The National tribune., 1886-04-08
PERSONAL.

Gen Logan will visit California during the COM
ing GAR. Eneampment there
Gen and Mrs. John c. Fremont are in Washing
ton hard at work upon the Generals memoirs
Jessie Is nOminslly her husbands secretary. but
bears fully half the burden of arrangement of ma
terials and composition.
General Order issued by the War Department.
announces the following assignments: Mai -C;en
}. NJ. SchOfield to the Division of the Atlantic.
MaJ--Gen A. III. Terry to the Division Of the Mis-
souri, Maj.-Gen. o. o. Howard to the Division Of
the Pacific. Brg.-Gen. Crook has been relieved
from command of the Department Of Arizona at his
own request, and assigned to the Department Of
the Platte, formerly commanded by Gen. Howard
Brighten. \. \. Miles, now in command of the
Department of the Missouri has been assigned TO
the Department of Arizona
Col. G j. Chapman, the st. Louis RepuJi lean says
Is piing up pounds and ounces of avoird,i;.eia II
there should be another civil war he would find it
uiiiieuit to be dashing Lieutenant of artillery
again.
ne Ctah GAR is arranging grand reception
ior Gov. Murray before he leaves the Territory.
Gen. John A. McClernand had much reason to
fee that his long service for the Democratic party
and his brilliant record in the field would entitle
him to substantial consideration when the Demo-
Gratis returned to power. He was in Washington
recently, and is reported to have gone home very
much disguised because nothing better than the
Eoyernorship of Utah was offered him. which he
refused with some show of temper. 1t is now be-
heyed that he will be a candidate for Congress
against Hon. VIM. N. Springer
1t was generally expected that Col Wesley Mer-
ritt, 5th Cav. would be one of the new Brigadisr-
Generals and his friends are disappointed that the
President nominated Col. Potter, 9th Inf But the
latter will be retired in October and then there
yvTIl hxla oh,
Brighten. Jonathan A. Hill, the gallant COM
mander of the 1lth Me-. lost his right arm at the
battle of Deep Run, Aug 16, 1864 The limb Was
amputated improperly, and Gen. Hill has suffered
from the wound until the present time. second
amputation has just been performed Of the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital
At the last meeting of the Union Veteran Cornz
Old Guard, of Washington, the resignation of Capt
.. f. Duffy, on account of business was rendered
and accepted, and Lieut. James NJ Edgar was
unanimously elected Captain. Capt Edgar is An
Old soldier having enlisted as private in the Ist
CAL Col T. d. Baker, in May. 1861. At the battle
OF Balls Bluff, Va, ne captured in a hand-to-
hand contest over the body of Col Baker and con-
fined in Libby Prison for over seven months. He
resigned his commission in 1865, after being in
active service nearly four years. Capt Edgar has
been connected with the Union Veteran Corps since
Its organization in 1880. He is also Past Com
mander of Kit Carson Post, GAR.
The following promotions will follow those Of
Coils. Kruger and Potter to be Brigadier-GeneraIs:
Lieut-Col J. e. Yard. 9th Inf to be Colonel 18th
Inf. He was commissioneda Second Lieutenant in
the 9th U. S. Inf, from California in 1861. and
served through the war with that regiment Lieut.
Col. Zenas Il. Bliss, 10Th Inf, to be Colonel 9th
Inf He graduated from West Point in 1854; served
during the war as Colonel of the 10th R. L., and
affprward of fba r NIa; d
Inf, to be Lieutenant Colonel, 24th Inf In May,
1861 he was commissioned First Lieutenant and
AdJutant, 18th Pa, but soon after was made First
Lieutenant 18th q. S. Inf. Maj. w. H Jordan, Sd
Inf, to be Lieutenant Colonel 18th Inf He served
through the war in the 9Th Inf, and as Major Sth
Cal. Capt John y. Andrews, Sth Inf, to be Major,
2lst Inf. He served in the war in the sth Inf and
was brevetted Lieutenant -CoIenel March I3 1865,
for gallant and meritorious services Capt. George
E. Head, Sd Inf, to be Major. same regiment. He
was commissioned in the Regular Army from
Massachusetts. in 1851 and served in the llth Inf
First Lieut.. G. A. Earnest, Sth Inf to be Captain
same regiment. He served during the war as pri-
vate, Co. G, I'd Ohio, and Sergeant Lieutenant and
Captain, Seth Ohio First Lieut. John P. Thornp-
son, Sd Inf, to be Captain, same regiment. During
the war he was private, Co. 1, 1st Z. /. Cav. and
Second Lieutenant, 1st y. II. Cav. First Lieut..
John l. Bulls, 9th Inf, to be Captain. He was
OOi pJidi To- II, l-Us1 AIlu Naptd!n, 1lotn
Z. s. c. I.
While seated in the barber Shop OF the Ebbitt
House Saturday Commodore Truxtun of the
Navy. was seized with ep.leptic fit andfe to the
floor In falling he cut his head severely. Com
modore Truxton has been recently retired.
Gen. Hazen, Chief of the Signal Service Bureau,
is having lively time with those who are AFTER
him in regard to the accounts of the Bureau. In
his testimony he declared that he had never ex-
pended dollar of public money improperly or,
IS he thought without authority. He had tried to
improve the service in every way, and in doing
he might have seemed extrayagant but he had
never knowingly or willfuIiy misappropriated
cent. Gen. Hazcn said that for long time he had
been reentlessly pursued by designing and IN
friendly persons, who had never ceased, by cal
unlny and Misrepresentation, to seek his injury
Certain newspapers, he sad had uujustly and
Indignantly assailed him. and he believed they had
done much to create in the public mind prejudice
against him.