Hog-fish of the Corps, 
 
 It remains the Hog-fish of the Corps. 
 
 16. THE LAST BANQUETTE— MAY 1, 1886 
 
 (Air — "Son of a Gondolier" or "Auld Lang Syne") 
 
 [Dedicated by the author to Chauncey B. Baker, whose 
 pleasant smile has "whiled away the tedium of many sad 
 hours."— B. File.] 
 
 With sunken eye and ink-stained lips. 
 And mouth with oaths profaned. 
 
 He stood before his Noizet front 
 And on it curses rained. 
 
 II 
 
 And as he stood and vainly cursed. 
 
 Remembrances came 
 Of many weeks that he had spent 
 
 A drawing of the same. 
 
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 How "James Mercur," the Professeur, 
 Did about the traverse harp. 
 
 And order that a raise be made 
 Along the counterscarp. 
 
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 How Gustav J., the Fiebijer, 
 With soft and black pencell, 
 
 Did sit upon the glacis planes 
 And give the ravelin h ; 
 
 How Goethals with his "new-born" joy 
 
 Did diverse skinning do, 
 Because an "artist" was desirous 
 
 Of a reference or two. 
 
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 How little Jimmie Warren too, 
 With night work tired and bent, 
 
 His magic aid in lettering 
 To sundry "fly-specks" lent. 
 
 VII 
 
 His visions are now put to flight 
 
 By sound of bugle calls; 
 With borrowed ink his pen he fills, 
 
 And on his drawing "falls." 
 
 VIII 
 
 The second bugle calleth, 
 
 His face is cold with sweat. 
 Unfinished is the covered way. 
 
 In pencil, the banquette. 
 
 IX 
 
 A Banquet soon will come, my friends, 
 Where no Noizet front is found. 
 
 When for long lost time we make amends. 
 And take a smile all 'round. 
 
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 And as long as life is spared me, 
 
 On this I will insist, 
 The time I've spent in Drawing, 
 
 It always will be missed. 
 
 17. OUR POSTLE 
 
 (Tune— "My Bonnie") 
 
 My Postle's gone over the ocean, 
 
 My Postle's gone over the sea, 
 O haste, ye rough winds, o'er the ocean. 
 
 And keep back my Postle from me. 
 
 Chorus — Keep back, keep back. 
 
 Keep back my Postle from me, from me, 
 Keep back, keep back. 
 
 Keep back my Postle from me. 
 
 My Postle's gone over to France, 
 My Postle departed in June, 
 
 may I escape from his glance. 
 Return not, my Postle, too soon. 
 
 Chorus — Return not, return not, 
 
 Return not, my Postle, too soon, too soon, 
 Return not, return not, 
 
 Return not, my Postle, too soon. 
 
 1 hope he will stay there a while, 
 
 I hope that the Frenchmen will be 
 So kind to that darling old file 
 
 As to keep back my Postle from me. 
 
 Chorus — Keep back, keep back. 
 
 Keep back my Postle from me, from me. 
 Keep back, keep back. 
 
 Keep back my Postle from me. , 
 
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We hope that while over the ocean, 
 
 Our Postle has fully dispelled 
 The doubts which have long clouded over 
 
 The opinions which Kant reallj^ held. 
 
 Chorus — Which Kant really held, 
 Which Kant really held, 
 The opinions which Kant really held, held, held. 
 Which Kant really held, which Kant really 
 held. 
 The opinions which Kant really held. 
 
 When our course in Hist'ry is ended. 
 
 And Postle is with us once more, 
 O may we all be recommended 
 
 By him for the Engineer Corps. 
 
 Chorus — Engineer Corps, Engineer Corps, 
 
 By him for the Engineer Corps, Corps, Corps, 
 Engineer Corps, Engineer Corps, 
 By him for the Engineer Corps. 
 
 And then when his leave has expired. 
 And Postle's again crossed the sea, 
 
 O may he not make me as tired 
 As when he last parted from me. 
 
 Chorus — Make me as tired, make me as tired. 
 
 As when he last parted from me, from me, 
 Make me as tired, make me as tired. 
 As when he last parted from me. 
 
 My Postle's come over the ocean. 
 
 My Postle's come over the sea. 
 He brought back a piece of humanity 
 
 That preaches till twelve twenty-three. — Cho. 
 
 He was tossed up and down on the billows. 
 As the ship plowed across the mad sea, 
 
 He braced himself up with hot toddy. 
 And came back to tell it to me. — Cho. 
 
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