The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-26
INQUIRY INTO WAR AFFAIRS.


TO engineering duties and was i'm charge of
many important duties. In 1885 he became
superintendent of public buildings and
grounds at the capital, serving in that ca
paclty until 1889, when he was made super
ntendent of the military academy, where
he served until 1885, when he was again
made superintendent of public buildings
ana grounds, and served as such until
Feb. 1, 1897, when he was appointed brig
adler general chief of engineers.
Maj. Stephen C. Mills, inspector general,
United States Army, recorder of the COM
mission, was born in New York. appoint
ed 10 the military academy from Illinois,
graduating in 1877; was assigned to the
Twelfth Infantry, becoming a captain in
this regiment in 1894 and in July, 1898, was
appointed major and inspector general
United States Army Maj Mills served in
a number of Indian wars in the West from
1873 to 1882; was military attache to the
Scandinavian countries, and as an aide
de-camp TO Maj. Gen. Ruger, was engaged
in the revision of drill regulations.
= Charles DENLY was born in 1880 at
Mount Ivy Bottetout county, Virginia,
was a student of Georgetown University,
and is an LII. D. of that institution. Grad
uated at the Virginia Military Institute.
Taught school in Alabama two years. Took
up his residence at Evansville, Ind, In 1853
fession lawyer. Was lieutenant and col
onel i'm the Forty-second Regiment, Indi-
ana Volunteers, and afterward colonel of
the Eightieth Regiment, Indiana Nolun-
teers. Was appointed by President Cleve-
land minister to China, May %, 1885, AMI
remained in that capacity at Pekin until
July H. 1898.
Gen. James Adams Beaver was born In
Perry county, Pennsylvania, Oct. q, 1887,
graduated at jefferson College in Western
Pennsylvania in 1856; studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1859 and practiced
law at Belefonte. He belonged to mill
tary company of which Gov. Curtis was
captain, and when the civil war broke
out entered the Union army at the first
call for three months; after expiration of
the term he re-entered the army for the
war as lieutenant colonel of the Forty
fifth Pennsylvania. After brief service
with the Forty-ffth he was offered com
mand of the One Hundred and Forty
eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and joined
the Army of the Potomac just after the
battle of Fredericksburg. AT Chancellors-
vile he was shot through the body, May,
1868; after his recovery he reioined his
regiment; was shot again at Spottsylvania
and at Cold Harbor. At the first assault
on Petersburg he was terribly wounded by
a shell; returned to the brigade, and at
Reanis Station lost his leg This was Aug.
er's military service. He was mustered
out on account of wounds. Gen. Beavers
career since the war is SO we'll known that
it is hardly necessary to recapituate it.
He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania
in 1886 and since the end of his term, jan
uary 1891 has practiced law until the
creation of the new Appellate Court of
Pennsylvania, of which he is now a men,
Der.
Urban A. Woodbury. of Burlington, VT,
was born in New Hampshire July IL, 1888,
and removed to Vermont in 1870 Was edu-
Gated in the common schools. Graduated
In medicine from the University of YER
mont in 1889. Enlisted in Company II,
Second Vermont Volunteers in May, 1861;
was promoted corporal and first sergeant;
lost right arm at Bull Run July q, 1861;
taken prisoner and sent to Richmond Pa
rolled in October 1861. Recruited and drill
ed troops in Vermont until exchanged in
November, 1862 Captain In Eleventh Yer
mont Volunteers from December, 1862, TO
June, 1863. Lieutenant and captain of V.
R. c.. from June, 1868, to close of war.
Mayor of Burlington in 1885. Lieuten-
ant Governor of Vermont, 1888 to 1890.
Governor of Vermont, 1894 to 1895. Colonel
on Gov. Barstow's staff, 1884 to 1886.
Capt Evan p Howell was born in Mil
ton county, Georgia, Dec. 10, 1889. He fin
ished his education at the Georgia Mill
tary Institute, at Marietta, Ga, and the
Lumpkin Law School. He practiced law
for a year and entered the Confederate
army as orderly sergeant of Company Il,
First Georgia Regiment of Volunteers, on
April Z, 1861; was later second and first
lieutenant of the company. The time of
enlistment of the First Georgia having
expired, the company Capt. Howell be
longed to Immediately volunteered and
N,K, Il ~rrsx~r 1forl.f
battery, and was stationed at Fort Meal
lister, near Savannah. While there the
monitors, on their first tour South, at
tackled Fort McAllister, and Capt. How
els battery was part of the garrison.
The fort was almost dsmantled by the
fire from the monitors, but the fort held
out. and did not surrender. He was in all
of the important battles of the western
army around Chattanooga, and in the re-
treat from Dalton, around Atlanta, Jones'
boro and Lovejoy's station. He surrender
ed with Johnston's army at the end of
I the war and returned home,
where he resumed the practice of
law He was made solicitor of mis- judicial
circuit in 1869 and held this office until he
was elected to the state Senate in 1872,
where he remained till 1877, filling three
terms In 1876 he purchased half inter-
est in the Atlanta Constitution, and after
wards sold fourth interest to the late
Henry w. Grady. In 1897 Capt. Howell
sold his fourth interest for 100000.
Capt Howell has been personally con-
nected with all the great enterprises that
have contributed to the upbuilding of At
lanta since the war. He has been a men,
Der of four national Democratic conven-
-tions. commencing in 1876. He was APP
pointed consul to Manchester, England, by
President Cleveland during his first term
and declined the place on account of his
business.
Col. James A. Sexton was born in Chi
cago, and was very young when he en-
listed at the beginning of the civil war,
when he saw active service participating
in many battles. After the war he set
tied in Lowndes county, Alabama, where
he purchased a plantation. In 1867 he sold
out his interest in the South and returned
to Chicago and engaged in the foundry
business The firm of which he is MEM
Der has been eminently successful.
During Col. Sections army service he
was wounded four times, and was men,