The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-12
[M[IjIBS A MODERN N|S0IDIBl|| J, ii. m
The Struggles That One Of Our.
Generals Had in Order to
Gain Position. :.s5.s:s:
A Poor Boy Working His WV Il.
From crockery Store .sS}.I
to Fame. I .I.5SS
He Liked the Army Life and Con-
sequently Won His Name
and Laurels.

sequently Won Ills Name
and Laurels.
General Nelson A. Miles is writing his
memoirs He has been writing at the
book for months. and has 1t now almost
completed 1t will cotain 100000 words,
and will be profusely illustrated by FEED
erick Remington and other American ar
lists, writes Frank G. Carpenter in tile
Chicago Times-Herald It's title will be
From New England to the Golden Gate"
and in it will be found perhaps the most
remarkable series of adventures ever Civ
en- to the American public. The plain
facts of General Niles career read like
o novel. His whole life has been sem
sational romance. General Miles began
his life as a farmers boy. His West
Pont was a crockery store in Boston. One
of his rich uncles offered to make him
financially Independent if he would give
up his ambition to- be a soldier, and it was
only by taking all the money he had
saved and all he could borrow that he
was able, at the age Of 21, to raise the
company which enabled him to go to the
army as a first lieutenant. This was at
the beginning of the civil war, and FROM
that as starting point in the short space
of four years his wonderful military ge-
MUS elevated him with lightning rapidity
from one position to another, until at %;
he had become major general, and had
risen to the highest lineal rank in the
army.
He was in every one Of the battles of
the Army of the Potomac except Gettys-
burg, where he could not be on account
of the desperate wounds which he had
received at CIlancellorville, and which
the surgeons had said would cost him his
life. He was always in the, thickest of
the fight, and all of the generals from
Grant to Burnside recommended him
many times for promotion. He was
wounded again and again, and he ceased
his fighting only when his hurts were
so great that he was unable to keep his
place upon his horse. At one time when
shot through the neck he put his hand
over the wound and was anxious TO again
lead his troops into battle. Still, he
never wantonly risked the lives OF his
men, and his coolness in scenes where
other men lose their heads, and his abu-
ity to take advantage Of every change
in position on the part of the enemy,
made the other officers consider this boy
general valuable ally.
The book will be full of Indian stories.
remained in the service and continued
to seek duty in the midst of the fray. His
life from 1865 until now has been one
round of successes based on bravery and
military skill. He has made himself mott
ed as the most famous Of the worlds
Indian fighters He is the only regular
officer who has conducted systematic
Indian cathpaign, and he has managed
eight, every one of them successful. No
other commander in history has ever
forced so large a band Of Indians to sur
render in battle as he. None have been
in so many Indian engagements and none
have won in fights more desperately co1l-I
tested Some of his Indian campaigns
have been filled with adventures which
would make books in themselves fTheY4
have been in all extremes of the climate.
His first and last were in lands 80 hot
that his men, crazed with thirst, opened
the veins of his arms In order that they
might moisten their lips with their own
blood. Others were amid the snowstorM ms
of a northern winter, where the men were
SO clad in furs that they could not be-
told one from another He put down the
gigantic Messiah conspiracy which promo
ised to involve all the tribes and make
an Indian war greater than ever ,before
had : !. s III .ssls3. +. b ssSSs .ss III
General Niles book will tell the story
of the conquest Of the great west, and .ola
the building up. OF the empire beyond tlhes
Mississippi: A part Of the book Will treAts
Of matters regarding the Indians. l
General Miles was asked: !: wv here did
you first get Your. desire for q n1'sitaarys &
life?' n s5ssSsS saas
.7 4 Adon't know that, he replied. ;:stta
wanted to be a soldier from my bOYh0gd.
/ can remember the desire as far 5backsAa
alt 10 years Of age. and at II !. when IsIyas
clerking in Boston,. Joined a mi
school and drilled there for several syeafaa
This was just preceding the war;. Thes
Kansas Nebraska struggle was on, nd
the air was filled with the rumors and
threats OF the coming fight, rernesnlE..1
Der L used to go to the library and
southern papers, and III could seeyssss sI
thought, that war was sure 10 conn
remained II this tli1taly school a1sl