The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

prominent figure in New York most o.
the time
Grierson's Indian fighting was done in
the Southwest mainly and extended over
twenty years He was a major general Of
volunteers when the war closed. having
won the rank 10y raids IN Mississippi lie
is eighty-one. was retired as br,gad.ar
general. L. $. A., IN 1890. He lives al
i Jacksonville, III.
Howard best remembered as the head
Of the Freedmans Bureau u the UIae
/ years following the war. is living ogt his
/ old age at Burlington. VT. He is seventy
six After leaving West Point De was
[ sent % fight the Seminoles IN Florida He
was present at the first battle Of Bull
Run; De commanded a division at Antie-
/ tam and Fredericksburg. am army corps
at Charlottesville, Gettysburg, Mission
airy Ridge. and Chattanooga; Jed the ricnt
wing Of Sherm8uS army IN its march to
/ the sea. and became commander Of tine.
Army and Department Of Tennessee IN
/ 1854. when he was made a full brlgadier
| general
/ In 1910 he was stationed in Tho Pacific
/ Northwest. where. in 1s1. he commanded
/ the Nez Perce campaign and the Ban
mock war in ISIS H1 WAS retired nai1r
] general I'm 1924, but gave mueh time and
attention 20 the camps ~ Tampa. Mo
/ bile. and ChckamauEa I'm 1G>. IIc has
written as well as fought, and is strongly
i religious.
"The Yankee King of spain"
Now living in New York rs he did be-
fore the war, Daniel E. Sickles, eighty
two. was a major general in 1859, when
| retired. Educated at the University Cf
New York. he became a journeyman
printer. then q lawyer. and then a poliu-
clan, holding various state Offices. Soon
after his marriage TO Teresa Bagliou, a
young Italian girl. he was appointed sec
retary Of legation at London, under
Buchanan. then Minister.
Buchanan ran for the Presidency in
IlS56. Sickles returned to this country,
and next year. went u Washington. a
member Of the Lower House. Philip Bar
ton Key whose father wrote the star
SpanaIed Banner" became Mrs. Sickles
Hover. Sickles shot MIN 70 death. was
tried for murder. and acquitted under "tha
higher law" Edwin NJ Stanton being his
chief counsel
At the beginning Of the war Sicl,les
raised a brigade. was commissioned col
onel. and fought desperately. He was corps
commander at Gettysburg. where he COW
cred himself with glory and lost his right
! leg. yet remained in active service. In
1859 President Gra2k msde him Minister
20 Spain, which place he lillcG till lSlj.
Isabella had been dethroned in 1865 and
Spain was in turmoil. Amadeus, the Ital-
ian Duke of Aosta, and father Of the
present Duke Of the Abruzzi-explorer
and mountain climber-was King from
1sI0 to 1873 Meanwhile Sickles had taken
la Spanish woman for his second wife, and
was a man Of such prominence that the
prime minister. Castelar,. often appealed
to hlIu Tor support.
In return CASTELAR, followed his advice
so closely that Sickles was nicknamed
The Yankee King Of Spain He re-
turned home when Amadeus abdicated TO
make way for the republic. Sickles' re-
call was caused by his attitude on the
'Virginius affair." He wanted TO send
an army TO Cuba and force the fight
which finally came ia 1StN
The career of James II. Wilson, seven
" next Saptembc:, and now q resident Of
Wilmington, Del. ms been full os Zig
romance. He VAS graduated from West
Point as an engineer in 1860 Soon after
Sumter was fired on he attracted Grant S
attention and laid out the lines for the
sieges Of Corinth and Vicks5urg for
which he got his brigadiers commission
when only a little past twenty-thrae He
did things continually after that until Ap-
pomattoz. and closed the war by the
race through Alabama and Georgia wFiCh
ended in jefferson Davis capture
Wilson became i major general before
he was twenty-four, but after the war
had TO take a lieutenant ColoneTs rank
and pay. So in 1870 he left the army
and on Grants recommendation went "a
Egypt There he laid out some OF the
permanent fortifcations around Alexan-
, dria and Cairo that saved the British
E when Arab Pasha TevOlted. Wilson thar
returned home to build railroads.
, When the Spanish war came he rc-en.
, tered the army as a major general Of vol.
D unteers commanding corps in the 0ccU.
r patton of Cuba and in the Porto Rico
, campaign. When the expedition to Pekir
T. for the relief of the legations was organ
lied he went as commander, headed tbs
e combined American and British force, II
- the capture OF eight temples. and was
. placed in control OF the Imperial City:
s entrances. When King Edward was
e crowned Wilson attended the coronation
s officially and, in 1901, because of distin
guished services. was placed on the army
t retired list He helped Charles A. Dana