The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

trusting to find the Americans unprepared
and easy prey they faced. besides the gal
liant commanding officer. five great Ameri-
can soldiers. There were Macarthur. Har-
rison Grey Otis, Anderson, King and
Miller. Every one of them was in the fight
Every one of them was waiting for 1t.
Most remarkable good fortune is it that at
this critical period the American forces
should be commanded by so able a set Of
men.
Gen. Marcus f. Miller came out of West
Point in 1858 and fought at Malvern Hill. in
the Winchester campaign, and at Dinwiddie
Courthouse. He was brevetted for his serv-
ices in these engagements captain, major
and lieutenant colonel. During the war
with Spain he was with the Third Artillery
and in full charge of the defenses of San
Francisco When the Manila situation de-
manded real army men TO be in command
he was selected by Mai. Gen. Wesley Mer-
ritt TO command the First Brigade of the
Philippine eXpeditonary force. On his ar
rival at Mania he was intrusted with the
forces stationed at Iloilo. His forty-one
years service in the army has been almost
a continuous one of service. When not
lighting the Confederates he was defending
the frontier line of the Nation from the at
tacks of Indians. His makeup is that of
fighter.
Brig. Gen. Harrison Grey Otis owes his
elevation to military life to the warm
friendship of President Mckinley His rec
ord in the civil war was forty-nine months
in the field, fifteen engagements, two
wounds in battle and seven promotions. He
fought with the Twelfth Ohio Volunteers
and the Twenty-third Ohio Veteran Volun-
Tr,Eo AaV( if11n trr1QN
him in the field and ever afterward ad-
mired him. He was brevetted a major on
the recommendation of Mai. Gen. Ruther-
ford b. Hayes General Otis was a news
paper man in Louisville when the civil war
came and proprietor and editor of the Los
Angeles Times when the Spanish war
opened. His paper is one of the most in
fiuential in southern California.
Charles King, brigader general, IS the
well-known soldier-author of Wisconsin,
who, at the age of sixteen, volunteered for
the Union cause in the civil war and was
accepted. His first military duty was in
structing a drum corps in the handling of
sticks From the army he went to West
Point, graduated, and then returned to ac-
tive service. During the race riots in New
Orleans i'll 1871 and 1872 he was on duty at
that point, and then saw Indian service in
Arizona. He Commanded Troop X, Fifth
Cavalry, and for gallantry in service at
Diamond Butte in 1874 was recon mended for
8 brevet captaincy by President Grant. In
November, 1874, he was dangerously wound
ed at Sunset Pass. He fought through the
Big Horn and Yellowstone campaigns of 1878,
but in 1879 the opening of his Indian wound
forced him to retire from the service. He
then joined the National Guard of Wiscon-
sin in which he has since been a colonel.
Thomas II. Anderson, until he became
brigadier general, was the senior colonel Of
the regular army. He was not only ranking
colonel of infantry, but also of artillery and
the engineer corps. For twelve years, or un-
til his dispatch 20 the Philippines, he was the
commanding officer al Vancouver barracks.
Washington. The Fourteenth Infantry,
United States army. was stationed there.
Like Otis, General Anderson is Ohio born.
He was a lawyer before the civil war; but
left the bar to enlist as a private soldier in
the regular army. He served throughout
the war, fought in eighteen battles and was
wounded four times After the war he was
given service in Texas and Wyoming against
the Indians. Later he was transferred to
Vancouver barracks. He is prominent in
the Loyal Legion and past commander of the
Oregon branch. He organized the Oregon
Society of the Sons of the American Revo-
luton, and was elected its first president,
a position he still holds. He is a Mason cf
high rank.
Arthur Macarthur was the last of the
brigadier generals Of volunteers ordered to
Manila when General Merritt was organiz-
ing the American forces there. During the
Spanish war he was at Tampa and Chicka-
mauga, where he assisted in the mobiliza-
ton of the army. Until just before his de-
parture he was a lieutenant colonel in the
adjutant generals department. He served
in the civil war as first lieutenant and ad-
jutant of Wisconsin volunteers AT the end
of the war he was a brevet coloLel Of volun-
teers. He became first lieutenant of the
Seventeenth Infantry, United States army,
and then captain of the Thirty-sixth and of
the Thirteenth Infantry. He was appointed
major and assigned to The adjutant generals
department in 1882 His knowledge of tactics
is extensive, and he had been looked up to
as an authority on field movements. To this
ability he adds the other of having proved
courage.
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