Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-05-10
MARYLANDMILITARY COLLEGE
THE GROWTH OF MILITARY
SPIRIT HEREABOUT.
St. Johns And Companies NJ And
6 Instructing Officers For
The Army And
NAVY.

6 contains the following article of
local interest, written by Elihu s.
Riley, Esq, the historian of Annap-
oils, and we'll known newspaper man
Annapolis is eminently a military
town. Ia il are the Naval Academy.
educating midshipmen TO he officers of
the Navy; the School of Application,
instructing officers of the Marine
Corps in the duties of their profession;
st. Johns College, a semi military
institution of the State of Maryland.
and Companies NJ and G., of the
First Regiment. of the Maryland Ma
tional Guard
st. Johns College, the descendant
Of King Williams School, established
in 1896, became a military establish
ment, under resolution ll6 of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, of the
session of 1925 This resolve was re-
cited: Whereas, the visitors and
governors of st. Johns College have
resolved to establish professorship
for the instruction of the students of
the institution in the science of civil
engineering and military tactics, and
the Legislature being disposed to en-
courage them in the establishment of
such professorship, therefore, it
was resolved that the governor and
council give the college $50 many aud
such arms as they may require. A
session later the professor of this
branch of obstruction was given by
the Assembly the title of lieutenant
colonel
The growth OF the military spirit in
st. Johns has been steady and uni
form. Indeed, there is national tone
TO the institution. Amongst its ear
lier contribu tions TO the two services
were John Ridgely, surgeon of the
Navy, who was on board the Philadel-
phia when captured in Tripoli, where,
Dy his medical ministrations To the
Bey's daughter, he Ewas enabled to Sc
cure the freedom of the city to all the
imprisoned American officers; William
Rodgers, surgeon, u. s. N; Tobias
Watkins, assistant surgeon; Nicholas
Harwood, George Mann, lieutenants,
u. S. n: John Contee, lieutenant,
u. S. M. @. Thomas Williamson and
John Wesley Peace, surgeons. u. s.
n. Daniel Randall, deputy p. G.,
u. S. A. Hyde Ray, surgeon, U. S.
N; John II. Shaw, purser: John
Gwinn, captain, u. s. n. William
Latimer, U. S. N. This closes the
list from 1855, the institution of the
college proper, down to 1870 The
roster would not be complete il it were
not added that, in the class of 1896,
graduated Francis Scott Key, the au-
thor of "The Star Spangled Banner. "
Amongst the later additions TO the
Army and Navy from st. John s, and
since the war with Spain, are Lieut..
Walter ID. Smith, Lieut.. Oscar X.
FOLEY, Lieut.. Edward III. Tarbutton,
Assistant Surgeon Douglas +. Duvall.
Lieut. E. Berkeley Iglehart, Lieut.
Charles @. Herman, Lieutenant James
f.. Abbott, Captain Joseph b. Doug
Lass, all of the United States Army !;
Lieut.. William G. Fay and Lieut..
Eugene Mullan, United States Marine
Hospital Service, and Lieut.. Dewitt
Lyles, who gave his life TO his coun-
try in the Philippines; Il. b. Carey,
now cadet at West Point; +. Will
Jams, graduate of West Point /;
Lieut.. Thomas l.. Brewer, Lieut.. ID.
Whiting. Lieut.. S. L. Mackall, Lieut..
X. L. Whitson, all of the United
States Army.
In the Philippine Constabulary are
L. A. Rohrer and O.P. Hollingsworth.
In the Navy are Assistant Naval Con-
structor William q. DuBose, Midship-
man Abram Claude, Douglass Howard,
Ensign Julius +. Hellwig. were all
students of st. Johns; j. Writ Wilmer
holds an appointment in the Army,
but has not yet been commissioned.
Students Perry Wilmer and Armine
Ways Smith have appointments t.
West Point. In the two Maryland
regiments in the field during the Span
ish- American War were the following
officers, who had been students in st.
Johns Major Washington q. Claude,
surgeon Captain +. ID. Pusey, Lieu.
tenant Hugh Ridgley Riley, Lieuten
ant Thomas l.. Brewer, Lieutenant
George r. Tydings, Captain James @.
Porter. and, in toto, eighty graduates
of st. Johns served in the Army and
Navy during that war.
The st. Johns battalion now numbers
two hundred, under the command OF
Major Armine w. Smith, supported by
Captains M. X. Neville and John NJ
Green, the commanding officers of ths
two companies of the battalion. The
professor of military science and tao
tic is Major William A. Thompson
II. S. A, retired. May IL, 1902, the
UaIbh1lO0 WAS lus spCCtcu Dg 0hpea4h Ii
d. Hoyle, Artillery Corps, Assistant
|. G., ID. E., who says: 1.-THE cere
mony was we'll done; distances were
well kept; the pass in review in quicl
time was excellent, in double time
good. I" This battalion is well-drillec
and under good discipline, and it,
condition reflects credit on the cade
officers. The band is in good condi
tion. 1t keeps excellent time in it
marches and is of great assistance il
military movements The cadets arr
we'll set up, smart in their movements
and, as a whole. present a fine ap
pearance.
Each year the battalion has week
| -encampment and is drilled in the ex
ercises of camp life The last inspec
tion, under the general government
| was made on July..2S, 1904, by Captain
H. LaF. Applewhite. captain of Artil
lery Corps, u. S. A, inspector. HI
stated in his report: 1.-THE militar,
| disci pine of st. johns College show
a very high state Of efficiency. Th'
discipline of the cadet body is excel
lent. The matter Of discipline, an
informed, rests almost entirely will
the commissioned officers (of the senio
| class the officer on duty with TIN
college is endeavoring to carry out, a
| far as practicable, the regular Arm,
methods in all things military, hold
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