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teristics even when a boy. In 1860,
when there seemed to be some prospect
Of civil war, he joined in with num-
Der of other young men and formed an
organization which took military in
structions from an old French officer.
He was therefore fairly we'll trained in
military matters when hostilities broke
out, and upon enlisting was made cap
tain in the Twenty second Massachu-
sets infantry.
With this regiment he joined the
Army of the Potomac and served
throughout the peninsula campaign. he
attained the rank of colonel in the short
space of two months, when he was but
% years old
At Fredericksburg he was wounded in
the neck, and at Charlottesville receiv-
ed a severe wound in the groin and leg,
being so badly hurt that he had to he
carried from the field. This injury kept
Miles from active service for some time,
and it was due to it that he was not
present at the battle of Gettysburg, the
only important engagement in which
the Army of the Potomac took part at
which he was not present. At Spottsyl-
vania he was in the thick of the fight,
and in the closing operations of the war,
including the action at White Oak Ridge
and the pursuit of Lee, Miles still further
distinguished himself. When the war
closed, he was brevetted brigadier gen
eral of the regular army in special rec
IGNITION of his services at Chancellors-
Vile Later he received full commits
sion as brigadier general of volunteers
for his services at the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania
When there was no more fighting to
be done in the south, Miles having sig
nifled desire to continue his military
career, he was made a colonel in the
regular army and assigned to command
the Fortieth infantry. In 1869 he was
transferred from that command TO the
Fifth infantry. Application was made
by the interior department in 1874 to the
war department for punishment of hos
tile Indians wherever found, and it was
then that Miles career as an Indian
fighter began Before the year was over
he had inflicted exemplary punishment
upon the Kiowas, Comanches and Chey-
ennes in southern Kansas, III 1875, and
shortly after the Custer massacre, Miles
and his regiment were ordered to the
Yellowstone valley, in eastern Montana.
Generals Terry and Crook We're in the
field, but had not succeeded in doing
much, although they had 4 900 soldiers.
Soon after Miles arrival they withdrew,
and then, late in the fall, Miles began
his campaigns against Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse. In 1877 Miles did excel
lent work along the Red water, among
the Wolf mountains and in the Rosebud
valley, and in the same year practically
wiped out the Nez Perces, under Chief
Joseph. In 1878 he castigated the Ban
nocks. The next winter he passed III the
east as a member Of the army equipment
board, but III 1879 he did more aud eff
fective Indian lighting.
Shortly after his victories in 1879 he
was made brigadier general III the
regular army, and was III command at
first of the department Of the Columbia
and then the department of the Mis-
souri,. IN 1856 and 1887 he captured
Geronimo after Crook had failed, and
was then AS igned 10 the division Of the
Pacific, and in 1890, On the death OF
General Crook, was made major general,
with headquarters a, Chicago. That
winter he bro Ike up the ghost dances in
Dakota, and since then there have been
no Indian disturbances wcrth mention
ing. He was placed in command Of the
department Of the east last year.
In 1868 General Miles was married to
Miss Mary Sherman, niece OF Senator
John sherman. Their daughter, Miss
Cecilia Miles, is a charming woman,
and the son, Sherman Miles, is sturdy
lad in his early teens,