St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-07
LEGION DIED AT BALTIMORE
YESTERDAY.
HE PRECEDED GEN. MASON
IN COMMAND OF THE DEPART
MENT OF DAKOTA AT FORT
SMELLING.
DEATH BREAKS UP THE PLANS
For the Lincoln's Birthday CeIe-
bratiOn of the Minnesota Conn
panies of Loyal Legion.


ln-chief of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, veteran of two wars,
and for time in charge of the depart
ment of Dakota, with headquarters at
Fort Smelling, died yesterday at Balti-
more.
Inc announcement, which was made
In private telegram to Judge Charles
b. Flandrau, from the son of the dead
general in very brief telegram, will
carry a message that will be sad news
in many household of this city, which
knew the general as a friend. My
father died at $50 this afternoon"
That was all. No particulars as to the
illness. We're given, but it must have
been sudden, as it was the first intima-
ton received in this city that Gen.
and Mrs. Gibbon would not be present
in this city on Wednesday evening
next, when the Minnesota Command
airy had planned an elaborate reception
IN their honor, and in celebration of
Llncoln's birthday, to be given at the
Ryan hotel
Gen. Gibbon was born near Homesburg, Pa,
April 26. 1927. He was graduated at the
united States military academy at West Point
IN lS4I, and assigned to the artillery ipme-
dlately He served at Mexico and Toluca I'M
then until the opening of the Civil war he
was largely on frontier and garrison duty. but
was assistant inspector of artillery at West
Point from 1854 to 1857. He was quartermas-
ter there, 1S56-1S59. Nov 2, 1859 he became
captain in the Fourth artillery and he was
chief OF artillery OF Gen. McDowelis division
from oct. Is, 1861, till May 2, 1862, at which
date ne was made brigade general of volun-
teers. He commanded a brigade through the
Northern Virginia, Maryland, RappahannoclS
ana pennsylvania campaigns in 1862 and 1852
he bro
regular army, Sept. q 1862 for brilliant SER
wee on the field at Antietam; lieutenant col
onel, Dec ID, of the same year, for similar
honors at Fredericksburg where he command
ed division and was wounded and disabled
for three months; and colonel July T. 1868
meritorious service at Gettysburg where he
was severely wounded while in command OF
the Third army corps. He was disabled by
this wound until Nov. Is, when he commanded
the draft depot at Philadelphia, till March 81
1864.
He was then assigned to a division in the
Second corps, becoming major general of
volunteers on June Z. 1864. and being engaged
Harbor After Jan. 10. 1865 he commanded
the T'wenty-fourth army corps, and was be-
fore Petersburg from June Is. 1864. to April
2, 1855, taking part in the assaults of the last
two days. and carrying two redoubts. He was
breveted brigadier general and major general
in the United States army, to date from
March H. 1865; was one of the commissioners
to carry into effect the stipulations for the
surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee and was
mustered out of the volunteer service Jan
10. 1866. Since the he has commanded
various posts as colonel of the Thirty-sixth
infantry. 1869. and of the Seventh infantry
lS69-lSS6. He was superintendent of the gen
eral recruiting service in New York city in
1873, had charge of the Yellowstone expedi-
ton against Sitting Bull in 1875, and on
Aug: 3. 1877. commanded in the action with
the Nez Perces at Big Hole Pass Mont where
he was wounded. He temporarily command
ed the department of Dakota in 1878. and after
July %. 1885, that of the Columbia having
In e Nv
dent of the suppression of the riots against
the Chinese in Washington territory. July
10, 1885, he was promoted to be brigadier
general.
Maj. George O. White, who was we'll ac
quainted with the late general, was informed
of Gen. Gibbons death at early hour this
morning. He expressed great surprise at the
generals sudden death, as the only intimation
he had received that he was i'll was in a
letter from Capt. A. Ross Houston. recorder
of Wisconsin commandery of the Loyal Lee
gion. Capt. Houston was in hope, however,
that the general would be able to leave Bal
timore in time to be in st. Paul as planned,
and the Wisconsin commandery nlan-
ming to receive him en- route home after his
visit here. Said Gen. White:
Gen. Gibbons death will leave a sad
cancy at our celebration of Abraham Lin
coins birthday He and his wife were to
have been the guests of honor at the COM
mandery supper that evening. and among the
other guests were to be Senator Charles F.
Henderson of Nebraska; Col. Gilbert A.
Gently of Gen Gibbon: He is in no sense a
paper soldier; he is a of iron. l run no
risk in saying that there not a general
officer during those four years of war who
heard more bullets whistle and whose life
endangered a greater number of times
than this modest hero who sprang from the
common people Gen. Grant said of him:
i know that whatever John Gibbon is direct
ed to do will be done and well done
Gen Gibbon was elected commander-ln-
chief of the order of the Loyal Legion in
October last at Washington, over Gen. Nelson
A. Miles. 1t was only on Saturday last that
received notice that he would reach here
on the 18th. Gen. Gibbon has not been In
the service for several years, having been
retired April 90 1891. After leaving st. Paul
resided for some time on the Pacific slope"
Gen. Gibbon known as a writer on
military topics. having published the Artil-
lerists' Manual, and contributed articles to
current literature, including one on 'Our In
dian Question" in the journal of the Mill
tary service institution, for which a prize
medal was awarded him.
Mrs. Cibbon is a sister of Col. Edward
Moule, of the Third infantry, who is sta
toned at Fort Smelling, but is now in Mil
| waukee, where he went expecting to meet
his sister and her husband on their way to
st. Paul.
Since the above written the following
Associated Press telegram has been received:
baltimore Md. Feb. 6-CIen. IOhn Cihhon