The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-17
SKETCHES OF AMERICAN OFFICERS
Killed and Wounded in the Attack on
Tien Tsin.
(By the Associated Press.


Washington. July 16.-Emerson II. Lis
cum, Of the Ninth Infantry, who was
killed at Tien Tsin, was one of the most
gallant of the old Civil War veterans
still in the service. At the outbreak of
that war he volunteered as corporal lii
Company H. of the First Vermont In
fantry, having been born in Vermont. He
was mustered out of the volunteers in
August, 1861, and Immediately entered
the regular army as a private in the
Twelfth Infantry. Promotion was rapid
in his case, and he received his first
commission in the regular army as a sec
ond lieutenant in February, 1868
He became Colonel of the Ninth In
fantry on April 25th, 1899. He, was bre-
vetted a captain in 1864 for gallant SER
vices in the battle of Bethesda Church
and in the campaign before Richmond,
Va. Colonel Liscum was in the Santiago
campaign with the Ninth Infantry, and
was badly wounded at the battle of San
Juan Hill The War Department has ta-
ken note of his splendid services there
and his name was to have been present.
ed at the next session of Congress for
promotion to the rank of Brgadier Gen
eral.
captain austin Jaws, u p Ndllilc
Corps, also killed, was a native of Geor-
gia. He entered the marine corps as a
second lieutenant on July LIST, 1894 He
went out to the Philippines in April,
1899, in charge of the marines who took
over the Cavite naval station from the
military branch. His commiss on as cap
tian in the Marine Corps is dated March
3rd.
Con+aip William n n,,,I1y Cf he =
Corps, who is reported as wounded. is
a native of North Carolina, ana n nephew
of Judge Advocate General Lemlv, of the
Navy. He entered the corps on it's in
crease in March, 1899. being attached
to the staff as an assistant Iuartermas-
ter with the rank of captain.
Lieutenant Smedley ID. Butler. of the
Marine Corps, also wounded, was one of
the new officers in the service, having
been appointed from Pennsylvania in
April, 1899. He was sent TO the Philip
pines Immediately upon his appointment,
and was one of the officers drawn fro III
the Cavite station by Admiral kempt
at the beginning of the fighting at TalSu.
Lieutenant Henry Leonard of the Ma
rine Corps was appointed to that service
from the District of Columbia, in April,
1898. tie accompanied Lieutenant BuIlef
to the Philippines soon after his appoint
ment and also joined Kempff's forces at
Taku.
Major James Reagan, Of the Ninth In
fantry, entered the military service from
New York, as a musician III COmpay b,
Second Infantry before the Civil War.
He served throughout thai war and re-
ceived commission as second lieuleEan ut
in the Eighteenth Infantry in Tecember
1866 He was assigned to the Ninth In
fantry as first lieutenant IN 1870 and
has been attached 10 that regiment ever
since, becoming n captain in 1887 and a
major in 1899.
The Captain Bucklniller referred to in
the dispatches as having been wounded
is Captain Edwin V. Bookmiller. He is
a West Pointer. entering the Academy
from Ohio in 1885, His first commission
was that of a secoad lieutenant in the
Second Infantry, in 1889. He became at
tached to the Sixteenth Infantry as a
captain in 1889, and joined the Ninth In
fantry by transfer il the same year.
Captain Charles r. Moves of the Ninth
| Infantry, is adjutant of the regiment He
also was West Pointer. having been
appointed from Massachusetts in 1St,
He got his first commission as second
lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry in 1879
and has been with that organization ever
since, becoming first lieutenant in 1887,
and captain in 1895