Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09
ACE TM THE ARMY.
Sone OF the Nota hles In the Service Among
the Seniors and Juniors.

SSON0S Oh C0e ~ 3niSS LII the service Among
the Seniors and Juniors.
The Oldest Captain on the active list
Of the army IS Capt. Pollock, OF the
21st Infantry; he will be IS years old
during the month. The oldest Lieu
tenant is P. P. Barnard, of the 9Th
Calavery, who is 81, being twenty years
older than his Colonel. The oldest
Lieutenant OF Artillery is F. c. Nichols,
OF the LIST. who is 81 years OF age. The
senior Major on the active list in point
of years is Edward Collins, of the 9Th
Infantry, who is 60 years. He entered
he service in 1916 as & private in the
battalion of engineers, and has been in
the service ever since that time. Bre-
vet Brig. Gen. Joseph N. G. Whistler,
Of the 9Th Infantry, is the oldest Lieu
tenant Colonel in the line Of the army;
he is 81; and Lieu. Col. John Hanli.
ton, Of the 9Th, who is 81, is the oldest
Of his grade in the artillery, Gen. H,
j. Hunt, the senior Colonel OF artillery,
now retired, will be IS years Of age
during this month. Gen. Gilbert,
Colonel of the 18th Infantry, is the old
est colonel Of his arm Of the service, be
ing 60, and John ?. Hatch, of the &c
Cavalry, is the senior in years in the
cavalry. The youngest Major Genera;
is Schofeld, and the eldest is Pope
who is 81. Hancock is So; he retires ir
1888. Mackenzie is the youngest I3ri.
gadier General in the army; be is now
43 and retired, and Miles, the next, i
is. While promotion is slower in som.
respects in our army than in any mil
itary service in Europe, yet there i.
neither in England nor ION the CONT
nent" an officer of Gen. Mackenzie't
age, "outslde of royal Blood" who has
attained his rank. Anger is the oldest
Brig adler General and is 63. A Brig
adler General will be appointed next
year Major General and a Brigadier
in 1856, and likewise in 1888.
The youngest Colonel of artillery is
Ayres; Of cavalry, Merritt, who is
A3. and of infantry, Pennvpacker. who
is A. The youngest Lieutenant Colonel
on the staff Of the army is j. NJ. Whit
temore, of the ordnance, and Nor.
row, of the cid Cavalry, is the young,
est Lieutenant Colonel in the line. S.
E. Tillman, professor of chemistry,
mineralogy and geology at West Point
has the correlative rank of Lieutenant
Colonel; he is 36 years old, the young
est of the grade in the United States
army. The youngest Major in the army
is William Il. Smith, of the Pay De.
partment, who is 80; George R. Smith,
of the 18th Infantry, who graduated
from West Point in 1875, is 8 few
months older. Ohio W. Budd, who
graduated from West Point in 1878, is
the Youngest Captain Of Cavalry, and
F. r. Green, and Carl F. Paldrey are
the youngest in the Crops of En- ineers.
The average Of age Of Captains of Ar.
tillery is 43, and in cavalry and infant
ry about A. 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 commits
sions; Adjutant General Drum and
Surgeon General Crane are So years
old, and Paymaster General Rochester
and Commissary General Macfeeley are
59. The oldest retired officer of the
Army is Gen. W. s. Harvey, who wss
born in the last century, and who en-.
tered the service in 1918. He lives at
st. Louis, and is accounted the wealth.
lest man in the army.