Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-13
WITH MILITARY HONOR
FUNERAL OF LIEUT.. COL. GEO.
W. sToucH, RETIRED.
Interment In Arlington, Following
Services at st. Nargaret's
p. e. Church.

The funeral Of the late Lieut., Col Georg,
w. Stouch. u. 8. A.. retired, took place a
2 o'clock this afternoon from st. Mar
garet's Protestant Episcopal Church, thu
| remains being inferred at Arlington will
military honors. The pallbearers were
Brig. Gen. Andrew s. Burt, retired; Brig
Gen. John ]. O'Conneu, RETIRED Col Henri,
P. Mccain, military secretary: Col. Jane:
T. Kerr, general staff; Major Henry Ro
meyne, retired. and Lieut.. William U. Will
Jams, retired.
The death of Lieut.. Col Stouch occurred
Sunday. at the army general hospital, thi.
city. He was born in Gettysburg, Pa.
March 3, 1912. He was the son of Leonard
Stouch, native of the same town. but fol
years resident of Kentucky. The earlier
part of his life was passed in Gettysburg.
When fourteen years of age he accompa-
MED his family to Kentucky, where he
spent the next five years. November 80
1851. he enlisted at Washington, d. c., In
Company B. 1st Battalion, 18th United
States Infantry, and joined his regimen,
the 2Sth of December at Perryvilie, Md. His
promotion was rapid. February 26. 1862
he was appointed corporal; May 6, 1863, hi
was promoted to be sergeant major for gal
liant conduct at Charlottesville; June
1864. he was promoted to be second lieuten
ant in the Sd United States Infantry, and
the S1st of December. 1854. was promoted
noted to be captain. He was made a
major and chief commissary of subsist-
ance, United States volunteers, June 8
1888. and was promoted to be major in the
10th Infantry, United States army, August
80. 1898; promoted to lieutenant colonel or
the retired list April %, 1904.
With Sykes Brigade.
After joining the army he remained in
camp with his regiment at Perrysville. Md,
On the 10th of March the regiment with
others was organized into what was after
ard known as Gen. Sykes famous brigade
of regulars. The brigade crossed Long
bridge the same evening and camped near
Alexandria, Va. From this nucleus the
Army of the Potomac was formed. Lieut..
Col. Stouch was with the regiment at the
enemy evacuated that stronghold he was
Frustrated with severe case of malarial
typhoid fever. and was sent to the hospital
at Annapolis, Md. He again reported for
duty September ), 1862. but had relapse
and was sent to Fairfax Hospital near
Alexandria. He returned to service Febru-
airy IS, 1853, and joined his command at
Camp Potomac, near Falmouth. He was
with the regiment at Charlottesville and
Gettysburg, where he received a severe
wound. He was in the hospital at York,
Pa, from July o, 1863, until January g.,
1864 when he was sent to the headquarters
ton Harbor June s, the same year, he ac-
cepted commission in the Sd Infantry.
and three days later Joined his command
at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor. From
that time until his retirement December
10. 1898. he served cont nuously with the
regiment. being in the departments of Mis-
souri,, Dakota and the Gulf until January
16, 1893.
During these years he performed various
duties that come into the life of an army
officer February %, 1oJ4, he was trans
ferred as acting agent for the Cheyennes
He was then transferred as acting agent
from the Crows at the Crow agency in
Montana. June 80, 1893. he was relieved
as Indian agent and appointed major and
chief commissary of the United States vol
unteers, and was assigned to duty as chief
commissary in the Department of Colorado
July q, 1898. He was retired from active
service December Is, 1898, and on the last
day of March. $780, he was relieved from
duty as chief commissary.
His Record
Col Stouch was regarded as careful
and painstaking official. accurate In every
detail, and fifty supplemented a record as
a brave and daring soldier with that of
faithful performance of duties associated
with a life of peace He had a member
ship In several associations at York, Pa,
among them being the Royal Arch Masons
and the Grand Army of the Republic, and
was also member of commandery of
the Loyal Legion in Colorado In 1869 he
married Miss Augusta Wantz. at York Pa.
They have two children. The daughter,
Florence, is the wife of Capt. James H.
McRea of the United States army The
son, George L.. Is a veteran of the Spanish
American war, and has seen service in the
Philippines