The Indianapolis journal., 1898-09-26

1SilHSSScC anu AllSSlSSlppl campaign VI Il GU
ruary-June, 1862. and of the First Army
Corps in the advance into Kentucky which
resulted in the battle of Perryville. He was
in command of the right wing of the Four
teenth Army Corps in the Tennessee cam
paign of 1923 including the battle of Stone
River. and Of the Twentieth Army Corps
at the battle of Chickamauga. He was en-
gagged in the defense of the capital at the
time of Early's raid and in 1863 sent
with the joint commission of Congress to
investigate Indian affairs in the West. At
| the close of the war he was appointed lieu
tenant colonel of the Twenty-sixth Infantry
and served for many years on the staff of
| Gen. w. L. Sherman. He became colonel
| of the Sixth Infantry in 1880. commanded the
infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, was appointed Drigadier gen.
| eral in 1890, promoted to major general in
| 1894 and retired on April %, 1897 He was
| selected by President Cleveland as the Off
| cial representative of the United States at
the coronation of the Car in 1886.
Brig. Gen. John NJ Wilson. chief of en-
the District of Columbia, appointed from
| Washington Territory to the Military
| Academy, graduating in 1860, and after serv-
| ing short time in ordnance and artillery
was assigned to the engineer corps. He
served throughout the civil war, first as an
| engineer and afterwards as an inspector gen.
| eral, and was engaged in many of the bat
| ties of the war. At the close of the war
| he returned to engineering and was in
| charge of many important duties In 1885
he became superintendent of public buildings
| and grounds at the capital. serving in this
| capacity until 1889, when he was made super
intendent of the Military Academy. where
| he served until 1893, when he was again
| made superintendent of public buildings and
| grounds. and served as such until the 1st
of February. 1897. when he was appointed
brigadier general, chief of engineers.
Maj. Stephen c. Mills. inspector general
of the United States army, recorder of the
| commission, was born in New York. He was
appointed to the Military Academy from IL
| libois, graduating in 1877, and was assigned
| to the Twelfth Infantry, becoming cap
| tain in this regiment in 1894, and in July.
| 1898, was appointed major and inspector gen.
eral of the United States army. Major
| Mills served in a number of Indian wars in
| the West from 1878 to 1882, was military at
tache to the Scandinavian countries, and.
as an aid-de-camp of Major General Ru-
| ger, was engaged in the revision of drill
| regulations.
Charles DENLY was born in 1880 at Mount
Ivy, Botetour county, Virginia He was a
student at Georgetown University, and is
| an LII. d. of that institution. After grad
uating at the Virginia Military Institute he
| taught school in Alabama two years. He
took up his residence at Evansville. Ind. in
| 1853 which is now his home. BY profession
he is lawyer. He was colonel in the For
| ty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteers,
| and afterward colonel of the Eightieth
Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. Mr.. DENLY
was appointed by President Cleveland min
lister to China May 20, 1885, and remained
in that capacity at Pekng until July II. 1898.
Gen. James Adams Beaver was born in
Perry county, Pennsylvania, Oct. Il, 1887.
He graduated at Jefferson College, in west
| ern Pennsylvania, in 1856, studied law and
| was admitted to the bar in 1859, and prac-
| ticed law at Bellefonte. He belonged to
| military company, of which Governor Curtis
was captain, and when the civil war broke
| out he entered the Union army at the first
! call for three months and after expiration
| of the term re-entered the army for the
| war as lieutenant colonel of the Forty-fifth
| Pennsylvania. After a brief service with
| the Forty-fifth he was offered command of
the ne-hundred-and-forty-e Pennsyl-
vania Infantry and joined the Army of the
Potomac just after the battle of Freder-
| icksburg. At Charlottesville he was shot
| through the body in May, 1868. After his
recovery he rejoined his regiment, but was
shot again at Spotsylvania and at Cold
Harbor. At the first assault on Petersburg
| he was terribly wounded by a shell, but
later returned TO the brigade, and at Rea-
| ria his This fh0
| 25th of August, 1864, and of course, it ended
| General Beavers military service He was
| mustered out on account of wounds. Cen
| eral Beavers career since the war Is so
| we'll known that it is hardly necessary to
recapitulate it. He was elected Governor
| of Pennsylvania in 1886, and since the end
Of his term, January. 1891, has practiced
law until the creation of the new Appel
late Court of Pennsylvania, of which he is
| now a member.
Urban A. Woodbury., of Burlington, VT,
was born in New Hampshire, July IL, 1888,
and moved to Vermont, 1S40 He was edu-
Gated in the common schools and graduated
in medicine from the University of Yer
mont in 1859. He enlisted in Company III,
Second Vermont Volunteers, in May, 1861;
was promoted corporal and first sergeant;
lost his right arm at Bull Run July 21, 1851;
was later taken prisoner and sent to Rich
mond and paroled in October, 1861 He
cruited and drilled troops in Vermont until
exchanged in November 1862. He cap
tain in the Eleventh Vermont Volunteers
from December, 1862, to June 1868, and lieu
tenant and captain from June, 1863, to the
close of the war. Mr.. Woodbury. mayor
Of Burlington in 1SS5-1SS6 lieutenant govern
or of Vermont, 1888 to 1890; Governor of Ver-
mont, 1894 to 1885, and colonel on Governor
Barstow's staff 1884 to 1856.
Captain Evan p. Howell was born in Mill
ton county, Georgia, near Atlanta, on the
10th day of December 1899. He finished his
education at the Georgia Military Institute,
at Marietta, Ga, and the Lumpkin Law
School, at Arthur, Ga. He practiced law for
a year and entered the Confederate army
as orderly sergeant of Company E, First
Georgia Regiment of Volunteers on the 7th
day of April, 1861, twelve months troops
He was promoted in May, 1861, TO second
lieutenant in his company and soon after
to first lieutenant. The time of enlistment
of the First Georgia having expired, the
company Captain Howell belonged TO imme-
dately volunteered and elected him captain.
He was given a light battery and was sta
toned at Fort McAllster, near Savannah
While there the monitors in their tour of
the South attacked Fort McAllister and
Captain Howells battery was part of the
garrison. The fort was almost dsmantled by