The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-17
GEN. WILLIAM 5. WORTH DEAD
LED HIS REGIMENT IN THE
CHARGE UP san JUAN HILL.
Retired Because Of Disabling wounds
Received In That Battle-Only Son OF
the Famous Gen. william jenkins
Worth Gallant Soldier or Two Wars.

Brig. Gen. William Scott Worth, U. s. A.,
retired, died last evening at Clifton, Staten
Island, in the home of his nephew, Dr.
John 7. Sprague. Sanitary Superintendent
Of Richmond borough. He had been i'll
long time from complication Of disorders
due. in some measure, to wounds received
in the Spanish American War.
Gen. Worth was the only son of Gen.Wil-
liam Jenkins Worth, whom most New
Workers. know through his monument in
Madison Square, and who was one Of the
most gallant soldiers in the War Of 1912
and the Mexican War Brig. Gen. Worth
was born at Albany on Jan 8, 1910. His
mother was Stafford Of Albany. He
was educated at private school at Dobbs
Ferry and at the Albany Academy. At
the age Of IS he went to FL Paso, N. NJ, with
his brother-in-aw, Col. John T. sprague,
and was put in charge Of a silver mine.
At the beginning Of the civil war he went
to Washington to seek a commission in
the Regular army. He was at Wizards
Hotel wnen volunteers were called for to
protect the city. and he responded. He
received command Of a provisional COM
pany. He was commissioned Second Lieu
tenant IN April, 1881, and was made First
lleutendUJ OH June 4, loOl, III INC ERull
Infantry, the regiment which his father
had organized at Sa ckett's Harbor in 1888
He was at the first battle of Bull Run, and
served with the Army OF the Potomac from
it's organization until the surrender at
ApPomattox.
distinguished service in the assault on the
enemy's lines before Petersburg and in
the operations in the campaign against
Richmond and Virginia" and he was bre-
vetted jor on April o. 1885, for gallantry
during the campaign terminating with the
Captain in January, 1896, and later created
Major Of the Second Infantry. At the end
of the war he was ordered with his regiment
to the Pacific Coast, and for eighteen years
he was constantly in the field against the
Indians making march during the Ban
mock war from Arizona to Oregon.
In November 1894 he was promoted Lieu
tenant Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry.
and from 1895 to 1898 he was in command
Of the troops on Governors Island
He was a fine specimen of manhood
when he left for Cuba with his regiment.
and but for the wounds he received in the
charge at San Juan Hill he might lived
many mere years e, C9i Wyckoh, head OF
when he was struck down. Lieut-Col.
Worth assumed command.
He was going UP the slope waving his
sword when a bullet hit him In the left
breast, plougned luz way around tne preast-
bone, and lodged in the upper part Of the
right arm, causing double fracture. His
sword fell from his right hand, but he
stopped and picking it up with his left,
shouted Come on, boys" Another
bullet hit him in the breast and he vas
forced to give up the command through
weakness from loss Of blood |
He received his commission as Brigadier-
General Of Volunteers on July ~. 1893. and
was made Colonel Of the Sixteenth Infantry
on Aug. H. 1898 He was commissioned
Brigadier- General. United States Army. on
Oct. 90, 1898, and was retired on Nov. 9, |
1898, on account OF severe disa bling wounds
In 1850 Gen. Worth married Florence,
daughter of the late Rev. Delos Mansfield.
Mrs, Worth died IN 1900. With the death Of
kins Worth is now extinct. The descend
ants on the female side include the children
and grandchildren of his daughter Mary,
who married Gen. John T. Sprague.