The age-herald., 1900-04-16
ARTHUR MACARTHUR
 HERO OF TWO WARS

Edward B. Clark in the Chicago Times
 Herald
 Some of the critics who said that Elwell S. Otis was cold, impas ssive, a 'bureaucrat. and did not like the looks of the firing line did not know Otis. These critics were not present at the battle of Spottsylvania, Va where for conspicuous gallantry eagles were placed in the field of the shoulder straps of the man who has just been re- heved from command in the Philippines Neither were the critics present at the subsequent battle at Chapel House, Va, where for further pronouncediy gallant ser vice the eagles of the colonel were dis placed by the star of the brigader To take the place of General Otis and, it may be said confidently, to fill it, is named an- other man. Arthur MacArthur who won promotion and a coveted decoration on the. field of battle. It is simply the case of one gallant officer succeeding another. Mac Arthur looks the soldier that he is As a matter of fact, the word soldier is written all over him, and, as one of his Wisconsin comrades once said, it would '.probabIy be found stamped on the lining of his clothes"
 What General MacArthur has done in the Philippines is too recent to need re- hearsal. He is taking hold of what a poll tician would call a thankless job, but those who know something of MacArthur's military career are certain that, thanks or no thanks, he will do his duty as he secs 1t, to the end General Macarthur is a volunteer soldier. He entered the service in the early days of the Civil war as first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty fourth Wisconsin infantry. which was recruited in the vicinity of Milwaukee The record of the gallant personal achieve ments of Macarthur during the war of the rebellion is longer than that of almost all other officers who survived that strug- gle. - When MacArthur's friends asked Governor Larrabee of Wisconsin to com mission him adjutant of the TWenty- fourth the governor hesitated because he thought "a schoolboy should not be sent to the front The applicant for the adju- tants position was r years old and well built, but he had the face of boy of II. He received his commission, however and it was not long before he showed the stuff of which he was made. At Perryville the dauntless courage displayed by young Macarthur won him praise on the field of battle. Before he was 19 years of age Grant afterward said that were it not for the fact that he couId mt mt xoutJ iaf 19 years oyer the veteran colonels and oth- service, he would have recommended young Macarthur for a brigadier general ship after the battle of Missionary Ridge.
 In the Army Register. the governments official publication, there is short list of men who have won medals of honor by acts of conspicuous personal bravery in action. This official record of MacArthur's s act is brief, but it is one which an army officer prizes more than rank, for it sets down how was won a bit of bronze, in trinsc value 1 cent, but whose price is above rubies. The record stands Ar thur Macarthur medal of honor for cool ness and conspicuous bravery in action in seizing the colors of his regiment at critical moment and planting them on the
 
 Tenn November 25, 1863, while serving as first lieutenant and adjutant Twenty y-fifth Wisconsin infantry
 The Wisconsin boys were the very head and front of the charge up the ridge. There was a terrific fire all the way up. Color-bearer after color-bearer was shot down. The Instructions of the road and the terrific fire had broken the organiza- of fha When the flag went down for the last time the regimental line had nothing to rally upon, but in an instant the boy ad- jutant Macarthur seized the staff of the fallen banner, waved it wildly. for ment as a quickening signal to rally on the center, "and then darted forward to the very crest and into a battery, the lead CT of the whole line and holding the fore most of the sixty battle flags that were moving forward
 Macarthur escaped death at the battle of Kenesaw by means of package of let ters wfAch he carried in his pocket It is one of the few genuine cases of the many that are told of where letters from some one "dearer than a sister" saved the life of him who was carrying them.
 The Twenty-fourth Wisconsin had a part in saving the day at the battle of Frank lip General Stanley said: "A large part of the credit for saving the day is due to the Wisconsin regiment. and in this feat it was lead by its gallant boy colonel Ar thur Macarthur. It was at Franklin that Macarthur was struck down at the head of his men and so badly wounded that il was thought he had seen his last battle. He has taken part in many since, and in none save with honor
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