Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-08-14
Army News.

Army News.
Lieutenant Colonel n. B. Sweitzer, 8th
Cavalry, starts for Springfield, H., early
next week to attend the encampment of
the Illinois National Guard and take obser-
vations there.
Captain j. A. p. Hampson, 10th U. 5.
Infantry, has succeeded Lieutenant Colonel
Douglass, 14th Infantry, in command of
the Cantonment on the Uncompahgre, Col.
Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Miner, 10th
U. S. Infantry, commanding at Fort Union,
n. NJ, celebrated his ffty-seventh birth
day on Friday, August 1st.
Captain J. F. Weston, e. S. A., lately ON
duty at Boston, has arrived at Prescott,
Arizona, and reported to Gen. Crook for
duty.
Major c. w. Foster, U. S. A., for some
time past awaiting orders at Baltimore,
goes to st. Louis, Mo-, in charge Of the
general depot of the O. NJ d. in that city.
George P. Ihrie, formerly Major and
Paymaster, U. S. A., has been appointed by
the President one of the Commissioners for
the District of Alaska, with residence at
Wrangel.
Assistant Quartermaster General Lud-
ington, U. S. A, is in negotiation for the
purchase of land suitable for National
cemetery in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
No appointments of Post Quartermaster-
Sergeants have yet been made under the
new law providing for the appointment of
eighty of these nOn-commissiOned staff
officers 1t has been decided that the ap-
pointments shall be made regimentally-
that is, from enlisted men in regiments
where the services of such sergeants are
required. Colonels of regiments will re-
commend to the Department the points
where the men are needed and under the
authority of the Quartermaster's Depart
ment boards will be convened at different
places from time to time to consider the
applications of the various candidates and
to examine them as to their fitness, ac-
cording to rules not yet determined upon
by the Quartermasters Department. The
names of the successful applicants will be
forwarded to the Quartermaster General
who will recommend to the Secretary OF
War their appointments in the order in
which they passed the boards.
A great many applications have already
been received by the Secretary of War
but as the QuaItermaster General has
charge of the entire matter of making The
selections, they are Immediately referred
to this Department The Secretary will
make the appointments only upon the re-
concentrations of that officer.
A NewburypOrt correspondent writes
Lieut.. Greedy is by no means man OF
imposing appearance. He is, indeed
directly the opposite. Tall, reaching a
height of full six feet, with narrow chest
thin, delicate hands, and feet almost small
enough for lady, complexion light, even
to paleness, although partially concealed
by a heavy brown English beard, thin
gaunt cheeks, blue eyes shaded by glasses
his whole figure presents the picture OF
life long student rather than hardy
soldier and explorer And yet beneath all
is the strong powerful will which never
bows down under opposition or despair,
and the fixed determination of adherence
to method and discipline. There is
the mental endurance which holds
sway over the physical" The same writer
had an interview with Lieutenant Greely's
aged mother, who speaks with great pride
and enthusiasm Of her son, and has innu-
merable anecdotes of him. She said: His
father and grandfather were both soldiers
in the War of 1921, and his father was also
Captain of the Washington Light Infan-
try. AdOlphus was wounded three times
His worst wound was received at Antietam
when bullet went into his mouth, cut
out four teeth and then came out of the
cheek He went to the Army hospital
and just to see his pluck. Nobody would
attend to him there, so he travelled thirty
miles to Harrisburg, Pa, walking part OF
the way, to the city hospital there. He left
that hospital before he was entirely well
Then he was wounded in the shin and in
the side. At Fredericksburg Gen. Burn
side ordered Adolphus's regiment over to
the city, and there the soldiers couldn't &c
out in the streets without getting fred al
from attic windows When Adolphus came
home on furlough he had seven bullet
holes in his coat. While there he had
command of his company although only
an orderly sergeant