People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-15
GENERAL HOWARD RETIRED.
The Noted Soldier Passes the Statutory

The Noted Soldier Passes the Statutory
Age Limit-His Active Career.
NEW YORK, Nov. AT midnight
last night, Major General Oliver Otis
Howard, 1.-THE Christian hero" was
placed on the retired list of the
United States army, having reached
the statutory limit of age. This will
cause vacancy in the grade of major
general, to which Brigadier General
Thomas 81. Ruger of the department
OF the Pacific may succeed if his claim
is respected.
Oliver o. Howad was admitted as a
cadet in the United States military
academy at West Point on Septem-
Der l, 1850, and graduated on July 1,
1854. He was stationed at Wester-
vliet arsenal, with the rank of second
lieutenant fr one year, and then
was transferred to Kennebec arsenal
as command r. During the Seminole
Indian hostllities in Florida in 1857.
he was chief of ordnance on the staff
OF General Harvey, and from 1857 to
1861 was assistant professor of mathe-
mates at West Point academy. He
took command of the Third Maine
regiment of volunteers. His commits
sion as colonel bears the date Of Nav
Is, 1861, and by September 3 of the
same year he was major general of
volunteers. He was twice severely
wounded, and lost his right arm.
During the Pennsylvania campaign,
June to September, 1863 he com.
manded the Eleventh corps of the
Army OF the Potomac, and was highly
commended by General Meade for
choosing and occupying, at the battle
OF Gettysburg, the position on Gem
etery Ridge, for which action he also
received the thanks of congress.
Major General Howard was commits
stoned brigadier general in the regu-
lar army on December 81. 1864. and
on March 10, 1865, received his brevet
major generalship 'for gallant and
meritorious services at the battle of
Ezra Church, and during the cam
paign against Atlanta, Ca"
After the close of the war, during
the first year of the era of recon-
struction, General Howard was ap-
pointed commissioner of the bureau
OF refugees, freedmen and abandoned
lands, and remained in that capacity
until June 80, 1872. The mismanage-
ment OF this department during the
time that he was at its head is a mat
ter OF history, and it is the one thing
which for a time threatened to be re-
membered TO his discredit. But he
has lived down the adverse criticism.
and refers now with pleasure and
pride to his acts while at the head of
that department. In February, 1872,
he was appointed special Indian COM
missioner to the hostile Apaehes of
New Mexico anu Arizona, and in Sep
TENDER, 1874, was assigned to the de-
partment of the Columbia.
Indian fighting from then until
January, 1881, when he was assigned
to the Command of the department of
West Point and superintendent of the
United States Military academy, had
not changed General Towards ideas
as to the possibility of Outstanding
the Indians, and despite his many en-
counters with them he is still of the
opinion that under. the proper influ-
ences, by the employment of correct
methods, much good in the Indian
may be developed. General Howard
came to Governors Island from the
department of the Platte, to which he
was assigned in July, 1882. The emp
ty sleeve attests his bravery, while
numerous gifts and honorable men,
lions show that his services we're ap-
preciated