Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-09-30
GEN. Won. lGOLTKE.
Some Account of the Great Organiser
Of German Victories.
(From the London Telegraph.

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[From the London Telegraph
An exceedingly shabby-looking
not to say miserable house in Beh
rens trasse, Berlin, is pointed out t.
strangers as the residence of thil
great general and consummate wa
administrator, to whom no plan, al
a whole, seems too great, and nj
microscopic detail too trivial. TIL.
watchmaker's accurate neatness O.
hand, laboring unerringly in the as
semblage of parts to whole, has
been fguratively cited with respect
to many great and complex works
from the construction Of the uni
verse downward. The house in
Behrens strasse may be regarded as
the workshop where wheels and
wheels have been put patiently to.
gether by one pair of strong hands:
for strength implies delicacy, wheth-
er in playing a sonata, making a
time-piece, or adjusting the numer-
Gus minute matters needful to the
carrying through of victorious
campaign. Here it is that the most
wonderful piece of human mechan.
ism known to military history, the
German army Of 1874 combina-
ton unparalleled in the multitude OF
its elements and the perfection and
vastnese of its entirety-was put to-
gether. The watch has proved an
excellent piece of work, and people
are curious to know what manner OF
man is the matchmaker.
Gen. Hellmuth Baron Won Moltke,
to whose already proven skill and
energy was entrusted the gigantic
task of setting in immediate motion
half a million of men-of calcula-
ting from all corners of the land the
time required to bring on certain
day, and at certain hour, to a GER
tain point many single corps, uni
ting as a vast, compact, and solid
army-belongs to family Of old
Mccklcnburg. lie was born in the
first year of the century, at farm
known as Samow, near Ribnitz. His
traditions were all military. His
father had served in the Mollendort
regiment, and was resolved on Civ
ing thorough soldiery training to
his sons. Very soon after the birth
| of him whose career we are now
briefly sketching, the family went
to Holstein; and in the year 1912 he
was sent with an elder brother to
the Land cadet academy at Copen-
| hagen, so that Prussia is indebted
to Denmark as well as to the duchy
of Mecklenburg for the production
Of soldier whose services will have
left their mark in the history of this
young but powerful monarchy.
When twenty-five years of age our
cadet entered the Pruss1an service
as second lieutenant in the eighth
Leib infantry regiment, which was
stationed at Franktort-on-the- Oder.
The corps was commanded at the
time by Gen. Won der Warwick,
whose wife was by birth aC6untess
Won Moltke. To this circumstance
may be possibly ascribed the fact
that the young officer, whose means
and worldly prospects were -eOw
very small, found influential friefdSl
He was entirely dependent on ms
slender pay, for his nearestrelatives
had fallen on evil days, and their
fortune was lost.
BY great excrtions and self denial,
Lieutenant Moltke educated himself
in modern languages, and his dill
gence obtained for him in short
time the direction of the division
| school, in which post his duties
were discharged with such eminent
satisfaction to his superior officers
that he was attached to the staff OF
Gen. Won Muffling, and was appoint
ed to take Typographical measure
ments in Silesia and elsewhere.
Soon afterward he became captain;
and in two years was admitted to
the general staff. While holding
the rank of captain, he was sent to
Turkey, with Captain Lane, Won
Muhlbach, Fische, and Won Winke
to organize the army there on the
Prussian model. The work was at
tended with results almost ludicrous.
lv unsuccessful. AS soon as the
Turkish troops were disciplined and
organized, they deserted en- masse
But military literature owes tc
Moltke's eastern visit his popular
and instructive "Letters from Tur
key;" and the same mission also
gave him the opportunity of making
valuable drawings of the Dardan
elles, the Bosphorus, and CONSTANT
nople.
In ls39-and we may remind tht
reader that Won Moltke's years art
the years of the century-he return
ed, after a most interesting journey
through Lesser Asia, to Europe. II
the year following he married Mis-.
Won Burt, of Holstein, and abou
the same time he was promoted t(
she rank Of major. In ls45 he agail
left Germany, and went to Rome
where he was attached rs adjutan
to Prince Heinrich OF Prussia. Few
people now remember this prince
who was the uncle of the presen
king Of Prussia, and who, having be
come a Roman Catholic, ended hi
days in the city of the popes. Afte
leaving Prussia, Prince Heinrich
was reported dead. But he lived t,
furnish a theme which the historic
al novelist of another generation ma,
turn to good account.
Having brought the dead body 0
the prince back to Prussia, Majo
Won Moltke became chief of the gen
eral staff of the fourth army corp
in Magdeburg; in 1850 he was mad
lieutenant-colonel, in 1881 colonel
in 1856 major-general, and in 1855
acknowledgement During this yea
he accompanied the crown prince o
Prussia to Balmoral, and attcrward
being in command of the eleventh
infantry regiment, resided with tn
) prince for twelvemonth in Breslau
! On two other memorable occasion
he went in attendance on the crow
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