Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-08-10
Officers of the Army.

De acceptable 10 the l'uDiIc.
The only Major General in the army
is Gen. Scott, who is also Brcvct Lieu
tenant General. He entered the army
from Virginia. lis native State in the
year 1908. Having been educated for
the bar, he may he regarded as a self:
made General. lie was appointed a
captain of light artillery. by Thomas
Jefferson. on the 2d of May. 1908, be-
ing then twenty-four years of age. lie
was promoted to the rank of Major
General in 1S41, by President Tyler,
and brcvetted as Lieut.. General by
President Buchanan, in 1Sj7-thc bre-
vet dating from the Goth Of March,
1S47.
Gen. SCOTS pay as Lieut.. General is
about $4,000 a year, of which $13,7OO
is drawn from the Pay Department, and
the balance from the Quartermastcrs
Department. lie is now III the seven
ty-siXth year of his age.
There were, until recently, three
Brigadier Generals in the army, but by
the dcscrticn of General Twiygs the
number is reduced to two-John E.
Wool and w. S. Uarney.
General Wool was brevcttcd as Major
General on the 23d of February, 1917,
for his conduct ut the battle of Duena
Vista. lie was in early life a dry. goods
merchant in Troy, N. Y. Being ul.-
successful in business, and bein" ia
vorte with the dominant party Of 1912,
he WAS, through the influence of De
Witt Clinton, appointed by President
Madison IL captain in the 18th infantry.
DR.. VIM. Eustis, Of Massachusetts, was
then Secretary If War, and had served
in the Revolution with Major Wool. f,-
ther of John f. Wool, who merely up.
piled for lieutenancy as the son of his
old friend, the Major. He procured for
him Il captains commission instead,
much tn the surprise and qualification
OF the young aspir..lt for military hon
Ors.
Gen. Wool is now about 73 years of
age, and ranks very high as II discip-
lnarian and an executive officer.
Gen. Harvey entered the army, also
from civil life in 1918, as 81 Lienten-
ant of the 1st. In the Army Register
he is set down rs u native of Louisiana,
but his real birthplace is Kentucky.
lie is of Irish descent, and of remark
ably fine personal appearance. lie is
about sixty-five years OF age.
Bravct Brigadier General Joseph E.
Tottel, Col. OF Engineers, is one of the
oldest officers in the army, having en-
tered it from Connecticut in 1906. He
resigned in 1906, and was appointed 2l
Lieutenant of Engineers in 1908. Gen.
Totten is graduate of West Point,
and is nnequalled as one of the most
accomplished military engineers of the
present day. He is nearly eighty years
of age, but remarkably vigorous and
efficient
Lieut.. Col. Thaycr, of the Engineers,
entered the yrmy in 1903. For many
years he filled the highly responsible
position of Superintendent of the Mil
itary Academy ut West Point, and cle-
waited that institution to the rank OF Il
first class military school.
In his prime, no officer of engineers
had higher reputation than Colonel
Thayer: but he is now a very old man,
and his capacity for active service is en-
tirely limited. Under the superintend
emce of the West Point Academy, ma
nv Of the most brilliant and efficient
officers of our army were educated. Col.
Thayer is native of Massachusetts,
and a graduate of Dartmouth College,
"a well as Of West Point, His age is
about eighty. lie resigned the charge
at the Military Academy in 1882, in
consequence "f disagreement with
General Cass, then Secretary of War.
Col. Craig. the head Of the Orlin
ance Department, is IL Pennsylvania.
and is IS years "f age. lie has re-
Gently been detached from active SER
vice on account of infirmities. aud the
duties Of Colonel Of Ordnance are dis
charged by Lieutenant C"ionel Ripley.
native of Connecticut. Ripley entered
the army in 1874, as a Lieutenant ot
Coast Artillery, having been educated
Mt West Point. He is apparently about
70 years of sge.
Col. Albert, Of the Typographical
Engineers, ID snperannna'ed. Major
Bachc, u Penmsylvanian, discharges the
duties Of the head OF the Bureau.
Brgadicr General +. V. Sumner.
now in command Of the Department Of
the Pacific, is nat We If MSssachu-
setts. In early life he was . clerk in
hardware store in Montreal, and through
the friendship Of tho late Col. 6torron