The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-27
GEN. HOWARD DIES IN NORTH Noted Military Leader SW- renders to Death. USEFUL CAREER AT AN END Was One. of Greatest Foes to Con
 federaie Forces. Commanded Two Csrps for Time at Gettysburg--Durisg Last Years Was Interested h Phiian-
 threpic Work. Especially
 Among Negroes
USEFUL CAREER AT AN END

Burlington. Vt. Oct. 2s.--Death to- night ended the notable career of Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard at his home. here tonight The end came after lengthy illness.
 General Howard was generally known and beloved here. and the an- nouncement has cast paii of gloom over the entire town.
 Last week General Howard was in Ontario delivering his lecture on "Abra- ham Lincoln" His last public appear ance was at London on Sunday night. On Monday he returned to his home in Burlington and was apparetly in his usual good health. Tonight. while sit ting in a chair at his home, he was at- tackled by heart disease and was dead when a physician reached the house. The exact time of death was 7:2o ?. m.
 Including General Towards services in the Indian wars. he was probably in more engagements than any ,ther offi- cer in the United States army.
 Gen. Oliver Otis Howard was a na- tive of Leeds, Me, where he was born November 8. 1880. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at the United States Military Academy in 1854. Upon his graduation he became First Lieutenant and instructor in mathematics.
 When Fort Sumter was fired upon he raised a Maine regiment. and com manded a brigade at the opening of the war at Bull Run. Forming the rear guard, his line turned back the Confederate cavalry and saved Wash- ington. For gailantry in that engage ment he was made brigadier general of volunteers. He was twice wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks. losing his arm on June l, 1862. and consequently was on sick leave for six months. He was engaged in recruiting service until Sep tember of that year. when he parfici- pated in the battle of Antietam. and Rfterward took Gen. John Sedgwick's division in the Second Corps.
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 In November he became major-gen- eral of volunteers. He commanded the 11th Corps during General Joseph Hook er's operations in the vicinity of Frederick sburg. May 2, 1863; served bravely at Gettysburg, Lookout Val ley and Missionary Ridge and was on the expedition for the rlief of Knox viIle in 1863.
 By the death of General Reynolds. on the first day of the battle of Get tysburg, he was left to the sole com mand of the two army corps from 9 a. m. to 4:30 D. m. His force cap-. tured 4.0o0 prisoners and four Confed- crate generals. and when his force had been reduced from 3o.000 to 10000 men, he successfully replied more than twice that number of General Lees veterans. For this he received the thanks of Congress. On the second day of Gettysburg he thrice asked General Meade to plant batteries on Little Round Top. the delay to do which was so nearly fatal to the Un- ton Army. General Howard command ed the artillery at the cetemery, and for three nights he slept with his head pillowed on a grave.
 From December. 1883, until July, 1884, General Howard was in occupa- tion of Chattanooga. Then, at the suggestion of Generals Grant and Sherman. he was assigned to the army of the Tennessee in the invasion of Georgia. He and General Sherman. occupying the same tent. planned and excuted the great mrach to the sea, Howard commanding the right wing. He was engaged at Dalton. Resaca, Adamsyille and Pickett's Miil, where he was again wounded. He was at the surrender of Atlanta and joined in the pursuit of the Confederates in Alabama, under General John B. Hood, from October 4. until December IA, 1864.
 He became brigadier general in the United States army December 2l, 1864. He was subsequently employed in all the important battles until April 26 1865. In March of that year he was brevetted major general for gallentry at the battle of Ezra Church and the campaigns against Atlanta.
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 In May, 1865. he was placed at the head of the Freedmen's Bureau. his duties lasting until 1874, when he was assigned to the Department of Colum- bia. In 1877 he led the expedition against the Nez Perces Indians. and in 1878 he led the campaign against the Bannocks and Flutes.
 In 1SSl-S2 General Howard was su- perintendent of the United States Mil ftary Academy, and in 1886 was com Enissioned major general and given command of the Division of the Pa cific. A few years later he was trans 1erred to the command of the Atlantic Department and on November 8, 1894, he was retired from active service by the operation of the age limit.
 During the years following his re- firement General Howard gave much of his .time and attention to the sub iect of negro education. He was the founder of the Lincoln Memorial Uni versity at Cumberland Gap. Tenn, and a warm friend of the school at Manas- sas and other institutions for the up- lifting of the negro. He was also act i've in the temperance movement and other Christian work.
 Bowdoin College bestowed upon Gen eral Howard the degree of A. M. in 1853; Waterville College. IL. D.. in 1865; Shurtleff College, the same. in 1885, and Gettysburg Theological Sem mary in 1866. Tn 1884 he was made chevaIier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government.
 General Howard wrote extensively for magazines and published two books. s'Donald's School Days" (1S7s) and a.c,hief Losenh. or the Nez Perces in