Evening star., 1899-01-28
WILL RETIRE NEXT MONDAY
Paymaster General Stanton Will Close His
Active Career
Promotions Through the Entire Line
of the Corps Will ResuIt-Re-
covering From Illness.


held the high Office of paymaster general
of the army since March, 1895, will close
his active military career Monday. He will
become sixty-four years of age on that d
and by operation of law will be arbitrarily
relegated to the retired list of the army
His retirement VIII leave vacancy in Tie
Office of paymaster general and will result
IN promotion through the entire line of
the pay corps. Gen. Stanton is slowly con-
Valescing from an attack of pneumonia
but has been able to spend a short time
each day in his office at the War Depart
ment since last Monday. He is gradually
regaining his strength and expects to be
fully restored to health in short time
Ever since he was stricken down Col. Asa
b. carey mas been in charge of the pay
master generals Office and will undoubtedly
be Gen. Stantons successor. Col Carey
will reach the retiring age in July so that
in the event of his appointment as the head
of the pay department he will have only
brief tenure of office. This action will en-
able the President to appoint Col. George
H. Glenn the senior colonel of the corps
to the office of paymaster general more
than two years before his retirement for
age.
Formerly a Washington Correspond
ent.
Gen. Stanton is one of the most distin-
guished officers in the army. Although the
greater part of his active service has been
in the pay corps, his record shows that he
has also rendered valuable service in the
hghting departments of the line, so much
so that he has become known in the army
as the Fighting Paymaster" He was one
of the volunteer soldiers who graduated
into the regular army during the civil war,
being at the time he entered the military
service a newspaper correspondent in this
city. His first service in the line was with
a m a
very beginning of the war of the rebellion.
At the expiration of his term of enlist
ment, ninety days, he went to Iowa and
was Immediately elected a member or the
state legislature. He did Tot remain be-
hind, however, to enjoy his civil honors, but
promptly raised Company C. Iowa Volun-
teer Infantry, and, going to the front, par
ticipated in many exciting campaigns.
In October, 1862, he was appointed an
additional paymaster and was sent to Mem
phis and Vicksburg, being present at the
quest of Gen. Candy, he was sent to New
Orleans chief paymaster. In January of
the following year he Joined the Army OF
the Potomac, and upon the fall of Rich
mond took position in that city, where
he remained until 1870. most of the time
as chief paymaster of the department, with
brevet rank of lieutenant colonel
Collector Of Virginia Taxes.
While in that city he was put in charge
of the disbursement of reconstruction funds,
and also appointed auditor of public
accounts fer the state of Virginia, having
charge of the collection of all the taxes
and the payment of the expenses of the
state under reconstruction acts.
In 1871 he was a member of the board to
adjust claims of the state of Kansas
against the United States, and later was
ordered to San Francisco, and visited all
the military posts in the territory of Ari-
IONA In November, 1872. he took station
at Cheyenne Nyo., in the department of
the Platte. He took every opportunity for
active operations in the field and in the
succeeding ten or twelve years performed
conspicuously brilliant service. He was
with the column under General John Smith
in 1874 to place the Sioux Indians on their
reservations and to establish Fort Robinson
and Camp Sheridan. The following year
found him with General Crook on the Black
Hills expedition. General Crook made him
chief of scouts in 1876 in his movements
against the Indians, and he took part in
the engagement with Crazy Horse in that
year. In the following year while with
General Merritt, he took part in the move
ments to prevent the Cheyennes from join
ing Sitting Bull. In the same year while
in command of a scouting column, he par
ticipated in the battle of Slim Buttes and
several minor engagements. He was also
with Gen. Crook in the campaign against
Dull Knife's band.
In 1877 he took station at Salt Lake CITY
and afterward was with the troops to pre-
vent a threatened outbreak of the Ban
nocks.
Work in the West
After the Thornberg massacre in 1879 he
was sent to pay the soldiers operating
against the Utes. and in December 1ST9
was made chief paymaster of the depart
ment of the Platte, with station at Omaha.
In 1884 he was in this city as member of
the board to adjust the war claims of Kan
sas, and then went to Salt Lake City. He
was detailed for special duty in the field In
1885 in connection with movement to pre-
vent an outbreak of the Uncompahgre and
White River UteS and to establish Fort Du
Chesne. He was stationed al headquarters
of the division of the Missouri from 1883
TO 1890, when he returned to the depar tment
of the Platte. He paid the troops who ope-
rated at Wounded Knee in 1S90-91 He was
appointed paymaster general, with the rank
of brigadier general March 81, 1895.
1t has been said of Gen. Stanton that he |
was always ready to go where work was to |
be done. and his promotion to the office of |
paymaster general was almost universally |
accepted in military circles erlinently |
ft cna His tim has heeO entire