St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-01

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to proceed to his home and wait retire.
ment. In view of the facts that Col.
Dudley will not be eligible for retire
ment, by operation of law, until Aug.
20 next, and that the Geographic 1nfor-
nation which enables us to make the
announcement is silent as to the
reasons which have influenced the sec
rotary of war to set his official seal to
the action stated, it is thought that Col.
Dudley may have availed himself of the
thirty years service law, and requested
to be retired. However this may be,
the colonel has kept his own council in
the matter and his most intimate friends
will read of the fact stated with as much
genuine surprise as the most remote
officer or soldier in the service. Col.
Dudley is native of Massachusetts,.
His military history, which is one of the
most enviable on the records of the war
department, dates from March 3, 1855,
when he was commissioned first lieu
tenant in the Tenth United States in
fantry, which veteran regiment he
helped to Organize-the dates of the
regiments birth and the iieutenant's
commission being Identical. Entering
Immediately upon active service in the
field, Lieut.. Dudley took part in the
Sioux Indian expedition of that year.
In the bloody action of Ash
Hollow, where he was in COM
mand of his company, and in the
defeat of the Cheyenne Indians at
Platte Bridge, Neb., he displayed such
heroism and yalOr as won for him con-
spicuous recognition. In 1867 he par
tfcipated in the famous expedition from
Fort Laramie, OAK, to Fort Smelling.
MInn., and subsequently commanded
his company in the trouble with the
Spirit Lake Sioux Indians. Having
his promotion to a captaincy occurred
May T, 1861, when he was ordered to
Washington for provost duty, which
engaged his services until he received
his commission as colonel of the Thir-
tieth Massachusetts volunteers, to date
from March 1, 1862. In the lombard
ment of Forts Jackson and st. Philip,
and i'm the occupation of New Orleans,
Col. Dudley commanded a brigade, and
during May and June, 1862; he was
military commander of the city. He
cOmman led brigade in an expedition
to Vicksburg. and with the batteries of
his regiment participated in the fight
during the passage of Farragut's feet
at Xieksburg. After the death of Gen.
Williams. Col. Dudley commanded the
right wing of the Union forces and
after taking part in the battle of Baton
Rouge. commanded the defenses of
New Orleans. At the solicitation of
the war department he was assigned to
duty as Inspector general of the Depart
nIent Of the Gulf, after which he was
placed in command of an expedition to
,Inof will, Sc
fleet. The year 1868 was busy one,
and it's close found him chief of staff to
Gen. Banks, whom he accompanied in
his Texas expedition. In September,
1864. he was commissioned major in the
Fifteenth infantry. He was success
lively breyetted major, lieutenant colo
mel and bEigadier genera, for gallant
and meritOriOuS service. and i'll 1865 he
was assigned 20 command according to
his brevet rank Of general. commanding
at Tullahoma. and in the Freedmen'S
bureau until December, 1865. Joining
the Fifteenth infantry in 1868, at
Vieksburg, he assumed command of
that post, which he retained until, in
1869, he became unassigned" by the
reorganization of the army, and which
status he occupied from March Is. 1869,
to- Dec. Is, 1870, when he was assigned
to the Third cavalry. His promotion
TO the grade of lieutenant colonel car
ried him to the Ninth cavalry in July,
1876, from which regiment he was pro-
NOTED colonel of the First cavalry June
6, 1885. Col. Dudley practically ceases
his connection with the army from this
date. He carries into retirement the
sincere esteem of his brother officers
and the troops VINO have had the honor
to be under his command or profession
ally associated with him. The colonel
is well and fayorably known in st.
Paul. The following promotions will
take place i'll the event of the imme-
diate retirement OF Col. Dudley: Lieut..
Col. j. G. Tilford. Seventh cavalry, to
the colonelcy of the First cavalry; Mai.
Caleb II. Carlton, Third cavalry, TO the
lieutenant colonelcy of the Seventh
cavalry, and Capt. James Jackson, First
cavalry, to be major of the Third
cavalry.
First Lieut.. Quincy o. M. Gilmore, regi-
mental quartermaster Eighth cavalry, Fort
Meade. Oak. has been designated by the de-
partment commander to receive and distrib-
ute eightyope horses for the cavalry service,
To be delivered at Fort Meade under con-
tract with Henry Wyttenbach.
The commanding officer of Fort Meade,
mounted service recruits for the Eighth cav
airy ordered to that post yesterday from the
recruiting rendezvous in St. Paul SO as to
equalize the troops of bis command.
Capt Edgar A. Mearns, assistant surgeon
U. S. army was last evening ordered relieved 4
from duty at Fort Smelling and to proceed
at once to Fort Pernbina, Oak, and relieve
Surgeon Ebert, who is dangerously i'll at that
post.
The commanding officer of Fort Smelling
has been directed by the department COM
mander to send recruits John Wise, James
Nolan and Frank RUSSELL 'Tw eIty-seeond
infantry, TO their destination-Fort Totten,
Oak.
Acting Assistant Surgeon William Shipper,
U. S. army. has been ordered to proceed from
Fort Yates to Fort Buford, Oak, and report
to the post commander for duty.
No change is reported in the prevailing
epidemic OF sore throat at Fort Buford.
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