The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-03-19

I,ointment OF Assistant Adjutnnt Gene
RAJ Fry-Sketch OF the Man.
10 following general order has been Issued
WAR RpARrNESr, ADJrIAsT GENERALS OKrIcK,

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GENERAL oRpERs-No. G75
WAR AHTNESr, ApJrIAsT GENERALS 0UIcS,
II WARRINGTON. March II, 1863 I
Is hereby ordered;-first, That Col James n. Fry,
Iilant Adlutant General United States Army, be, and
10y ~, detailed as Provost Marshal General Of the
led states In pursuance Of section FIVE OF the act APP
ed March 3, 1868, Tor enrolling and calling out the
)na forces aad Tor other purposes. He is according
lhorlzed and required to perform all the duties OF
osl Mats shat General set forth IN the said act, and
other duties as may properly pertain 70 his Office
communicative relating 70 the business OF provost
shals and he provisions u the Of Congress
will be address ed TO him.
trcnd, That al appointments which have been here
7 o made Of provost marshsls are hereby revoked.
order OF he SECRETARY or WAR.
THovAs, Adjutanl General.
WHO is COLONEL FRY,
lionel James B. Fry rs a graduate Of tue West Point
AIRY Academy, which institution he entered 10 the
1s43. Ito Is, therefore, between thirty i've and forty
Of age He is native OF Illinois, from which state
AS appointed TO The Military Academy the above
lie graduated on the 3oth of June, 1s47, standing
IA IN his class, In which we find the Of Generals
Wilcox, A. + Burnside, Chas. Gri0nn, II. d. Ayres,
vicle L. G. Hunt. and others 10 the Union army be.
3 few who belong 10 the rebel service on tho let
uly, 1s4T, he was breyettcd second lieutenant Of
Third artillery, and on the goth OF the following
gst was transferred 10 the first artillery with tho
rank Of second leutenant on the 22d Of
uWy. 1901, NC WIS pIohVttu W y hAht AtNhsrtahty
he same regiment, and in $50 appointed
rant Instructor In artillery tactics At the
tary Academy at West Point. The next year Qs5s)
vas appointed aiiutart OF the military academy
Cd partition he hold until the beginning n 1889 on
isth q March 1901, he was appointed an assistant
'nnt general Of tho United States Army, with tho
'ot RANK Of captain, and on the 81 o. August 1851,
promoted to a full captancy. On tho l4th Of No
n Der, 1891, he was appointed an additional aide de-
" 70 General Mcclellan, comma5ng the Army q the
mao with the rank % Colonel ~ volunteers He was
-ped TO duty with Major General DuoIl IA Kentucky
ksre on November 10, 1901, he was announced a. A..
Int aju,ant general and chief a his s,aG On the
OF April 1862 no was promoted 10 a fun majority in
regular army H. performed The du,ic, u chief n
era B,els stall during the whole Of his svcn.s,I cam
w, participating IN tho battles o. shiloh, or p.,s
{ Iaodiug. April, 1862, aDi in the purmlt q
az OFT OF Kentucky, IN October, 1862. Previous
his latter ovenl his headquarters FOR some time
lei Ia Nashville Tennessee, whore performed bis
duties In the midst q eaemies, fitting him well
the position hs is about to 70 occupy provost mar.
uorai lie Inns recently been promoted leutonaat
sral ~ this Ad.u,an, Generals Department, in tho
~ JaIIus ?. Gareshe, killed At MarfreJsboro De.
ber 81 1852, and has since been broye<ted coone Of
regular army, from February 1863, for mcri.orious
rlccs at tho battle Of Shiloh, April I, 1862 and for
|sr services With the armies Of the West ard In the
ltant Generals Department. TN the nth n Nach,
ID, he wss appointed provost marshal General Of tho
tad States, with the rank Of Colonel ~ set for,hrD
4 aboec ordor