St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-22
HAYES OLD UohMANDER.
The Ex-President Speaks OF Per-
canal - Snnuina IIndar GrnnE

The Ex-President Speaks OF Per-
sonal Service Under Crook.
FREMONT, o., March 21.-Gen. Hayes
leaves for Chicago tomorrow morning
to attend the funeral Of Maj. Gen.
Crook. He was very much affected by
the sudden death of his commander,
and referred to his distinguished serv-
ices as brigade commander under Nc
Clellan in 1862; as a favorite cavalry
commander under Sherman In 1868, and
again in the Five Forks campaign as
one of Sheridan's cavalry commanders
In 1865. OF his personal service with
him the general said: 1.-The first COM
mander in the field IN the Army Of West
Virginia in the year 1864, the first battle
year of the war, was Gen. Crook.
the four years of the war Gen.
Crook belonged to this army.
He served with it as the head of regl-
ment, of a brigade, of division, of an
army corps, and as its cOmmander-in-
chief. He was always favorite of the
officers and men of his command. The
gallant Thirty-siXth Ohio, and indeed
the whole of the old Kanawha' divis-
ion, knew him like book, and
Loved Him Like a Brother.
''In his intercourse, both with officers
and privates, he was a model command
er. He never sought or seemed to care
for popularity. But it came to him nat
urally, and because it was due to him.
The volunteers in the rankS-the PLAIN
men who carried the muSket-believed in
him, trusted him and knew him to be
their friend. He appreciated their char
acter and the motives that led them to
enlist in the army. To Gen. Crook
the private soldier was not only a
part of a machine out a fellow man, in
Urnsically the equal IN intellect and of
worth of the officer who commanded
him. Without lowering or loosening
the reins of discipline, he treated his
SubordinateS according to this high and
enlightened estimate of them. His Off
GERS and men soon found that to the ad-
vantage of his West Point education, OF
his ten years. service in the regular
army. he added energy, courage,
promptness, enterprise and instructive
and marvellous knowledge of the condi-
tion and design of the army. and mill
tary common sense which mark the
natural-born soldier. | need not repeat
his military history. You are familiar
with large and honorable part of it
[ mean that part of it which be-
longs also to the history of the
Army of West Virginia. But his mill
tary record did not begin and does not
end with the history of our army. or
with that of the war for the Union. Be-
fore the Rebellion he was engaged in
Indian wars beyond the Rocky mount
aims, and since the end of the great
civil conflict by his daring, his fOrtitude,
his sagacity and his success in the liz
dian wars of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho. Arizona and other Western states
and territories. he has won high place
among the leaders eminent in our
Warfare Against the Indians.
sour pride in our beloved commander
does not permit us to stop here. Gen.
Crook has gone beyond most, and, per-
hapS, beyond all, others in his wisdom,
his humanity and in the attain
ment of beneicent results in
his dealings with the tribes
he has conquered in war. No states
man or philanthropist in his closet has
framed theories for uplifting the red
man which in spirit and aim are more
worthy just, generous and powerful
nation than the practical measures
which Gen. Crook has devised, and in
spite of disbursement and formidable
obstacles has carried out into actual ad.
mnistration. Entitled to the wreath
that encircles the brow of of the hero in
war, he also achieved the pure fame
which belongs to him who, taking the
part of weak, injured and almost
friendless people, has mad the supreme
and equal chance in the race of life. Ali
honor, therefore. to our comrade, Gen.
Crook, tn favorate hero of the Army OF
west Virginia"