The San Francisco call., 1898-04-06
General Shafter Assigns Him to Duty at the
 PresidiO.
Trip Around the Bay With the Adjutaut General and
 Artillery Inspector.
GALLANT SERVICE RECORD
Paragraphs Added 10 the Army Regulations Relating to the
 Presidents Flag.

Lieutenant Colonel Wallace F. Ran dolph, Third Artillery, U. $. A., arrived Monday evening, and reported at depart ment headquarters yesterday. He came from Fort Riley, Kansas, at which post he has commanded the artillery battalion for the past three years. 1esterday Lieutenant Colonel John B. Babcock, A. A (. adiutant general of the department, communicated by wire with General Shafter. who is in Southern California, and a message was received from the general assigning Colonel Randolph to duty with his regiment at the Presidio.
 Later in the day Colonel Randolph ac- companied by Colonel Babcock, Major Edward Field, artillery inspector Of the department. and Major Stephen w. Groes- heck. Judge Advocate, went aboard the Government steamer General McDoweli and took a general survey of the harDor Notifications.
 Colonel Randolph was born in Pennsyi- vania on June II. 1S41, and entered the vol un+eer service as a private in Company F, seventeeth Pennsylvania Infantry, April 1S 1861. He was discharged from the reSl- ment June 2S. 1861. On May 1, lS6l, In con formity with the proclamation or lhe President, a new regiment of tWelVe pat teries was added to the artillery arm or the service, and became known as the Fifth. Congress confirmed this act or the President July F, 1861, but all appoint ments dated from May IA, on Whch date Colonel Randolph was appointed second lieutenant in the newly organized regl- ,ran+ He was promoted first lieutenant of the Fifth March l, 1862; captain or the I7ifth Tllly 2S. 1S66 and on April 70, lSeS, was promoted major of the Third Artillery.
 Colonel Randolph earned the preVet ol
 poll Ia m itoriOus services ill the defense or W m chester Va. and he was breVeted IndJor March lS, 1865. for good conduct ana gal lant services during the war.
 His battery participated III the oeIeHse of Winchester Va and occupied without adeouate support an isolated, unprolecl- ed outwork dominated by mountain to the west, within range Here the battery remained till late in the afternoon, when the enemy opened upon it with plunglnS ire from sixteen guns. Many or the men and most of the horses were Killed or wounded, and caisSonS and limbers blown up. The battery was so disabled inside of ten minutes that it became impossible to remove the guns. Suddenly the enemy charged with five regiments, which had been massed behind a neighboring ridge, in front. Nothing inside the works could stop this onslaught, but his men stood by their guns till the enemy had planted it's colors on the parapet. Not till then did Randolph order his men to fall back. Lieutenant Randolph was carried, wounded, into the town and fell into the hands of the Confederates. For this brave defense he was breveted a captain.
 Colonel Randolph has served continu- ously with his regiment since the war at posts along the Atlantic coast, all the way from Florida to Maine.
 By direction of the Secretary of War the following transfers have been made to the Sixth Artillery:
 First Lieutenant Harry L. Hawthorne, First Artillery; First Lieutenant Gustaye w. $. Eirst ri irSt Lieutenant Lon Ostheim, Second Artillery; First Lieutenant Arthur F. Curtis. Second Artillery First Lieu tenant Edward A. Mllar, Third Artillery; First Lieutenant John K. Cree, Third Artillery; First Lieutenant Charles T. Menoher Third Artil- Artillery; First Lieutenant Samuel D. Sturgis Fourth Artillery First Lieutenant Thomas ant Edgar Russell, Fifth Artillery.
 To the Seventh Artillery the following transfers have been ordered by the Sec retary of War:
 First Lieutenant John w. Ruclnan, First Artillery; First Lieutenant Elisha s. Benton First Artillery: First Lieutenant T. Bentley Mott. First Artillery; First Lieutenant Henry D. Todd Jr.. First Artillery; First Lieutenant Isaac N Lewis, Second Artillery; First Lieu. iery: First Lieutenant Henry C. Davis, Thirt Artillery; First Lieutenant John D. Barrette Third Artillery; First Lieutenant Elmer w Hubbard; Third Artillery; First Lieutenant Lieutenant Willoughby Wake. Fifth Artillery
 By direction of the Secretary of Wal paragraphs descriptive of the flag of the President have been added to the army regulations. The Presidents flag shal be of scarlet bunting, measuring 13 fee fly and s feet hoist In each of the foul corners shall be 8 five-pointed white stal with one point upward. In the center oi the flag shall be a large fifth star, also of five points, which lie in the circumfer ence of an imaginary circle of feet inches radius. Inside of the star thu: outlined is a parallel star, separated from 1t by band of white two inches wide This inner star forms a blue field upor which is the official coat of arms of tn. United States as determined by the State Department, the device being located by placing the middle point of the line diVid ing the chief from the paleways of tht escutcheon upon ;he point of intersec tion of the diagonals of the flag and thu. colnciding with the corner of the large center star. On this scarlet field around the large star are other white stars, ont for each State, equally scattered in the re-entering angles, and all included with in the circumference of a circle 3 feet inches radius, whose center is the center of the large star
 The colors of the President shall be O scarlet silk, 6 feet inches fly and fee on the pike, which shall be ten feet long including ferrule and head. The heao shall consist of a globe, three inches 1, diameter, suTmounted by an American eagle, alert, four inches high. In eacl of the four corners shall be a five-pointe, and stars are to be embroidered in silk the same on both sides of the color Tn edges of the color are to be trimme, with knottcd fringe of silver and golt three inches wide, and one cord (hayin, two tassels) 8 feet inches long and mad of red, white and blue silk fntermixed.
 The order adding these paragraphs i signed by Major-General Nelson A Miles