The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-09
ION GENERAL ARMY STAFF
CAPTAIN ". ". GIBSON, OF NEW
 HAVEN, HONORED.

Heads the List of Captains Chosen With
 Other Officers to Constitute This Im-
 portsnt Branch of the Army--SeIecGed
 from the Efficiency Records of 79O
 Officers.
 The secretary of war announced yes terday the names selected by the board of officers for the general army staff created by act of congress at it's last session, and at the head of the list of captains chosen is William w. Gibson, of New Haven. Captain Gibson is in the ordnance department. He is son of the late Robert Gibson, for many years connected with L. Candee & Co.,, where he was finally killed by being caught in the machinery. Captain Glb- son is brother of Sarah Lowe Gibson, of Fair Haven; of Mrs. Noble, wife of Dr. Noble, of Montclair, N. J., and for merly of New Haven, and also of Cap tain R. W. Gibson, U. s. A., now sery- ing in the Philippines, who married Miss Banks, of Trumbull street At West Point he was classmate of Gen. eral Sherman's son.
 The extent of the honor done Captain W. W. Gibson is readily understood U,bay, # ;c Lypou,y, +bot fbo saIaofiopS for the general staff were made from the efficiency records of 790 officers. The general staff is similar in some respects to those maintained by France and Germany, and in time of war would map out the general line of campaign and all strategic movements.
 Following is the dispatch announcing the composition of the general staff;
 Washington, April S.-The secretary of war to-day announced the names se- lected by the board of officers for the general army staff. They are as fol- lows:
 Colonels-Thomas H. Barry, adjutant- generals department; John B. Kerr, Twelfth cavalry; John L. Chamberlain, inspector-generars department; Enoch H. Crowder, ge-advocate-ge generals department.
 Lieutenant-colonels - William Simp-
 
 son, A. A. G. department; Henry F. Mccain, A. A. G. department; James T. Kerr, A. A. G. department; Frederick A. Smith, I. G. department; Crosby P. Miller, quartermaster-g generals depart ment; Charles Shaler, ordnance depart ment.
 Majors-John G. D. Knight, Corps of Engineers; George w. GoethaIs, Corps of Engineers; Henry A. Greene, United States infantry, A. A. G. department Edward J. McClernand, United States cavalry, A. A. G. department; James A. Irons, United States infantry, l. c. de- partment; SedgWick Pratt, Artillery corps; William A. Mann, Fourteenth infantry; William P. Duvall, Artillery corps; Montgomery M. Macomb, ,Artil- lery corps; William D. Beach, Tenth cavalry; John s. Mallory, First infan- try; Major Samuel Reber, Signal 1 corps.
 Captains-WiIliam W. Gibson, ord- nance department; David Dub Gallard, Corps of Engineers; Benjamin Alvord, Twentieth infantry; Joseph T. Dick man, Eighth cavalry; Harry c. Hale, Twentieth infantry; Charles H. Muir, Second infantry: Frank Dew. Ramsey, Ninth infantry; Frank Mcintyre, Nine- teenth infantry; Sydney A. Cloman, Twenty-third infantry; Robert E. L. Miche, Twelfth cavalry; Hugh J. Gal lacher, ubdepartment; John J. Persh- ing, Fifteenth cavalry; c. T. Mencher, Artillery corps: William G. Haarf, Ar tillery corps; Charles D. Rhodes, Sixth cavalry; Horace M. Reeve, Seventeenth infantry; Dennis E. Nolan, Thirtieth | infantry.
 First Mathematician Coakes, Corps of Engineers.
 The officers selected will be supple mented by number of general officers. i The present details will not go into ef- | feet until August 15, when the law cre- ating the general staff becomes opera | tive. It is not intended to change the stations or assignments of any officers detailed upon the general staff for the present, nor until they are needed upon general staff work. In the above list some of the officers have not yet reach ed the grade to which they have been assigned, but they will be promoted be- fore the law goes into effect. The board made it's selections from the efficiency records of 790 officers. Only forty-nine officers made application for service on | the general staff.