Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-08

most serious business. and he wanted to
perfect himself in every detail. He dld
not believe that really efficient soldiers
could be made except by severe military
training. and he did not consider any man
competent to teach or command others
who was not continually studying or Try
ing to improve himself He was such
rigid disciplinarian that he showed no
mercy to open vioators of the rules. HIS
vigilance in supervising every department
of the service made him terror to any
careless subordinate. At the same time
he did everything within his power to i'm
prove the condition and comfort OF his
men, He gave the Pennsylvania repre-
sentatives in the Continental Congress no
rest when his men, half naked. poorly
fed badly armed and far in arrears IN
their pay. had to suffer through the ne
glect or the poverty of the government.
and he spent practically every dollar he
received to lessen the hardships OF those
he led. Never did men show the erect OF
long drilling better than did the regiments
of the Pennsylvania line when, their term
of enlistment ended and the men peI1ni-
less. ragged and barefoot. they mutinied
and started from up the Hudson to march
to Philadelphia to demand redress from
Congress. From the first day to the last,
when, at Trenton. they met committee
from Congress. they maintained regular
military formation. incidentally they
hanged the emissaries Sir Henry Clinton
sent to bride them to join the British
forces.
OF all the lieutenants of Washington,
Wayne had the quickest perception. He
seemed to grasp all the phases Of a sub
ject in moment and his decisions were
given without hesitation. Once he came
to an opinion 1t was difficult for him to
change He never lost his self-possession
and at various times when his command
was in a position of extreme danger he
saved 1t by a move that was little short
of military genius. He appreciated to the
fullest the virtue of taking advantage of
the indecson of others and by sheer dar
ing he accomplished much. but he never
went into an engagement without careful
preparation. When Washington proposed
the Stony Point expedition to him Wayne
told him he did not believe 1t could sue
coed. but when Washington finally pre-
vailed Wayne altered his plans to suit
himself and put in fifteen days in the
neighborhood of Stony Point studying the
ground and working out the details. And
so perfect was his plan that when the
fort was carried the two assaulting forces
met almost in the exact center of the fort
For the campaign that closed his career
with the victory at Fallen Timbers he
drilled his men more than year. For
the complete defeat of the big Indian force
he met on that momentous day he plan
ned as skillfully as soldier can plan. He
showed a patience and caution curious
in the light of his sobriquet of Mad An
thony. But when he did strike he struck
like the furies. No wonder the Indians
called him the Tornado.
Anthony Wayne was born in Chester
Pa, January 1, 1745. He came
honestly by his love for war. His grand
father commanded a troop of dragons
under William of Orange at the battle of
the Boyne. and his father had lots Of ex-
perience fighting Indians Anthony.
when at school. paid more attention to
drilling his schoolmates, building re-
doubts and fighting mimic battles than to
his lessons, but he did study mathematics
and managed to get through somehow
The Waynes were rich. They had large
estate and were among the most SUBJ
stantial people in Pennsylvania. Like
Anthony Wayne started life
as a surveyor. When he was twenty
of a Philadelphia syndicate to survey a
tract of 100000 acres in Nova Scotia
which was to be opened to settlement and
its coal and iron mines developed.
Two years before the revolutionary war
Isaac Wayne, father of Anthony, died.
He was an ardent patriot and neither he
nor his son had any doubt as to the
troubles with the mother country leading
to war. Anthony. in anticipation of the
coming conflict. began studying Marshal
Saxe's Campaigns and the Commentaries
of Caesar on the Gallo War. After the
battle Of Lexington he studied every work
on military tactics that he could obtain.
He was elected to the committee of
safety, along with Benjamin Franklin,
Robert Morris and other prominent men.
and when Pennsylvania raised troops
Wayne was appointed colonel Of the Sd
Battalion. There were few men who
went into the continental army who saw
more service than Wayne or whose work
was spread over so wide territory.
From early in '76 until months after the
surrender at Yorktown he was engaged
and he took part in battles from Quebec,
on the north. to Savannah, on the south
He got his share of wounds. too. being
wounded twice in the battle of German
town, once at Stony Point. once in Geor-
gia and once at Yorktown.
The ill-starred invasion of Canada gave
to Wayne his first employment in tho
war, he and his regiment being sent to
reinforce Sullivan and Arnold. 1t was