The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30
OLD GUARD OF MEMORIAL DAY

and civil service commissioner OF New
York. He is living at his old residence
In New York city.
Howard Still Hale,
The last surviving "armyn com
mander and one of the four surviving
corps commanders of the Civil war is
; Mai. Gen. o. O. Howard. the seventy
ninth year of whose strenuous career is
beng spent at his old home at Burling
/ ton, In his native state of Vermont.
where he has lived since his retirement.
lie certainly did not look any the worse
| Tor wear when he rode lip Pennsvl
wanna avenue rs marshal OF one Of the
divisions of the Taft inaugural pa
rade. He sat his horse like cen
Ianr and kept it in perfect control
despite tho fact that his right sleeve
has hung empty at his side since The
bloody battle of Fair Oaks, in June,
o. But three months after that
unfortunate event he was on the field
again. fighting hard at Antictam, and
IN TWO months more he was ma lor-
general. Next he commanded q corps
through Gettysburg. lookout valley.
Missionary Ridge and Picketts Mill.
where he was again wounded. Then
he commanded the right wing of Sher-
man : army during tbe march to the
ms bugadier- general. he commanded
the Army of the Tennessee. and on
gagged in all Of its important battles
until the close of tho war. He re-
oeivcd tho thanks of congress for his
Gallantry at Gettysburg and medal
OF honor for distinguished bravery
a; Fair Oaks Since the Civil war he
has seen some troublesome Indian
hebtirg III campaigns against the Nez
R1Dnnslc
aI of this time he had worked also
for the cause of temperance and of the
colorcd brother. and was instrumental
IN establishing Howard university, the
colorcd institution Of Washington that
bears his name,
Wilson, the Cavalry General.
Tho third surviving corps command
err, Maj Gen. James Harrison Wilson,
Is now enjoying the scycntY-tirst sum
mer Of his life Mt his home in Will
mlngton, Del. lie was Just out of
West Point when the Civil war COM
ncnced, and entered the struggle rs
lleutenantcolonc of volunteers be
coming igadiergeneral in October,
%, and major general III April, 90.
lie was distinguished as an engineer
officer during the early part Of the war.
Then he was called to the war depart
mcnt to become chief of the cavalry
bureau, after which he returned 10 the
field in command of the third division
Of Sheridan S cavalry. 1t was in Oc-
tober, "a. that ne became n corps
commander, being given the great cav
airy corps of the western armies, IN
cmding ali of tke cavalry IN the mill
tary division Of the Mississippi 1t
was this corps of his that started out
from Nashville and took Selma. Ala,
and Macon, Ga. He also commanded
d. TAty.N
Davis. At tho close of the war he
was made lieutenant-c colonel Of regu-
lars, and "for gallant and meritorious
services was brevcttcd ma or-gcneral.
United States army. After being hon
orably discharged at his own request
in 1870 he engaged in large engineering
and railroad operations here and abroad
until the outbreak of the Spanish war,
in which he became major general Of
volunteers, commanding the first and
sixth army corps in Georgia and also
the departments of Matanzas and San
Ia Clara, Cuba. He was also in the
Porto Ricap campaign. He remained in
the army at the close Of the Spanish
war, and when the embassies in Peking
were besiegcd by the Boxers he com
manded the cooperating force Of
American and British troops which
captured the eight temples, He finally
commanded the American forces left
in Peking, and later represented our
army al the coronation of King Ed
ward He is the author Of seven books
on travel and biography, including a
life Of General Grant, which he wrote
IN collaboration with Charles A. Dana.
Dodge and Merritt.
Grenyille NJ. Dodge. the fourth Of tho
Union corps commanders still alive, IS
quite as famous for having built the
Pacific railway as for having been one
of tho great generals of the Union
army. He was but so when he com
mauded a brigade at Pea Ridge, whore
he had three horses shot under him,
and whore, although severely wounded
in the side, he kept the field until The
final rout OF the cnemy. Grant had
him at the top of his list for promotion
when he was made ma lor- general in
1864, at the age of only 33. Since the
war be built the Union Pacific rail