The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-27
PERSONAL.

VI. IN september, 1861, and was honor
ably mustered out as a Lieutenant-C Colonel
IN the volunteer Adjutant-Generals De-
partment IN October, 1866 He was bre-
vetted Major of Volunteers for callantry
IN the campaign of 1864. Colonel of Vol
unteers for faithful and meritorious SER
wees ana Captain, L. s. 4, for saIlantry
IN the battle of Salem flights and Cold
Harbor, Va. He also received a medal of
honor for distinguished bravery at Salem
flights while serving as Abide Camp to
Gen. w. t. III. Brooks. He was wounded
at Cold Harbor. and was commended in
orders for bravery at Fair Oaks. In MAY.
1866, he was appointed Second Lieutenant.
LIST I. s. Art, and in July, 1879. was
transferred to the QuartermaSter's Depart
ment with the rank of Captain, reaching
the grade of Colonel i'll October. 1902.
The advancement of Gen. Wheeler led
to the promotion of I.ieut-Col. John L..
Glenn TO be Colonel and Assistant Quarter
master-General. Col Glenn ~ q man with
a history. He was the Drummer Boy of
Shiloh or some other battle during the
civil war. At all events, he attracted the
attention of John y. Logan, who was in
strumental in getting him into the Reg
ular Army as Quartermaster. Glenn has
been very efficient as an officer and il is
surprising that any one should think him
proper officer to approach with 500
Dribe, as has recently been charged that an
Army Contractor in Texas did, to the
great wrath of the honest Colonel, who
promptly reported it.
1t Is the common impression that Gov
Dockery, of Missouri, has no military rec
ord, but Private" John Allen, the famous
story teller of Tupelo, Miss, says he
learned when in st. Louis attending the
dedicatory exercises of the St. Louis
= E'ai- h
vate' Allen says lie met an old farmer on
the grounds who seemed especially well in
formed regarding Missouri history and pol
tics lie had war record to start with,
or he never could have got along in Mis-
souri, suggested the Tupelo statesman
We'll, replied the old farmer he didn't
have much of a war record. Toward the
end of the war he joined a company Of
nome guards with the stipulation that the
company was not to go out of the county
unless the enemy came ill.,"
Probably few of the surviving veterans
of the civil war recall the fact that Mike"
Sheridan, the younger brother of immortal
Phil, who actively though modestIy COOP
Grated in all that great commanders mas
terly achievements, is living quietly in
Washington, a retired Brigadier- General
of the Regular Army. Michael " SherI-
dan, then boy of u, joined his brother
at Louisville in September 1852, when
Sheridan's Division of the Army of the
Cumberland was organized. He was soon
made a Second Lieutenant in q Missouri
regiment composed of German-Americans
from st. Louis, and at once detailed as Aid
to the General. Thenceforward he was at
the Generals side in all his campaigns
and battles, often performing gallant SER
vice in critical emergencies. After the war
he was commissioned in the Regular
Army, and still served with the General
until the death of the latter. He was then
a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Adjutant- Gen.
erals Department. After tours Of duty at
several Western headquarters he went
with Gen. Brooke to Porto Rico as Chief
of Staff with rank of Brigadier-GeneraI Of
Volunteers. Returning to Chicago, Gen.
NJ. V. Sheridan for time commanded the
Department of the Lakes, and when MUS
tered out of the volunteer service, resum-
ed his Regular rank. then Colonel and As
sistant Adjutant-tieneral,a and served again
in Gen. BroOke's staff until his promotion
and retirement in June, 1902. Gen. Sher-
idan is quiet but energetic gentleman,
who as he advances in years develops a
startling resemblance to his distinguished
brother.
Capt. ]. b. Sutton, a civil war veteran,
and member of the Staff Of the Cover
nor of the National Soldiers Home at
Leayenworth, Kan, died at Kansas City,
Mo-, Aug. 20, aged % years He was
buried at his old home in Michigan.
Admiral Dewey, like other men of
prominence, has occasionally to repress the
usually irrepressible. The other day ia
miliar stranger came up to him and cried:
George, III bet you don't know me-"
You win," said the Admiral, and passed
on his way.
Rear-Admiral Melville, who has recently
retired, will not leave his monument to the
dubious taste of the future. He has de-
signed his own tomb, and the result is
there has been erected at Arlington a
simple but magnificent sarcophagus char
acteristic of the man. Each detail of the
work was the Admirafs own idea. He ex-
plains that a couple of years ago some
friends asked him his wishes in the mat
ter, and adds that he Immediately took
the plan in hand, under the privilege ac-
corded every officer of the Army and Navy
who fought to preserve the Union, and
selected the site where the monument now
stands-on Il knoll near the graves of
Sheridan and Crook, overlooking the Poto-
mac and Washington.
The Boston Globe, Democratic paper,
says that Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who is
native of Massachusetts, has been suggest
ed by some OF the pUilIlcElllS OIL Llie party
as possible nominee for Governor OF
that State on the Democratic ticket.
Should he be chosen Governor. it is claim
ed, he would be logical candidate for the
Presidency. The Globe adds that 4liless
friends say he would accept the nominal
ton for Governor.
Gen. S. b. NJ. Young, who succeeded Miles
in command of the Army, and is now Chief
of Staff. is a Pennsylvania, and was liv-
ing in Pittsburg when he enlisted in the
18th Pa. Cav, on April p. 1861, in re-
Spouse 10 President Lincelns first call for
volunteers. Sam Young, IS he was known,
was big broad and heavy, good-natured,
imperturbable, brave to Il fault. ana an OPP
timist, as he always has been. In four
months he had risen TO i Captainey. When
the war ended he was Colonel. Al
ways a cavalryman, he was three times
brevetted for gallantry in action. He was
in almost every fight of the Army of the
Potomac, and at Sailors Greek, the last
brush with Lee. After the civil war Col.
Young was content to enter the Regular
service as a Second Lieutenant of the 18th
u. S. Transferred to the Cavalry, he was
promoted to Captain when the Army was
reorganized For Is years this veteran OF
many battles had to reconcile himself to
the command of company; he was Ma
ior nine years, and it was shortly befors
.&h hot napr ypycu