The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-20

baeracks Intss be NJ ct Fort eesilaooom- In
11Ge h served with distinction in . campaign
against ths Indians in Oregon On Nay -, 1S6l,
be W. appointed major in the Fourteenth In
fAntzy, nd wm for time commandant Of
cadets q West Point In November OF that
year BE- BEGAN his brilliant services in the civil
wax. being commissioned . breadier general Of
yolunteeu, and joining McDowell's corps. In
July, le62, H was assigned to . division undef
General Banks, and In the battle Of Cedar
Mountain, August :, was severely wounded.
He ut IN the military court that in
vestigated DE surrender Of Harpers Ferry.
Later he was promoted 70 major gen
eral, and In November, 1852, joined nis
corps and took part in the Louisiana campaign.
At the dege Of Port Hudson he commanded the
left wing Of the army, aud for meritorious SER
vices on that occasion he wes brevetted briga-
dicf general In thu United States army March
Ii, 1855, receiving on the same date the breyet
Of MAJOR general. for services in the field during
the rebellion. From October Il, 1863, to August
Is. 1864. he was commandant Of the Department
Of Warrington: from January Is. 1867, TO No
yembcr Is, 1871. Of the Department Of the
Platte; then Of the Department Of Texas until
March, 1875: Of the Department of the Gulf unlil
July !, 1878, and subsequently OF the Department
Of the south and the Department Of the
Missouri In 1855, six years ago, he was retired.
General Augur's hair, and his beard-cut after
the fashion called for General Burn side-are
now snowy white; his step is little slow, but
he r. still every inch . soldier. The finely
shaped head, the firm mouth, clear-cut aquifine
nose, and deep set eyes, look as they did In the
handsome portraits taken years ago.
.My class at West Point" said General Augur
last night, twas the one In which Grant was
graduated, and afterwards went into the same
regiment with him. Grant developed no great
name until the civil war. though / remember
that a. boy be always had the perseverance,,
the energy and the sound sense which won him
distinction In later years. He had a bent for
mathematics at West Point and did well In
them, but at graduation he stood twenty-irst in
. class Of thirty -nine-below the middle.
ave went into the Fourth infantry together
after graduation and fought through the Next
can war. Then in 1852 we came to Vancouver
together. He was then lieutenant. In 1853 he
was appointed captain Of company stationed
at Humboldt Bay, California, and was trans
ferred to Fort Steilacoom.
"The country was very rough in those days
Seattle was logging camper little more
while Olympia was the principal city on the
Sound. ] never came to Seattle then.
though I often heard of Its fine harbor,
which was talked OF good DEAL
In those days people used to say Seattle's harbor
would make 1t the terminus of any railroad
which might come to the sound. recall that
in the early ffties General McClellan-he was
mot then gencral-surveyed a route for rail-
road running east from Seattle through the Sno-
Qualmie pass in the Cascades"
General Augur IL returning to Washington
City from Southern California, and he leaves the
CITY today