The herald., 1898-07-03

as lieutenant colonel of the Twenty
Fourth Infantry. In 1897 he was given
his commission as brigadier-genera
Perhaps of all the President appoint
ments none have been quite so popular
with the public at large as that of Fitz-
hugh Lee.
General Lee comes of fighting fam
ly. His great grandfather was that
celebrated Light Horse Harry" Lee,
who led the Virginian Cavalry during
the Revolution. Robert e. Lee was his
uncle. and his father. Sidney S. Lee,
saw some thirty years OF service in the
United States Navy.
He was born in Fairfax county, Va.
famous as the home of the Washing
TONS Masons and Lees-in 1885. Enter
ing West Point before he was seventeen
years or age, he graduated in 1856
when the Civil war came ne threw
up mis- commission in the army to cast
MS fortunes with those of his state.
ana was at once made Acknowledgement
on the stan of General Ewell.
General Lee was not quite thirty years
OF age when the last flicker of the
Con1ederacy went out in the darkness
OF defeat, and the sensible manner in
winch he accepted the situation and
went through the Reconstruction" ne
ROD made him especially popular in the
North.
In 1885, he was elected governor of
virginia. 1t was during President
Cieveland's administration that he was
appointed consulgeneral at Havana, a
post he filled with such courage and
tact that he was retained by the Nc
kinley administration. When William
j. Sewell, of New Jersey, declined to be
made major general, preferring to re-
tain his seat in the Senate, the appoint
ment went to Matthew c. Butler, of
South Carolina. Butler may be called
bona-fid. civilian: that is, he is not a
West Point man, and his soldering was
limited to the Rebellion. He rose to be
Confederate major general, with a
splendid reputation for gallantry and
ability.
Butler comes Of good American fight
ing stock. Oliver Hazard Perry, who
won the victory over the British fleet
on Lake Erie, in 1918, was his uncle.
Major-General John r. Brooke, who
commands the First Corps and the De-
partment of the Gulf, enlisted in the
volunteer army when the call for men
came in 1861, and was made captain
in the Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry
He was mustered out July 26, 1866, and
two days later entered the permanent
establishment with the rank of lieuten-
ant-colonel.
Two very gallant officers, Major Gen
erals Wade and Wilson, report to Cen
eral Brooke for duty. Wade is one of
the youngest of the newly appointed
men, a cavalry officer of the very finest
type, with a distinguished war record,
which, since the close of the Rebellion
has been added to by his services in the
West against the Indians. He was a
first lieutenant of cavalry in 1861, and
rose to be a brigadier general in the
regular army in 1897.
1t was q part of General Wilson's
command that effected the capture of
Jefferson Davis.
Wilson was born in Illinois, in Sep
TENDER, 1887, and entered West Point
before he had reached his twentieth
year. graduating in 1860. He was as
signed to the engineer corps. and was
present at the bombardment of Fort
Pulaski, and afterwards took part in
the battles Of South Mountain and An
tietam. In November of 1892, he was
appointed lieutenant colonel of vol
unteers, and with his regiment operated
before Richmond.
He was transferred to the Army of
the Potomac In 1864, and had command
of cavalry division during the Shen-
andoah campaign. Subsequently he
was placed In command of a cavalry
corps in the Department of the Missis-
sippi, where he rendered valuable sup
mort to Sherman and Thomas and was
with the former during his famous
march to the sea.
General Coppinger, who commands