The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-17
Age In the Army.

The oldest Captain on the active list
of the army is Captain Pollock, of the
Twenty-tirst Infantry; he will be 65
years old during the month. The old
est Lieutenant is p. p. Barnard, of the
Fifth Cavalry. who is g.. being twenty
years older than his Colonel. The old
est Lieutenant of Artillery is +. T..
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 Fifth Infantry. who is 90 years.
he ent cred the service in 1916 as a
private IN the batallion of engineers,
and has been in the service ever since
that time. Brevet Brigadier-General
Joseph y. G.. Whistler, of the Fifth In
fantry. is the Oldest Lieutenant-C Colonel
in the line of the army; he is 62; and
Lieutenant-CO Colonel John Hamilton, of
the Fifth, who is 81, is the oldest of his
grade in the artillery General HI. j..
Hunt, the senior Colonel of artillery.
now retired, will be o. years of age
during this month. General Gilbert,
Colonel of the Seventeenth Infantry, is
the oldest Colonel of his arm of the ser
vie, being 62, and John p. Hatch, of
the Second Cavalry, IS the senior in
years in the cavalry. The youngest
MAJOR General is Schoiield and the
eldest is Pope. who is o. Hancock is
6u: he retires IN 1888. Mackenzie is
the youngest Brigadier- General in the
army; he is now i3 and retired, and
Miles, the NEXT. is 40. While promo
ton is slower in some respects in our
army than in any military service in
Europe, yet there is neither in England
nor ION the continent" an officer of
General Mackenzie's age, ''outside of
royal blood" who has attained his
rank. Angler is the oldest Brigadier-
General, and is 63. A Brigadier-Gen-
eral will be appointed next year, a
Ma or-General and Brigadier in 1886,
and likewise in 1883.
The youngest Colonel of artillery is
Ayres; of cavalry, Merritt. who is 43.
and of infantry, Pennypacker. who is
f.. The youngest Lieutenant Colonel
on the staff of the army is j. Nj. White
more, of the ordnance, and Morrow, of
the Sixth Cavalry, is the youngest Lieu
tenant Colonel IN the line. :. f. Till
man, Professor of chemistry. mineralogy
and geology at West Point. has the cor
relative rank of Lieutenant-C Colonel; he
IS Sc years old, the youngest of the
grade in the United States army. The
Youngest Major in the army is William
III. Smith, of the Pay Department, who
IS 80: George X. Smith, of the Twelfth
Infantry. who graduated from West
Point in 1877. is few months older.
Ohio w. Budd. who graduated from
West Point in 1878, is the Youngest
Captain of cavalry, and +. V. Green
and Carl F. Palfrey are the youngest in
the corps of engineers. The average
of age of Captains of artillery is 43.
and in cavalry and infantry about Al.
In the general staff of the army the
youngest general officer is General
Benet, Chief OF ordnance, who is 81,
and the senior in date of commission;
Acknowledgement Drum and Surgeon
General Crane are 90 years old, and
Paymaster-GeneralR Rochester and Com
miSssry- General MacFeeley are 90.
The oldest retired officer of the army is
General 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 wealthiest
nan in the army.-SL Louis Globe
Democrat.