The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-08
MILES LEAVES ARMY
RETIRES TODAY FROM ACTIVE
SERVICE BECAUSE OF AGE.
YOUNG TO SUCCEED HIM.
WILL ASSUME DUTIES CHIEF OF
STAFF AUGUST Is.

Other Changes to he Made Ia Serv-
ice-OhiciaI Orders Making These
Have Been Issued-MiIes Has Is
sued an Address to the Army.
Considers the Time OppOrtune for
Few Thoughts Concerning Its
Past and That Which May Affect
Its Future-Members Opponents of
American Civilization.
Washington, Aug. Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, commanding the army,
will retire from active service at noon
tomorrow, having reached the age linn
it of Ga years.
The following order was prepared to-
day. and will be issued tomorrow:
Washington, Aug. s. 19O3.-The re-
tirement from active service by the
President, Aug. 8, 1903, of Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, United States Army,
by operation of law, under the provis-
ions of the act of Congress approved
June 30, 1882, is announced. Lieut..
Gen. Miles will proceed to his home.
The travel enjoined is necessary for the
public service.
"By order of Secretary of War.
III. C. Corbin. Adjutant General,
Major General United States Army"
Several other orders resulting from
the retirement of Gen. Miles have been
issued, one assigning Lieut.. Gen. Young
to the command of the army until Aug,
Is. when he will assume the duties of
chief of staff: another assigning Mai /.
! Gen. Corbin as president of the Sol
| diers' Home Board, another Brig Gen.
Gillespie as president of the Board of
Ordnance and Fertilization. and still
another assigning Lieut.. Gen. Young
as member of the Sherman Statue
| Commission
Address to Army.
Gen. Miles has issued an address
upon the occasion of his retirement
| from active service in which he says:
THE time and occasion are consid-
cred opportune for expressing to the
army a few thoughts concerning its
past and that which may affect its
future welfare. 1t is from the bes
impressions and influences of the pas
that the most desirable results may
be realized in the future.
| answering devotion to our govern.
ment and the principles upon which il
| was established and has been main
| tanned, is essential to the efficiency OF
the national forces, and especially Is
! this so in a democratic country where
the Individual, in order to be a per-
| feet soldier, must first be a true citi-
zen.
THE boast that every soldier of a
| great nation carried a marshaIs baton
| in his knapsack Is in a higher sense
more than equalled in significance by
the fact that every American soldier
personifes impartial justice to those
who have never experienced it, and
| the results of the highest liberty to
those who have been strangers to it,
| thereby aiding to secure for his coun-
try a moral influence not otherwise at
| tainable.
Under New Obligations.
1.-THE events of recent years have
| placed upon the army a new obliga-
| ton and an opportunity for a broad
| er exemplification of its country
| principles. The United States army
| is now brought into daily communica-
| ton with millions of people to whom
| it's individual members Of every grade
! are the eAponeHtS Oh AMERICAN CIVIL
zation. A serious duty and a great
| honor are now presented to every Of
| ficer and soldier, namely, to exemplify
| to those with whom he comes in con-
| tact our countrys principles of equal
! and exact justice, immunity from vio-
lence. equality before the law and the
peaceful use and possession Of his
| own.
THE lieutenant general has faith
that under all circumstances the army
will maintain it's high character and
| that it's future will be as honorable
and glorious as has been its history
in the past. His earnest solicitude and
| best wishes will ever follow the for