Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-10
ARMY OFFICERS AGES.
Who Are the Seniors and Who the
Youngest Are.

Washington Correspondence Toledo Blade.
The oldest captain on the active list of
the army is Captain Pollock, of the
Twenty-Fi il infantry. He will be GA
years of age in September next. He was
"A colonel of volunteers during the war,
and came into the army as a first l%ieuten-
ant in 1866. The oldest lieutenant is p.
p. Barnard, of the Fifth cavalry, who is
63, being twenty years older than his
colonel. He also came into the regular
service from the volunteers, where he
was a captain and assistant. The Oldest
lieutenant of artillery is f. c. Nichols, of
the First, who is 60. He was a major of
volunteers. The senior major on
the active list, in point of years,
is Edward Collins, of the First
infantry, who is 80. He came into
the service in 1916 as a private III the
battalion of engineers, and has been in
the service eve since. He vas promoted
from a sergeant of engineers to a first
lieutenant of infantry in 1851. The old
est lieutenant colonel in the line of the
army is Brevet Brig-Gen. Jos. N. G..
Whistler, of the Fifth infantry, who is
81, and Lieut.. Col. John Hamilton, of
the Fifth, is 60, the oldest of his grade
in the artillery. Gen. H. j. Hunt is the
senior colonel of artillery. He will be
ga in September. Gen. Gilbert, colonel
of the Seventeenth infantry, is the Oldest
colonel of his arm of the service, being
81, and John p. Hatch, of the Second
cavalry, isthe senior inyears in thecavalry.
The youngest major-general is Schofield,
and the eldest is Pope, who is 81. Han
cock is 80, and %retires in 1888. Mac
kensie is the youngest brigadier-general
in thearmy; he is AZ, and Miles, the next,
is Al. Angler is the oldest brigadier-
general, and is G2. There will be a
brigadier-general made in 1885, a major
general and a brigadier in 1886, and
again in 1883. The youngest colonel of
artillery is Ayers; of cavalry, Merit,
who is AZ, and of infantry, Pennypacker,
who is Al. The youngest lieutenant
colonel on the staff of the army is j. M.
Whittemore, of the ordnance, and Nor
row, of the sixth cavalry, is the youngest
lieutenant-colonel in the line. S. f..
Tillman, professor of chemistry, mineral
ogy and geology, at West Point, has the
corrective rank of lieutenant colonel. He
is 50, and is, therefore, the youngest of
the grade in the United States army.
The youngest major in the army is Will
liam III. Smyth, of the pay department,
who is 80, and George r.. Smith, late
of the Twelfth infantry, who
graduated from West Point in
1875, being only "A few months
older. The youngest captain of cav
airy is Ohio w. Budd, who graduated
from West Point in 1868, and F. v.
Greene and Carl F. Palfrey are the
youngest in the corps of engineers. The
average age of captains of artillery is AZ,
and in cavalry and infantry about 40. In
tho general staff of the army the young
est general officer is Gen. Bennett, chief
of ordinance, who is 90, and the senior
in date Of commission. Adjt-Gen. Drum
and Surgeon General Crane, are %, and
Paymaster General Rochester, and Com
missary- General Macfeely are both 81.
The oldest retired officer in the army
is Gen. w, 5. Harvey, who was born in
the last century,, and who entered the
army in 1878, He lives at st.
Louis, and is probably the richest man in
the army. Next to Gen. Harvey in
years is Gen. Pitcairn, colonel of the
Eighth infantry in 1861, who entered
the service in 1920. Gen. Hunter
entered in 1922 and Gen. e. b. Alexan-
der, who was colonel of the Tenth in
fantry when he retired, graduated from
the Military Academy in 1928. Gen.
Day also graduated in 1923 and retired
as colonel Of the Sixth infantry in 1868.
While promotion is slower in some re-
spects in our army than in any service
in Europe, yet there is neither in Eng
land nor ON the Continent All officer of
Gen. Mackenzie's age, outside of royal
blood, who has attained his rank.