The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-29

rounded at death by many friends, and the off.
GERS and professors OF the Military Academy.
Sketch Of the Lite and Public Services of
Brevet Lieutenant-GeneraI Winfield
Scott.
Lieutenaut-General Winfield Scott was born
in Dnwidde county, near the city of Peters.
burg, Virginia, on the 18th of June, 1856.
The place OF his birth is marked by
stone placed there by his early friends, who
have since all passed away. His ancestors
| emigrated to this country from Scotland in the
early portion Of the last century, and settled in
Virginia. Winfield Scott was a self made man.
He was left an orphan, and almost friendless,
at the age of seventeen, and following his own
inclination, addressed himself at that time to
the study of the law. He made good progress
in his professional studies, and was admitted to
the bar in 1906.
He had attained respectable practice In the
courts of Eastern Virginia two years after his
admission, when the Government determined to
increase the regular army, and young Scott
applied for a commission, for which he had
fitted himself by a study of all the books upon
warfare that he could got dossession of.
He passed an examination successfully, and
captain Of light artillery, and his commission
bore date of September 10, 1908.
Subsequently the army was re-organized, and
in 1912, when the United States declared war
| against England, young Scott was commissioned
| Lieutenant-Colonel of the I'd Artillery, and was
at once ordered to the Canadian frontier.
He fought his first battle at Queenstown,
where he was taken prisoner and conveyed to
Quebec, but an exchange was soon effected, and
he Joined General Dearborn, at Niagara, who
was so much pleased with Scott's soldlerly bear
ing and personal bravery, that he made him
A1jutantGeneral and Chief of staff.
Soon after this, Scott, as volunteer, headed
the storming parties which took Forts George
and Erie. In 1914 he was made brigadier-
general, and fought the famous battles of Chip
pewa and Lundy's Lane. In the latter he had
his shoulder shattered by musket ball. and
had his body pierced by another, from the
effects OF which wounds he never entirely reco-
vered. 1t is said that until recently he could
draw piece of silk through his body By one of
the wounds aforementioned.
On the signing of the treaty of peace with
England in 1915, he was offered the portfolio of
Secretary of War, but declined the offer on
account of his youth. After assisting in re-
ducing the army 10 a peace footing, General
Scott was sent to Europe for the benefit of his
health, at the expense of the Government, with
instructions to perfect himself in every species
of military scenco that might be attainable.
In 1916 he returned to the United States, and
was placed in command of the entire seaboar1
deIenses. During the same year he visited toe
place of his nativity, near Petersburg Va, and
wooed and won Miss Maria Mayo daughter {,
he Hon. John Mayo, a wealthy and esteemed
resident of Richmond.
In the fall of the year he settled in Elizabeth
town, N. j., where he continued to reside for
space of twenty years following. 1t was at this
period that difficulty occurred between Gene.
raj Scott and General Jackson, which, as is well
known, resulted in a challenge from the latter
General Scott refused to accept the challenge
in such noble and manly terms that General
Jackson ackno wledged himself entirely in the
wrong and both parties became afterwards
warm personal friends.s
In 1882 General Scott was ordered to the
West to put an end to the Black Hawk war,
which task he accomplished to the entire salts
faction OF all parties; it was in this war that
the deeply lamented Lincoln and General E.
d. Baker served as volunteer soldiers During
the notification excitement in South Carolina
in the latter part of 1882 he was sent to that
State by President Jackson, and succeeded in
completely thwarting the plans of the disunion-
lists, and promptly seized and held the defenses
IN Charleston harbor.
In 1886 General Scott was placed in command
of the forces sent to Florida to subdue the Semi
mole Indians under their great chief Osceola.
From this bloody field, in 1887, he was ordered |
to the northern frontier of the United States as
peacemaker, where be succeeded in bursting up |
Van Renssalear's threatened invasion in Canada, |
which had caused much excitement. |
After this Scott superintended the removal of |
after which he was recalled TO the North to set.
tie the English difficulty concerning the Maine |
boundary.
In l841, on the death of Maior.GeneraI John
Macomb General Winfield Scott assumed entire
command of the American army.
On the 10th day OF November 1876 he started /
southward to commence his brilliant campaigns
in Mexico. The battles of Vera Cruz Cerro
Gordo Jalapa, Puebla, Contreras, San Antonio,
Cherubusco, and Molino del Rey, the taking of
the capital OF Mexico, and the making OF treaty
OF peace, followed in rapid succession. In view |
OF these magnificent victories, Congress gave /
him a unanimous vote of thanks and inferred
upon him the rank OF Brevet Lieutenant General
In 1852 he was nominated by the Wing party
for the Presidency of the United States, but was
defeated.
His life was spent in quietude up 20 the break.
ing out OF the great Rebellion, when he was
called to Washington, and, faithful among the
talthless, with handful Ot troops he saved the
National Capital from seizure BY traitors,