Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-08
ARMY PROMOTIONS
Nominations Sent by the
President to the Senate.
MANY RETIREM EN- rs
GEN. ADNA r. CHAFFEE MADE a
LIEUTENANT GENERAL.
Col. Dodge to Be Paymaster General,
Col. Mackenzie Chief of Engineers
and Col. Story Chief Of Artillery.

the following important military nomina-
tons:
General Ofncers-Major Gen. Adna r.
Ckaffee, to be lieutenant general, u .
army. vica Young to be retired from active
service.
To be najCr generals.
Brig Gen. william A. Kobbe. I. s.
army. vice Chaffee, to be appointed lieuten-
ant genei al.
Brig Gen. Joseph p. Sanger. q. s. army.
vice Kobhe, to be retired from active SER
vice.
Brig. Gen. Alfred E. Bates, paymaster
general, vice Sanger. to be retired from
active service.
Brig. Gen Wallnce F. Randolph, chief OF
artillery vice Bates, to be retired from ac-
tive service.
Brig Gen. George l.. Gillespie. chief OF
engineers vice Randolph. to be retired from
active service
To be brigadier generals-Col. Alfred Nor.
decai. ordnance department, vice kobbe, to
be appointed major general, United States
army; Col. Harry L. Haskell, Sd Infantry,
vice Sanger, to be appointed major general
United States army: Col. Forrest H. Hatn-
away. assistant quartermaster general, vice
Mordecai to be retired from active service;
Col. Asher c. Taylor. artillery corps, vice
Haskell, to be retired from active service:
Col. John G. Butler. ordnance department,
vice Hathaway, to be retired from actlVe
service; Lieut.. Col. Charles j. Allen, corps
of engineers. vice Taylor. to be retired from
active service; Lieut.. Col. Theodore E. True,
deputy quartermaster general. vice Butter
to be retired from active service; Col
Frank M. Coke, assistant paymaster gen.
eral vice Allen, to be retired from active
service: Col. Jacob Kline. 21st Infantry.
vice True, to be retired from active service:
Col. William E. Dougherty, 9Th Infantry.
vice Coke to be retired from active service;
Col. William s. McCaskey. Goth Infantry.
vice Kline, to be retired from active serv-
ice: Col. Albert L Mills, superintendent
Military Academy. vice Dougherty. to be
retired from active service.
Staff corps-Col. Francis s. Dodge, assist
ant paymaster general (prometed from lieu
tenant colonel and deputy paymaster gem
eral, vice Coke. appointed brigadier gen
eraD, to be paymaster general, with the
rank of brigadier general. for the period of
four years, vice Bates to be appointed ma
jor general. United States army.
Col. Alexander Mackenzie. Corps of En-
gineers. to be chief of engineers with the
rank of brigadier general, vice Gillespie, to
be appointed major general. United States
army. . -.
Chief of artillery-Col John P. Story, Ar
tillery Corps, to be chief of artillery, with
the rank of brigadier general. vice Ran.
Golph. TO be appointed major general,
United States army.
All Of the above nominations are conse-
quent upon the statutory retirement to-
morrow of Lieut.. Gen Young. chief OF
staff, and his succession by Maj Gen. Chat
fee in the highest Office in the army.
Gen. Gillespie's Record.
General Gillespie, the new member of The
general staff, has had a distinguished mill
tary record. Born in Tennessee, ! ; gradu-
ated No. in the class of 1862 at the mill
tary AcaGemy and was appointed second
lieutenant in IA corps of engineers: lie
served actively in the field in the Army of
the Potomac during the war of the rebel
lion and particpted in many important pat
ties and engagements, including the battles
of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellors-
vile, Cold Harbor and in the Richmond
campaign resulting in the surrender or Cen
eral Lee at AppomattoX Court House. lie
was breveted ma jor- for gallant and merI-
torious services during the Richmond cam
paign and lieutenant colonel for gallant and
meritorious services in the campaign from
Winchester to Appomattox. Since the civil
war he has had charge of many important
public improvements. including the river and
harbor works in the vicinity of Boston and
New York. During the Spanish war he
served as brigader general of volunteers.
In May, 1901. he was appointed chief OF
engineers. with the rank of brigadier gen.
eral, and has filled that most Important
and responsible office to the highest salts
faction of his superiors.
Col. Mackenzie's Service.
Colonel Alexander Mackenzie. the next
chief of engineers, was born in Wisconsin
and appointed to the army from Illinois.
He was graduated from the Military Acad-
envy in June 1864 and in March, 1865, was
breveted captain for gallant and mer.torous
services during the civil war. He Is re-
garded as one of the ableSt and most popu-
lar officers in the corps of engineers, and
has performed important services in that
department in Maryland. Mississippi; Ken,
lucky Michigan. Illinois. New York and
the District of Columbia For several years
past he has been stationed at the War De-
partment in arge of the appropriations
for rivers and harbors and was the principal
assistant to the chief of engineers. up to the
time of his assignment to the general staff
on its organization in August last.
Lieut.. Col Aliens Work Here.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles ]. A. Allen,
who is to be appointed brigadier general
and retired is well and favorably known to
the citizens of the District through the i'm
portant services he has performed for its
substantial improvement. He is a native of
New York and was graduated at the Mill
tary Academy in 1864. He is also veteran
of the civil war and was breveted captain
for highly meritorious services in the Sieges
Of Forts Gaines and Morgan. Ala, and
major for gallant and meritorious services
in the campaign against Mobile. After serv-
ing In various parts of the country in an en-
gineeering capacity he was, in January,
1896. placed in charge of the river and har-
Dor works In Washington and vicinity and
has served faithfully in that capacity ever
since. To him due much of the credit for
the improved navigation of the Potomac
river at and below Washington, for the re-
clamation of the Potomac flats and the es-
Establishment of Potomac Park; the improve
ment of the Anacostia river and the pro-
| jected construction of the highway bridge
and the railroad bridge across the Potomac
to take the place of the dilapidated struc-
ture known the Long bridge. He has
also taken deep interest in the project for
memorial bridge and was chairman of the
board which selected the monumental de-
sign for that structure now under consider
alton by Congress.
Gen. Joseph p. Sanger.
| Gen. Joseph p. Sanger was born in Micht-
| gan and during the war of the rebellion
served second lieutenant of the 1st Michi-
| gan Infantry. and afterward first lieu
tenant in the 1st Regular Artillery. He was
| breyetted captain for gallant services in ac-
| ton at Bermuda Hundred, Va, and major
| for meritorious services in the battle of
Strawberry Plain Va. Since the war he
| served as a member of military commits
sion abroad, from 1875 to 1877. and at va