The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-08

Of the commander-in-chief of the British
army. In succession TO the Duke or
Cambridge,w were assumed by Field Mar
sinai Viscount Wolseley, IA distinguished
and brilliant soldier now in his sixty
third year. Thus, at the age of sixty.
four Schotield still hale and iii, has
gone into retirement in obedience to
law, while Wolseley, only few months
younger, and also hale and fit, although,
10 alter a trifle Corse's famous telc
gram from Allatoona-"Short Of Il chcck
bone and an eye" and otherwise miScci
laneously riddled. becomes comma ndcr-
IN. chief in Pail Mall for five years Ger
tain, and, probably, indeed for an In
definite period
Lord Wolseley comes from II good
i stofk The family of which he Is ~
scion is of great antiquity, the manor
or Wolseley having been in its posses
sion before the Norman Conquest. There
are two baronetcies in the family The
senior one dates from the period of
James l., and its present possessor. Sir
CHARLES Michael Wolseley, OF Wolseley,
stanordshire, is the ninth baronet,
whose wife Is an American lady--Auita
Theresa, daughter of the late Daniel r.
Murphy, of San Francisco A member
of the family TO whom the Irish prop
efty was devised was in lTiI, created a
h baronet of Ireland: and q desccndn nt
OF his, the late Major Garnet Joseph
Wolseley, 25th Borderers, was the
gather OF Lord Wolseley. The new com,
mander-in-chief can number among his
ancestry many stout and gallant sol
olerS. the most famous of whom greatly
distinguished himself under William
III. during the Irish war of l6S9-90.
having relieved the hardly pressed gar
rison of Enniskillen, he defeated at News
ton Butler greatly superior Irish ar
my, and he commanded his staunch
Enniskilleners in the memorial BILE battle
of the Boyne
l think II was the Duke of Wellington
himself who was responsible for the
saying that the battle of Waterloo
was won In the playing fields of Eton.''
Dung Wolselcy had no experience Of
any of the great public schools of Eng
land: but. nevertheless, in after life,
ne contrived to win battles. At quite
y an early age he was an aSsiduous stu
& dent OF military history. He was bent
8on becoming a soldier when Il mere
/ child, and he was scarcely in his teens
when his name was put down for Il
commission. Meanwhile he was en-
crossed in surveying and the aCQuisi-
ton of all knowledge of fortifCation,
military engineering, and Astronomical
Science, his proficiency in which became
of essential service TO him when. al
though an officer of infantry, he proved
his qualification for acting as an assist
ant engineer during the siege OF Sebas-
topol. Imbued with zeal and loyal am
bHion, he Very early in his career took
to heart the dictum of high historical
authority that no COMMUNICATIVE chief
is fit for his post who is not conversant
with military engineering"
JOINED THE SERVICE AT NINE
TEEN.
AT the age of nineteen Wolseicy
Joined the service in March, 1852 when
he received his commission in the S0tn
regiment, then engaged i'm the second
Burmese war. The regiment on service
mad sustained heavy loss by disease ana
warfare; and young Wolselcy was hur-
sried away TO the seat of war in charge
of detachment Of recruits An at
tempt on the part of a combined force
TO reduce the stronghold near Dona-
bew, of Burmese chief had mscar
,rIed, and 1t was found necessary to EN-
pioy stronger body { f troops in tho re.
newed enterprise. Among the reinforce
Of recruits OF the Goth which