The National tribune., 1901-12-19
NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON o. THURSDAY

fore he was 20, and commanded the regi-
ment before he was q years old. He
succeeded to the regimental command at
the battle of Resaca by the disabling OF
Col. West, and retained it during the rest
Of the operations eliminating in the fall
of Atlanta, his behavior being such as to
elicit complimentary mention i'll general
orders.
When Hood undertook his great raid
into Tennessee in the hope of diyerting
Sherman from the March Through
Georgia" the Fourth Corps was part of
the force assigned TO Gen. Thomas, and
in the Nashville campaign the oath WIS.
and its youthful commander again dis
tinguished themselves.
In May, 1863, Macarthur, then =!
years old, was promoted to the rank OF
Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers ana
brevetted Colonel The regiment was
mustered out soon afterward, and Mae
Arthur passed a few months in civil me;
He had, however, already determined
upon q. military career. This was some
what contrary to the plans-or, at least,
the wishes-of his eminent father, the
Judge, who believed that he could do bet
ter in the legal profession, which, in fact,
had been the program for him before
the war; 1t was something like letting
20 TO get better hold" when, in Feb
ruary, 1865, Col Arthur Macarthur, Of
the 24th Wis, accepted the commission
of Second Lieutenant in the 18th Regu-
lars. Yet, he had, even with such ap-
parent reduction in rank, fair show
with West Pointers of his grade. The
average age of graduation at West Point
is 81 years, and at that age the graduate
receives the commission of Second Lieu
tenant. Arthur Macarthur, eX-COlOnel OF
Volunteers, was in his 22d year in 1866,
when he started as Second Lieutenant IN
the 18th Inf. But he was graduate
of the three-year course in that military
school of which Grant, Sherman, Sherl-
dan and Thomas We're professors, and
whose "drill-grOunds" had been Nicks-
burg, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Dal-
ton, Kenesaw, Resaca, Peach Tree
Creek, Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville.
There are those who would say that if
there was any advantage of start
among the Second Lieutenants of 1866,
it was il favor. of ex-Col. Arthur Mac
Arthur, of the 9th Wis, from every prac-
teal military point of view. At all events,
he is the only Second Lieutenant of that
date who is now q Major
MacArthurs career in the Regular
Army from 1866 to 1898 was uneventful,
except that, in 1889, the capacity he had
developed for the duties of military ad-
ministration, as well as for line service,
caused him to be transferred TO the po-
the rank of Major, and he reached the
rank of Lieutenant-COlOnel in 1896. At
the outbreak Of the Spanish War in May,
1893, he was commissioned Brlgadler-
General of Volunteers, and went with the
first expedition to the Philippines. He
served there in various grades, from
Brigadier-C Commander to Commander
in-Chief, and that part of his
history need not be repeated here. Suf-
TO hat hn
equal TO every station, from command of
a brigade in action to civic administra-
ton over new empire, and that every
addition to his responsibilities result
ed only in new proofs of his brain and
nerve. Personally there is no American
gentleman more modest or less assuming
in any capacity or situation than Arthur
Macarthur.
MAJ.-GEN. LLOYD WHEATON.
Our sixth-and, in rank, junior-Ma-
jor-General is q product of the State that
developed Abraham Lincoln and sent
Grant to the war as a Colonel of V0lun-
teers-Illinois. In April, 1861, Lloyd
Wheaton was mustered in as Orderly
Sergeant of Co. X, Sth H., at the age
of 10. This was one of the first regi-
ments that went to the front. He was
promoted to the rank Of Lieutenant i'll
July, 1861; to that of Captain, in March,
1862; to Major in August, 1863, and to
Colonel OF the regiment in March, 1860.
These rapid promotions were the result
of his conduct from time TO time, at Fort
Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Grand
Gulf, Jackson, Raymond, Champions Hill,
the Big Black, the assault on Vicksburg
with LOgan's Division the 22d Of May,
and the capture of that place with Penn
berton's army the 4th of July, 1868.
After the fall of Vickshurg the Sth III.
was detached from Grants victorious
Army OF the Tennessee. and served for
some time more faithfully than gloriously
in guard duty on the line of the Missis-
sippi River and in the minor operations