The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-07
General Winfield Scott.

And Methuselah lived nine hundred
and sixty-nine years, and he died. This
is the expressive record Of Holy Writ.
| The oldest man that everlived died at last.
The distinguished name at the head Of
article had long since passed into history,
and yet at the same time still fingered in
the land of the living, and we naturally
began TO think that the old Generalwould
always occupy his place in our midst But
he, too, is gone Eighty years of honor
and distinction was no safeguard against
death.
Gen. Winfield Scott was born January
13, 1856, in Petersburg, Va, and received
his preparatory education in Richmond
High School and William and Mary Col
lege. He was admitted to the bar in
Richmond, and soon after visited Charles
ton, S. c., with the intention of settling
there, and practiciDg his profession, which
plan, however, he subsequently aban-
boned.
From his earliest boyhood he showed 3
prediction for military career, and for:
tune soon interposed to assist him. The
attack of the British frigate Leopard on
the United States ,frigate Chesapeake
aroused the indignation of the whole
country, and large force of volunteers
was called out. Scott hastened to enroll
himself inSthe Petersburg Troop of horse
as private His soldierly person and
evident taste for arms attracted the atten-
ton of influential friends, and he was
commissioned captain Of light artillery
May 8, 1908.
He was made Lieutenant Colonel in the
war of 1872, and ordered to the Niagara
frontier Before the end of the year he
was elevated to the command of double
regiment, and in March, 1914, he was
promoted to the rank of Brigadier-Gen-
eral. The battle of Chippewa was the
first of long series of victories associated
with his name.
After the declaration of peace, General
Scott was offered the post of Secretary OF
War, by Mr.. Madison, which, however,
he declined, and proceeded to Europe, in
1915, on a secret mission Of the Govern
ment. On his return to the United States
he was assigned in command of the sea-
board, and fixed his headquarters in New
York city. Here he remained till the
breaking out of the Black Hawk war In
1882. At the close of brief campaign
of few months, he returned to New
York, and in October visited Charleston
on highly important and delicate mis-
| sion.
In 1885, his headquarters were trans
ferred to Florida. In 1887 he was sent
to the Northern frontier, on the occasion
of the insurrection in Canada. In 184l
he was made full Major-General, and
appointed Commander-in-C Chief of the
| whole United States army; and on the
3Oth of November, I846, sailed from New
York for the Rio Grande, to direct the
pproaching campaign in Mexico.
His brilliant victories during the two
years of the Mexican war are too familiar
to all orr readers to warrant any further
allusion to them in brief biographical
sketch
BE was nominated for the Presidency
at the Baltimore Whig Convention in
1852. He was honored by Congress with
the rank of Lieutenant General, which
grade was revived in his person as COM
pliment to his distinguished services to the
nation. He was retired from the imme-
date comman1 of the army, at his own
request, November 1, 1861. Since then
he has been living in dignifed retirement
at West Point, where he died on the NOR
ming of the 29th.-Charleston Ne,os.
s- Gov. Walker, of Florida, has issued
proclamation in which he congratulates