Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-12
AGE IN THE ARMY.
Some of the NOtables in the Service
Among tho Seniors and .Juninrs

Some of the NOtables in the Service
Among the Seniors and Juniors.
The oldest Captain on the active list of
the army, says the Philadelphia Enquirer,
is Capt, Pollock, of the Twenty-first In
tantry; he will be 60 years old during the
month. The oldest Lieutenant is p. Z.
Barnard, of the Fifth Cavalry, who is Ga,
being 20 years older than his Colonel.
The oldest Lieutenant of artillery is F. G.
Nichols, of the First, who is 81 years of
age. The senior Major on the active list
in point of years is Edward Collins, of the
First Infantry, who is so years. He en-
tered the service IN 1916 as a private in
the battalion of engineers, and has been
in the service ever since that time. Bre-
vet Brig. Gen. Joseph N. G. Whist
Ter, of the Fifth Infantry, is the oldest
Lieutenant Colonel in the line of the army;
he is 81; and Lieut.-Col. John Hamilton,
of the Fifth, who is 81, is the oldest of his
grade in the artillery. Gen. II. j.
Hunt, the senior Colonel of artillery,
now retired, will be 65 years
of age during this month. Gen.
Gilbert, Colonel of the Seventeenth In
fantrY, is the oldest Colonel OF his arm of
the service, being 81, and John p. Hatch,
of the Second Cavalry, is the senior in
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General is Schofeld, and the eldest is
Pope, who is 81. Hancock is so. He re-
tires in 1888. Mackenzie is the youngest
Brigadier General in the army. He is now
43 and retired, and Miles, the next, is 40.
While promotion is slower in some re-
spects in our army than in any military
service in Europe, yet there is neither in
England nor son the Continent an officer
of Gen. MackenZie's age, "outsIde of
royal blood,'' who has attained his rank.
Angler is the oldest Brigadier General,
and is So. A Brigadier General will be
appointed next year, Major General
and a Brigadier in 1886, and likewise in
1888.
The youngest Colonel of artillery is
Ayres; of cavalry, Merritt, who is AZ, and
of infantry, Pennypacker, who is AZ. The
youngest Lieutenant Colonel on the staff
of the army is j. NJ. WhittemOre, of the
ordnance, and Morrow, of the Sixth Cav
airy, is the youngest Lieutenant Colonel
in the line. S. E. Tillman, Professor of
Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology at
West Point, has the cOrrelatlve rank OF
Lieutenant Colonel. He is SO years old, the
Youngest of the grade in the United States
army. The youngest Major in the army
| is William Il. Smith, of the Pay Depart
ment, who is 80. George Z. Smith, late of
the Twelfth Infantry, who graduated from
West Point in 1875, is few months older.
Ohio w. Budd, who graduated from
West Point III 1868, is the youngest Cap
tain of cavalry, and F. V. Green and Carl
F. Pulfrey are the youngest in the corps
of engineers. The average age of Cap
tains of artillery is 43, and in cavalry and
infantry Al. In the general staff of the
army the youngest general officer is Gen.
Benet, Chief of Ordnance, who is 81, and
| the senior in date of commissions. Adju-
tant Gen. Drum and Surgeon Gen.
Crane are SO years old, and Paymaster
Gen. Rochester and Commissary General
| Macfeeley are So. The Oldest retired
officer of the army Is Gen. W. 5. Harvey,
who was born in the last century, and
who entered the service in 1918. He lives
at St. Louis, and is accounted the wealth
! lest man in the army.