The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
THE MAN WHO
 WILL LEAD OUR ARMY.
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 It was but short time, however, be- fore fate and Miles achievements re- versed the action of the Massachusetts Governor. Before he had been long ill active service Miles was made a cap- tain, then colonel, later brigadier- general and nnally major general General Hancock, under whom he served in the early years of the wal, quickly discovered his abilities, and was the more interested in the young man because of the fact that Miles had not been graduated from West Poin,. He was in charge of Hancock's s skirmish line at Charlottesville and held his own successfully against every attack by Lees veterans. In this duty he was seriously wounded on the second day. and General Hancock, in a letter to Washington urging his promotion, said, If Colonel Miles lives he will be one Or the most distinguished officers in the service"
 Fifteen years later General Hancock wrote to President Hayes recommend ing that Brevet Major General Miles be promoted to brigadier- general in the regular army. In that letter General Hancock declared that during the Will derneSS campaign Miles took promi- nent part and was distinguished throughout that historic campaign for brilliant services and able and gallant cOHuucl. GeHeTdl idncOck duQeQ that Miles has been highly recommended by him for these qualities in his official re- ports.
 As for General Miles service during the closing months of the civil war, his friends point to the fact that in Feb ruary, 1865, when he was but twenty six years old, he commanded the Sec ond Army Corps, to which distinction he had risen by successive promotions for brilliant and daring work while he had commanded regiments, brigades and division under General Grant. Never before, they declare, had an American officer at that age com- manded so large body of soldiers. They also take pride in the fact that when General Lee surrendered at Ap- pomattox, two months later, Miles was in command of the First Division of the Second Army Corps, the largest of all the divisions in the Army of the Po- tomac.
 But it is as an Indian fighter that the world best knows General Miles. His work on the frontier is familiar to every reader of American history and has been made so much more promi- nent than were his achievements dur ing the civil war that many seem to forget the services he performed during that conflict. Of his six years work among the Indians General Miles says in his book of "reminiscences:
 "A belt of country extending from the Rio Grande, or the Mexican border, on the south to the Canadian boundary on the north and averaging some four hundred miles in width from east to west was redeemed from a wild state and it's control by savage tribes and given to civilizat tion. This vast coun- try, over which in 1874 roamed power full bands of Indian warriors and countless numbers of wild game, was in six years by the operations of the United States army freed for all time from the desolating influence of the savage and made habitable for civilized man. And these results are due to the heroic services, the splendid fortitude and courage and noble sacrifices of men like Lewis. Custer, Thornburgh, Hale, Bennett, Keogh, Yates, Tom Custer, Crittenden. Riddle, Mckinney ;ad hun dreds of others, officers and soldiers, who placed themselves between war and peace, between danger and secur- railways and protecting the towns as they rode on the plains. They freely offered their lives and actually cleared this vast region during that brief time. giving it to civilization forever
 And in this important work, as Gen. eral Miles modestly refrains from even intimating, the present head of the United States army was the one who made the plans, and he was the main directing force in the operations.
 Since his active life on the frontier General Miles has become conspicuous as man of peace. Not only has he written a book, but he long has been in great demand as an after dinner speaker. He is at his ease always, quiet and reserved when the occasion calls for a dignified bearing, demo- cratic and frank when the display of those qualities Is in order