The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-14
CHIEFS FoR ST4EE DEPARTMENTS.
Retirement of Gen. HoInbIrd and Gen. Mac
feelI-Cnndldnteat to Anccneh Then

Aeurement OF een. HolnbIrd and Gen. Mac
fee1y-Candldates TO Succeed Them.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-On Monday. juno 16
Brig Gen. Samuel B. Holabrd, Quartermaster
General OF the army. retires for age. after Q
career Of nearly forty five years in the military
service. Appointed from Connecticut, his ma.
tive state. to the Military Academy, In 1S45 on
his graduation in 1s49 he was assigned to the
First Infantry and very soon began the special
service In which his life has chiefly been passed
serving as Regimental Quartermaster from
1907 to 1853 The following year. however, he
was made Adjutant at the Military Academy,
and there remained until the outbreak OF the
CIVIL war, whom he was transferred to the
2uartermaster's Department with the rank OF
SapLRaIh. he rose through tho grades and
reached his present rank about seven years
age. During the war he served with volunteers
ana received four brevets for faithful and meri-
There are half dozen candidates for the
vacancy to be created by his retirement prom
UuRfte Enong mem being the four assistant
ls Col Charles II. Tompkins. q native OF Nir-
ginie who passed two years, from 1S4f to 1s49.
later en- listed In the army. serving as private.
CORPORAL. and sergeant in Company +, First
outbreak Of the civil VII war Then he obtaHed
airy, was promoted to be First Lieutenant and
1867 no was Colonel Of the First Vermont Cav
al Fairfax Court House in 1881. and f Tor ser
vices In the campaigns of Banks and McDow-
Ell and as ouarteE%sster during the war He
:, Col Judson b; Bingham. Col Alexander j.
F n r1Ut and Col Henry e: Hodses who follow
envy the former in 1854 and the latter three
years earlier; and all. after serving in tho line
sar TO the
hhreyets. Col. Bingham, who is a native Of New
Is yermonter. Col Perry, who is from Con-
nsGticut retires In 1899.
tb me iirsf three officers in the grade below
tee and Rchard r. Bstcbed Ht''F The 0T two
In 1888 and 1854, and after service as Lieuten-
ANTS In the line were appointed to the Quarter
ss as CAPTAINS ssnIod May H.
3uaEtermaster of volunteers beginning with
the FIRST New Hampshire Infantry. and at the
service, He had seven brevets for faithful and
imeritorious services. Lleut-Col. Chandler re-
Lieut. Col Sawtelle in 1898,
The other vacancy at the head Of staff de-
partment will be created q fortnight later, July
l; 1871. when Brighton Robert Macfeely re-
tires for age His service covers iorty-fonr
years: including his career, at the Military
pointee from his native State OF Pennsylvania.
ne was Quartermaster OF the Fourth Infantry
When appointed to the Subsistence Denartme mt
at the outbreak OF the war In 1861. There he
rose through the grades, serving for a time with
the, volunteers and reached his present rank
little more than fifteen years ago. The Success
sion to his place has attracted little public at
tention. It being expected on all hands that the
prize will go to the officer next in rank, Col.
Beekman Du Barry nowAssistant Commissary-
General OF Subsistence. He Is native of New
Jersey and was appointed to the Military
Academy. from the District OF Columbia in
1915. graduating in 1S49. one year earlier than
Gen. Macfeely. now his superior. He then
served In the Third Artillery. and reached his
OF Gen. Macfeely. When appointed to the Sub
sistence Department in 1861 he was on duty at
the Military Academy as member OF the staff
OF instruction.
week after Gen. Macfeely's retirement will
come that OF third officer, Brig Gen. Grier-
sGn now S6 The the n Of
Sth Of July. 1t Is exceptional to find SO
many Appointments and rotirements of gem
eral officers falling within SO brief a period