The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-07
MATTERS,

NAL. u. w. Burke, Fourteenth in
fantry, was autographed yesterday at
the Railroad House.
Col. A. W. Preston, U. 8. A., is WIS.,
iting San Francisco.
Col Geo. W. SchofeId, of the Tenth
cavalry, is attending the stanley-Hazen
court martial in New York.
Gen. Curier Grover, First cavalry, is
visiting in st. Louis.
Maj. Francis L. Town, surgeon, U.
8. a., is on his way from Washington
city to the department of Columbia, for
duty.
Col. VIM. B. Royal, Third cavalry,
acting assistant inspector general on
the staff of Gen. Crook, is on his semi
annual tour of inspection of the posts
in the department of the Platte, and
will be gone several weeks.
Lieut.. F. P. Gross, o. S. A, is visit
ing Newport, KY.
Lieut.. John P. Story, acting signal
officer, is in charge Of the signal office
at Washington during the absence Of
Gen. Myer, who is attending the meteor
illogical congress at Rome as the repre-
sentative of the United States.
Gen. A. A. Torbet, formerly of the
United States army, and latterly Unit
ed States consul general at Paris, is Wis
iting friends at Wilmington. Delaware.
Col. Alfred T. Smith, of the Eighth
infantry, and Lieut.. John W. Ross,
Twenty-irst infantry. sEe visiting
Frisco.
Gen. Geo. Sykes, colonel Twentieth
infantry, is lying dangerously i'll at
Fort Brown, Texas, where he is COM
handing the department of the Rio
Grande.
Capt. Edward D. Baker, U. S. A.,
has gone to New York as a witness in
the Stanley court martial, and during
his absence Capt. Josiah Chance, lieu
tenant Seventeenth infantry, is acting
as depot quartermaster at Bismarck,
Dakota. Capt. Baker expects to remain
east a couple of months.
Gen. James P. Brownlow died last
Saturday night at the residence of his
mother, at Knoxville, Tenn, and his
remains were removed to Franklin, in
the same state, on Monday, for burial.
Gen. Brownlow was a son of the late
PEARSON" Brownlow, ex-United States
senator, and was about thirty-eight
years of age. During the rebellion he
enlisted as a private in a Tennessee
union regiment Of cavalry. and eventu-
ally became lieut.. col. Of the First east
Tennessee cavalry. He was appointed
captain of the Eighth U. S. cavalry in
the fall of 1866, to date from July %,
1866, and served with the regiment In
Arizona and California until 1868, when
he resigned.
Gen. Alfred Sully, U. S. a., died at
Vancouver's Island on Sunday. Gen.
Sally was colonel of the Twenty first
infantry, and was a son of the eminent
Philadelphia artist, Thomas Sully. He
graduated at West Point, and served in
the regular army in the Florida and
Mexican wars. He was appointed col
onel Of the First Minnesota volunteers.
He distinguished himself in fighting
the Indians in Minnesota in 1868, and
was breveted Northumberland on
March 10, 1865. In 1865 he was placed
in command of the military district of
upper Missouri. He was one of the
many officers who served on this from
tier at the time of its early settlement,
and with the exception of his service in
the union army, spent most of his mill
tary life with our people, by whom he
was widely known and esteemed, and
by whom his death will be widely re-
GREETED. A true man and u gallant
soldier.