St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

tlnction in Florida and Mexico; was
brigadier general of volunteers. COM
handing the Pennsylvania reserves at
Fredericksburg.
Lieut.. Israel B. Richardson gained
the s~oubriquet of Fighting Dick" in
the Mexican war, became colonel of the
Second Michigan, major general of vol
unteers, and was killed at Antietam.
Capt. Oliver j. Shepherd vas gallant
in Mexico. and retired as colonel of toe
Fifteenth infantry and brevet b%rlgadier
general.
William T. H. Brooks, brevetted in
Mexico, was b%rIgadier general III the
civil war.
Andrew W. Bowman, brevetted in
Mexico, died as lieutenant colonel of
the Thirty-first infantry,
John Z. McFerren, brevetted for gal
lantry i'll Mexico, died as lieutenant
colonel aud deputy quartermaster
general.
Edwin B. Rabbit, brevetted for gal
lantry in the Mexican wal in 1865, re-
tired as colonel and assistant quarter
master general.
Henry b. Clilz, brevetted for gal
lantry in Mexico and in the Civil war,
and retired as colonel of the Tenth iu-
! fantry.
! Capt. John D. Wilkins. b~revetted for
gallantry in Mexico; retired as colonel
of the Fifth infantry.
Joseph n. q. Whistler, brevetted for
| gallantry in Mexico and the Civil war;
was colonel of the Second New York
artillery, and was brevetted brlgadier
general; retired as colonel of the Fiji
teenth infantry. He served many
years in the department of Dakota.
First Lieutenant William ID. Whilple
was breVetted in Mexico and in tn e
Civil Wal for conspicuous %gallantry is
a brevet major general, colonel, A. A.
e., and is on the retired list.
William II. Jordan retired az coloneI
of the Nineteenth.
Capt. George E. Head retired as col
onel of the Fourteenth infantry.
! Capt. Dangerfield Parker, lieutenant
colonel Thirteenth infantry.
Capt. William H. Penrose, lieutenant
colonel Sixteenth infantry.
Capt. Jacob F. Kent, lieuteD ant col
onel Eighteenth infantry.
Lieut.. Col. Horace Jewett, colonel
Twenty-first infantry.
Capt. John H. Page, lieutenant colonel
Twenty-second infantry.
Whether the Third infantry or any
of the organizations merged into il was
with MAD Anthony" Wayne during
his brilliant career in the Revolution,
commencing DIS COlOIGl vi lu6 fOurIn
Pennsylvania in 1776. it is fruitless now
to inquire. ''Where Wayne went there
was 4 fight always, and that was his
business" was a saving in those days,
and it is apparent that whenever there
was to be a fight the Third was on hand
to take part III that business.
Harmar having failed in his cam
paigns, Wayne was called from civil
life, to which he had returned after the
Revolution, to organize for his campaign
of 1884 resulting in the battles at
Fort Adams (after wards known as Fort
Defiance), Fort Wayne and other points.
1t was after the close of this cam
paign that the Third was given its pres
ent designation, viz. Nov. 1. 1896. The
Indians called Wayne the Tornado"
because he drove and Frustrated every
thing before him. His own soldiers
called him MAD Anthony" because of
the impetuosity of his charges.
TO Howard greatest honor was due
for the NeZ Perces canpaign-to How.
ard, the only living officer thanked by
| congress by name for gallant services
in war.