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

lantry in Mexico; brevet brigadier gen
eral in 1865. Washington Irving edited,
amplified and published his expeditions
in the Rocky mountains In 1876; COM
manded at Santa Fee in 1867, and the
department of New Mexico.
Col. William Hoffman entered the
army a lieutenant in 1929; served in
Kansas and in the Black Hawk war and
in Mexico, where he was brevetted for
g~allantry; served in the Sioux and Utah
expedition and in Texas, where he was
made a prisoner of war; was exchanged
in 1862, and appointed colonel of the
Third, land served as commisSary of
prisoners; was brevetted brigadier and
major general in 1865.
Lieut.. Col. David Brearly was arrest
. ed by the British, charged with high
treason, but was set free by a mob OF
his fellow citizens: was chief justice of
New Jersey, United States judge, mem
Der of the constitutional convention in
1887. and one of the compilers of the
Episcopal prayer book.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas S. JeSup, adiu-
tant general to Gen. Hull, was brevetted
for bravery at Chippewa and Niagara;
commanded the army in the Creek ma
ton in 1886, and then in FlOrida; was
wounded in the Seminole war. when he
was relieved by Gen. Zachary Taylor,
and brevetted ~brigadier and major gen.
eral.
Col. George w. Getty entered the
army in 1910, was brevetted for gal
lantry in Mexico; served in the Seminole
war and in Kansas, and took a brilliant
part throughout the civil war; brevetted
major general in 1865; commanded the
troops Ill the Baltimore 81 Ohio riots in
1877.
Col. John Miller, distinguished in the
wal of 1872, commanded the force from
Fort Meigs which destroyed the enc
my's batteries: was governor of Mis-
souri, in 1882, and twice elected to con-
gress.
Mai. William Butler Colonel of the
Fourth Pennsylvania in the Revolution
ary war; conducted the expedition of
ITS which destroyed the Indian settle
ments after the Wyoming massacre. He
was a brother of Col. Richard Butler,
killed at st. Glars defeat in 1871.
Lieut.. Col. George Gibson, Sol of the
commander of "Gibson's Lambs" in the
Revolution, grandson of John Gibson,
who served with Braddock, served in
the wal of 1912, and with jackson at
New Orleans, and was the head of the
commissary department for more than
fifty years.
Lieut.. Col. John Mcneil Jr. was noted
for his brilliant bayonet charge at Chip
pewa, for which he was brevetted brig
adler general.
Lieut.. Col. Backus, son of Gen.
Backus, who commanded and fell NOR
tally wounded at Sackett's Harbor,
served in the Seminole war. was brevet-
ted for gallentry in Mexico. and was
colonel of the Sixth in 1862.
Lieut.. Col. Frederick Steele had a
brilliant service in Mexico and on the
frontier; was major general of volun-
teers, serving in the southwest; colonel
Of the Twentieth infantry, and COM
manded the department Of Columbia.
Major Enos Cutter, who performed
gallant service in the war of 1912, served
with Jackson in the Creek war, and be
came colonel of the Fourth infantry.
Major Charles S. Lowell rose from
the ranks to the colonelcy of the Fourth
infantry and brevet brigadier general,
and won distinction in Me xic0 and
Civil var.
Maj. Cuvier Grover. brevet brigadier
general and colonel of the First in
fantry, won distinction in the army of
the Potomac, and commanded the North
ern Pacific exploring expedition in 1858.
Mai. Daniel Baker Won distinction in
the War of 1872 and Indian wars, be-
coming colonel of the Sixth infantry.
Mai. George A. Mccall achieved dis