The evening times., 1900-01-18

The Senate Committee on Pensions has
reported favorably large number of bi Is
granting pensions TO widows of Union Off
} GERS and soldiers. One Of these is a bill
granting a pension to Julia NJ Johnson,
of Great Falls. Mont, widow of Richard
W. johnson. late breyet major general,
United States army
General johnson entered the United
; States Military Academy July l. 1874;
graduated July /, 1919, and subsequently
received the following appointments and
promotions: Brevetted second lieutenant
Sixth Infantry, July /, 1S49 second lieu
tenant. June 10, 1850; first lieutenant
Second Cavalry, March 3. 1855; captain
December l. 1856; major, Fourth Cavalry
July IL 1862; retired with the rank of
major general October II. 1867. and with
rank of brigadler general March 3, 1875.
For gallant and meritorious services in
battle and in the field he was brevetted
as follows: Lieutenant colonel. Septem-
ber 20. 1863; colonel. November "a, 1863;
brigadier general and major general,
March 49, 1865.
He was acting judge advocate of the
military division of the Tennessee to Au-
gust Is, 1866; of the Department of the
| Tennessee to March Is. 1867, and of the
| Department of the Cumberland until he
was retired from active service. October
II, 1867, with the rank of major general,
for disability from wounds received in bat
tie. which rank was changed to brigadier
general by act of March 3. 1875. General
| Johnson died from pneumonia, April Il,
| 1897.
General Wright's Record.
A bin granting a pension to Louisa NJ.
! Wright, widow OF Gen. Horatio G. Wright
who died at his home in this city, Ju,y
2. 1899. has been favorably reported.
Horatio G. Wright, late brigader gen.
eral and Chief of Engineers, United States
| army, was born in Clinton, Conn, March
| 6. 1920. and entered the Military Academy
| at West Point at the age of seventeen.
! He graduated at the age Of twenty-one,
and was assigned to the engineers. Seven
| years later he promoted to the rank
OF first lieutenant. and In July, 1885. be-
! came a captain. On May a. 1861 he was
rendered the grade OF maj jor in the Thir-
teenth Regiment of Infantry, which be
declined. and in August Of the same year
he attained that rank in his own corps
the engineers.
became lieutenant colonel IN the regular |
army, and March 1. 1854 colonel of en-
gineers On June 80 Of the same year he |
was elevated by the President 10 the high |
est grade in his corps, that of brigadier |
general and Chief of Engineers, fourteen |
years later than he would have received |
that appointment had President Abraham |
Lincoln lived to fulfill his promise made |
to appoint him Chief of Engineers in 1865, |
in npyrgiFi - "a E9fsF, hal
vices, particularly in breaking the lines at
Petersburg, April of that year. Presi-
dent Lincoln did not live TO carry out his |
plan, and Gen. A. A. Humphreys was pro-
NOTED at that time.
The beginning OF the civil war found
General Wright major of engineers He
was chief engineers of the expedition for
the destruction of the Norfolk navy yard.
and participated in the first battle of Bull
Run. As brigadier general OF volunteers
he commanded the Port Royal expedition |
which operated in South Carolina and |
Florida, in 1862. and the same year was
promoted majcr general of volunteers and
assigned to the command of the Depart
ment of Ohio. On March 8. 1884. General
Wright was retired from active service.
Chief Engineer Randall.
The committee recommends the passage
Of a bill granting a pension to Mary A.
Randall, of Portsmouth. n H., mother OF
the late Chief Engineer Frank B. Randall
of the United States revenue cutter Nc
Culloch.
He entered the United States Revenue
Service June Il. 1874 at the age of twenty
four years. He was promoted TO first as
sistant engineer May l. 1883; and TO chic,
engineer June 8, 1885. He was married in
July, 1874. He left daughter who was |
born in November, 1855. Some time be-
fore the death of his father Chief Engineer |
Randall contributed TO the support of his |
mother, and on the death OF the father the |
mother was wholly dependent upon her
son for support, who regularly sent her
-ach month s55 1888 for herself and $40 | !
ior his child, as is shown by the records |
on file at the Treasury Department Chief :
Engineer Randall lost his life at the bat ,
tie of Manila, at which time he was forty
eight years of age He died at his post of :
duty in the engine-room of the vessel of
which he was chief engineer After his 4
death the mother applied for a pension 2
but was denied because the child had ap-
piled and received pension of $27 per | |
month, which was paid up TO November |
1899, at which time she became sixteen | C
years of age and the pension was discon- S
inued. !;
The committee concludes its report on 1
his as follows: AT this time neither |
mother nor child is receiving any pension | L
md in view of the fact that the late Chief S
Engineer Randall spent about half his life II
n the United States Revenue Service ard | b
he mother at the age of seventy-one Il
1ears, with an invalid daughter has no n
property or income of any kind being de- e,
'endent upon help from others, your COM m
nittee report the bill back favorably with
recommendation that it pass
other Bills.
Another bill favorably reported is grant
ng an increase of pension from IS to $50
month to Mary A. Dennis, widow of bre-
ct Major General Elias S. Dennis
Elias s. Dennis was mustered into SER
ice August IS, 1861, as lieutenant colonel IL
'hirtieth Illinois Infantry Volunteers To | la
erve three years He is regarded by this di
department. as having been mustered into | in
ervice in the grade of colonel, same regi- c.
lent, to date from April 22,l 1862 He is a.
eported present with the regiment to April / &c
3, 1868, when he was mustered into SER re
ice as colonel to enable him to accept a NJ
0mmission as brigader general volunteers. pC
lie was commissioned brigadier general of | ty
olunteers March 16, 1853, to rank from ! -;
ovember 29, 1862: accepted the commits
ion April 13. 1868, and from April 13 to b,
lay 15, 1863, was in command of the Sec h,
nd Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth r,
rmy Corps. On May 10, 1868, he was as
gned to the Second Brigade, Seventh Di-
SiOn Seventeenth ARMY CorDS and on | =