Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-03
ARMY NOTES.
Only 1875 Civil War Veterans in
Regular Army.
Gen. Baldwin Urges Athletic Sport:
for Soldiers.
Plans of the Transports-New Fortifi
cations Named.

washington. July 2.-It is an inter-
estlng fact that the number of Civil
war veterans in the army is now only
l9o. Before the war with Spain there
We're fully 600 or 700 if not more. They
are now distributed as follows, the
tabulation including all West Point
! graduates of the class of 1865. as the
war did not end officially until 1866:
Generals, 1G; adjutants-general .: in
spector-general, 1; judge-advocate-
generals, 3; quartermaster's denart-
ment, -; subsistence department. 6:
medical department, s; pay depart
meht, III; engineers, 23; ordnance, s;
olgnal corps, 2; record and pension |
once, L; chaplains, 4; Cavalry. IS; |
Artillery, So; Infantry, "A; total. 1875. |
exclusive of professors at West Point.
OF whom one is also a veteran of the
Civil War.
Inc youngest of these officers is
Lieut.. Col. John L. Glenn, deputy quar-
'erfnaster general, who does not retire
ailtll 1919 He entered the service AFT
ne age of twelve. Lieut.. Col. e. A IS
iodWln, Ninth Cavalry, also enlisted as
poy' ana does not retire until 1914. t
General Macarthur is the youngest '
eteran among the generals, being s
y-elght. Colonel Babcock of the t
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Departments: In G
Burton and Col. Frank 6
L. fhlpps, Ordnance Department. are t
iA'y years Old, and the Youngest
eterahs in their respective depart- :,
lents. N
Ai'hoash veteran, Judge-Advocate- pl
eneral Davis is now only fifty-six. e.
nile capt. William L. Geary of the f"
lpslstence Department is but fftv- pc
ur. In the Medical Department ssy
a!or Edwin F. Gardner served in the f.
VII War. and still has nine more 81
ars on the active list; while Cantain ne
MN of the Pay Department has oiob+ NJ,
ore years to serve. Chanlain woIl ca
served for four years in the Civil an
OF, anu IS not yet eligible for retire fuI
~ ny SIX years. Capt. E. @.
.nel served three years with the H.,
onsan volunteers, and then entered ha,
%. Iolflt. He resigned his COM Fl.
sSloh IN 1875. and did not re-enter hea
service until 1898. Major w r i i nc
hhlmer Is the youngest veteran In pre-
tArtlllery, as is Major d. II. Brush as
.,ie infantry. Both are ffty-fve. r. r"' y
iio the olHcerS of Civil War ey | ord
fence who have re-entered tho army, for
.e 1898 hold the rank of captain or pa,
Ior' the great bulk of the officers CAV
nave served steadily in the army, Ala.
e the close of the war; now have Ma
rank OF general, colonel, Or lien ana
mt c@lohel"1The list of veterans
DC still further reduced this vea,. MI
me retirement of Col. Edward wod d1
lter' Judge-advocate; Lieut.. Cen vani
,on A. Miles, Major George w Cay;
ls' Col. Charles A. Woodruff Sinh LII LII
nee Department.; Coils. Henry lin Nine
OUT and p. J. A. Cleary.. Medical from
aftment; Col. ]. w. Reilly and Tea
I. Col. John A. Kress. Ordnance Nav
'ftment and Coils. Almond p milk
s. FIRST Cavalry, and Cyrus OF s.
rus Second Infantry. Still other voln,
IT'S Will be voluntarily retired year
Lieut.. Gen. Miles and Major tors
Davis give the opportunity bv MA Ma
retirement mfar