The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-22
GE0RGlANS IN THE ARMY.
MEN FROM THIS STATE WHO ARE
AMONG THE REGULARS.


Facts From the Army Register
Pine Crest Villa. Fla, May H.-The new |
Army List" just issued under date OF |
May Is, shows the present conditioned both |
the regular army and the volunteer forces. |
so far as officers are concerned, and is a |
most valuable publication. being extreme
ly timely for purposes OF reference. Tho |
only major generals are Miles, Merritt and |
Brooke, with Otis, Shafter. Wade Mer-
Ram, Henry and Thomas NJ. Anderson as
The brigadier generals.
Georgia and South Carolina are jointly
interested in Lieut.. Col Ernest A. Gar
lington, son of the late Gen. A. c. CARING
ton, former resident of Atlanta, who
is an inspector general Born in South
Carolina and appointed to the military
academy at West Point from Georgia,
he graduated in June, 1876, with a success
sion of promotions that created quite a
stir among older officers, whom ne passed
in rapid but deserved promotions until he
reached his present important position in
1898
In the Corps of Engineers, Mai Will
lam l.. Marshall married a daughter of
the late Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt Geor-
sia and South Carolina have joint in
terest In Capt. Henry Jervey, a star grad
uate in the engineer corps, as the fam
lily now resides in Atlanta His brother
also a star graduate--James p. Jervey, is
first lieutenant in the same corps. Both
are remarkably proficient In engineering.
Capt. Clement A. f. Flagler, from Iowa,
was born in Georgia and credited to her.
Georgia has quite a number of promising
officers in the cavalry. Capt. G.. S. Hoyle
and Capt. Oscar j. Brown and First Lieu
tenant Edmund s. Wright are in the First
Regiment Capt. John b. Mcdonald and
Second Lieutenant Grayson V. Heidi are
in the Third Regiment. Capt. James
Lockett and Capt. James B. Erwin are
In the Fourth Regiment. First Lieuten-
ants Lawrence J. Fleming and Stephen
II. Elliott (son of the late Bishop r. w
b. Elliott, and Second Lieutenant Eu-
gene z. Jervey, Jr., are in the Fifth Reg
iment. Capt. William w Forsyth is in
the Sixth Regiment. Second Lieutenant
George b. Pritchard Jr, is in the Ninth
Regiment. and Capt Percy e. Trippe and
First Lieutenant Julian r. Lindsey are
in the Tenth Regiment. Before his trans
fer to the inspector generals department
Lieut.. Col e. A. Darlington was one of
the most distinguished young officers in
the famous Seventh Cavalry.
OF late years Georgia has not figured ex-
tensively in the artillery branch Of the
service. Capt. Eli ID. Hoyle, now on de
tached service with the rank of major Is
in the First Regiment. Col Jacob b.
Rawles, so well-known In Savannah, At
lanta and Charleston, Is now in command
of the Third Regiment. Capt Leverett
II. Walker of the Fourth Regiment mar
ria a 81 Of Mrs Of
First Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler, Jr. son
of the hero of Santiago, is almost a Geor-
gian, and is in the same regiment. Savan-
nah's old favorite Is now captain--Charies
b. Satterlee of the new Sixth Regiment.
First Lieutenant Cornelis Dewitt Wilcox,
son of the late Prof Wilcox of the Uni
versity of Georgia. is in the new Seventh
Regiment. The only officers in the army
who can call himself "A Hero" In name,
if not in deed is First Lieutenant Andrew
Hero Jr., of New Orleans. in the Fifth
Artillery; which reminds me that the re-
markable spectacle is seen at the famous
Citadel Military Academy of "A Coward"
as superintendent. And yet there was
not a drawer soldier in the Confederate
service than Col Asbury Coward nor is
there to-day in all the South a more ac-
complished or popular military instructor.
Georgia has always furnished a full
supply Oh OlllttIS 10 Tue biluittiy VI dliNh
of the service, the highest in rank being
the late Maj Gen David e. Twiggs. Her
present representation, however, is not
large, nor very conspicuous, yet IL has
much real merit IN it. Capt. Frank de
l.. Darlington of Milledgeville leads off
in the First Regiment Capt. Frank B.
Mccoy, who was commander of a crack
company in ST. Louis, when appointed a
second lieutenant in the army, is an old
Augusta boy and a promising officer of
the Second Regiment. Capt. James II.
McRae of South Georgia, recently pro-
NOTED, is also a captain in the Third Reg
iment. Capt. Magnus o. Hollis Is In the
Fourth Regiment First Lieutenant
James V. Heidi in the Sixth, and Capt.
Daniel A. Frederick, son of ex-State SEN
ator Frederick, of Marshallvlle and a
very promising officer, lis in the Seventh.
In the Ninth Regiment reappears the once
familiar name of Capt. Robert H. Ander-
son. son of the lamented Gen. Robert H.
Anderson. once in that regiment Capt.
Frederick L. Palmer Is also in the same
command. Capt. Robert ]. C. Irvine of
the Eleventh Regiment Is a son of the
late Rev. DR.. Robert Irvine, the beloved
pastor of the Augusta Presbyterian
Church. First Lieutenant Peter c. Har-
ris is in the Thirteenth Regiment and
First Lieutenant Robert E. Lee Spence
IS III tne OlAteenln. ana FIRST Lieutenant
Edward P. Lawton of Savannah is in the
Nineteenth Regiment. Spence was wound
ed at Santiago and later became lieuten-
ant colonel of the Third Georgia Volun-
teers and went back TO Cuba.
My impression is that Capt Hunter Iig-
get of the Fifth Infantry. married an At
lanta girl. niece of the Miss Kendrlclx who
married an army surgeon some years ago.
Col Henry c. Cook OF that regiment (now
retired), also married In Atlanta, a Miss
Theresa Thorn. Col. Charles w. Williams.
of Kentucky, In the quartermaster's de-
partment, who died in Cuba last summer.
married Gen. John B. Gordon's niece, Miss
Lizzie OVERLY.
Georgia has no representative In the nav
department.. the last one being, l think.
the late Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt, during
the Mexican war. In the ordinance DEPART
ment her last representative was the late
Col. Julian McAllister, OF Savannah. a
very efficient officer. Lieut. Col George
% 3. Dandy, brevet brigadier general.
was her last representative (having been
recently redred), in the quartermaster's
department. He was BON I'm Georgia, but
is ashamed to own II as his parents were