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Army and
Navy News
q ~ e ~ - - ~ - e y - - 1898
CAPT. REEFS COMMISSION
HAS FAILED TO ARRIVE

Army and Navy Journal of November
6 gives considerable space to the fact
that on October 25 he was commission
ed rear admiral Of the Navy. The
only reason assigned for the failure of
his commission to arrive is the pres
sure of business imposed upon Presi-
DEM Taft, due TO his long absence from
Washington. The Army and Navy
Journal has two items concerning Cap
tain Rees and his army and naval ca
reer, as follows:
The career Of Capt. Corwin P. Rees,
I. ). n, who has Just been promoted
to rear admiral, and whose record APP
pears elsewhere in this issue, is unique
in the annals Of the United States
Navy, in that he fought in more than
thirty land battles in the Civil War
in the Volunteer Army before entering
the Navy. We have had other sea of
ficers who were some time with land
forces before beginning naval life, but
none whose time in the Army was so
crowded with activity as that of young
Rees, who took part in General Sher-
man S march to the sea and fought in
such historic conflicts as Resaca Dallas
and the siege of Atlanta. By joining
the Volunteers at the age of fifteen
he was enabled to see the close of the
war before he reached his majority
and was still young enough to enter
the Naval Academy.
His record follows:
Capt Corwin P. Rees, z. S. N, who
was promoted rear admiral on October
%, 1909, was born in Reilly, Butler
county, Ohio, September 4, 1848. He
enlisted in Company 3, Fiftyfourth
Ohio Volunteers, Second Brigade, Sec
ond Division, Fifteenth Army Corps,
February 81, 1864, and participated in
the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw
Mountain, the siege of Atlanta, the
march TO the sea, the storming of Fort
McAllister, the battle of Bentonville
and minor engagements, receiving an
honorable discharge after the close of
the war, August Is, 1865. He was ap-
pointed midshipman, L. S. Navy, July
81, 1866, and was graduated in 1870.
He served on the Guerrero, 1902;
Portsmouth, December, 1872, to July,
1874; Saranac, July, 1874, to July,
1875; Benecia, July, 1875, to Novem-
Der. 1875: Lackawanna, November,
1875, to 1877, and on the Guard as
navigating officer, September, 1877, to
December, 1878 He was at the Naval
Academy as instructor in Department
of Drawing, January, 1879, to August,
1881, and was next in the Essex for
cruise around the world, November,
1881, TO January, 1885. He next went
TO the training ship New Hampshire,
and Arctic steamer Alert during April,
1855. and was on the Michigan, North
western Lakes, from May, 1885, to
April. 1883. His subsequent duties in
cluded duty at the War College, Au-
gust, 1888, to November, 1888; on the
kearsarge, November, 1888, to Janu-
arv, 1889; Tallapoosa, January, 1889,
to January. 1892; Michigan, as execu-
tive officer. May, 1925; on the No
noeacv. as navigator, August IS, 1895,
to april II, 1896; Olympia, as navi-
gator, April IS, 1896, to October %
1896. and returned to the Monocacy, as
| executive officer. October %, 1896
serving on her till March 80, 1898. He
returned to the Olympia, for duty as
executive officer, April 6. 1898, and
served on her in the battle of Manila
Bay. May /, 1898, and at the capture
of ManiIa, August Is, 1898. He was
promoted lieutenant commander March
| 3. 1889. and was on duty at the Tor
pedo Station, as executive, March 81
] 500 He was advanced five numbers
| for eminent and conspicuous conduct in
battle, February Il, 1901; was pro
NOTED commander May y, 1901, and in
| August Of the same year was assigned
10 command the Monongahela. H
was next on lighthouse duty, was cap
tain Of the navy yard at Portsmouth
New Hampshire, and commandant OF
the naval station al Honolulu, that be
| ing his latest assignment.