The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-04
. CEN. O. o. HOWARD.
A.. died October Goth at his home in Bur-
inatpn, Vt. A Sketch of his Career.

liver Otis Howard, of humble origin
If great achievement in war and in
VI. will be remembered long in histo-
Is The founder of Lincoln memorial
--rsity. located at Cumberland Gap,
r.. almost at the cornering of three
es- Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes
and the only point within thirty
Is where a wagon could cross theCum-
and range of the Appalachian noun
at the time of the civil war.
was the result of a talk between
Howard and Abraham Lincoln,
# after the battle ofGettysburg, dur
q ch the President urged upon him
virtues of the loyal mountaineers,
d whom Lincoln himself had sprung.
lore than thirty years afterward, when
lure of the Barring Bros. brought
-rgr TO the manufacturing center and
til resort, created by S25, 900, 900 of
-is1 capital, Howard stopped a day
. night with his friend Darwin H.
hes of New York, at the place from
gee he had marched to Chattanooga
gokout mountain and to the support
rant. They found that sanitarlum,
, for S39, 900, was for sale for SIS, 900
all its beautiful grounds and extern
arm lands, and with one heart and
-, they declared this to be the place
he Lincoln memorial.
anis We're raised and the university
dartered by Tennessee in 1897. 1t
cantrolled by a board of trustees
17 from different denominations and
Z. 10Th north and south, and thus be-
nonsectarian and nonsectional. 1t
jicated to the spiritual, education
Il. mater al uplift of the mountaineers
ended from the Scotch-1rish, Eng
Germans and French Huguenots,
Howard loved to call "his people"
e, to the maintenance and extension
aa- Institution he devoted the remain
ss his active life in lectures, litera-
personal appeals and in its manage
IS president.
HIS WORK AT GETTYSBURG.
war historian will make Gen. How
most famous because of what he did
i-r-ysburg, July /, 1868. Gen. Rey-
!, al fallen, leaving Howard in COM
of the field. Assailed by Lee,
sreet and Ewell, with thrice his
Of men, he saved his army and
atry, and secured the adoption of
ZION by Gen. Meade.
j. the second day he repeatedly sent
ages to Meade, asking the occupa-
Little Round Top, and for three
. he pillowed his head on grave at
.--ery hill, where $50 cannon of the
converged their fire. With his
y the final charge of Pickett S men
thinned that four of their regi-
. standards We're taken by 10 men
nat remained of the 18th Massa-
-.-s, supporting his guns.
his superb bravery and sound mil
igment he received the thanks
ress and the American people, "
-t.re on Jan. 2S, 1864.
Howard was known as "the Chris
Ter, s." the American Havelock, "
he so much reminded his fellow
@ the rank and file of his army and
'.uple of America, of the famous
{ general.
f aj the most sublime faith in God
aGy submission to His will, and
llEI he had full reliance upon the
Of prayer he was resigned and
"" ei when the answers did not fulfil
pressed desires. Once when he
for victory and met with defeat
supply said, God did not so order it,
70 tight will triumph in the end. "
CraL and after the war he was an
the Christian commission, be-
90 resident of the National temper
= Getty upon the retirement of John
ruaker, was at the head of the Con-
Eauonal home missionary society for
-s years, and was connected with
ERA other religious, reform, educa-
Ia. and philanthropic organizations, to
Of which he gave his zeal and his in
=rae.
B0YHOoD DAYS ON A FARM.
Diver Otis Howard was born in Leeds,
ine. November s, 1880, the son of
Tand Bailey and Eliza (Otis) How
His family was in moderate cir
distances and he was obliged to spend
0oynood in hard work upon the farm,
t'Gng the district school during such
be as could be spared, and afterward
-Hg for college in the academies at
fmouth and Yarmouth. His father
q when he was but nine years old and
9tiy afterward he went to live with
notber's brother in Hallowell. He
.7Tel Bowdoin college in 1876, and was
a'-ated in 1850, being given the de-
s Of master of arts three years later.
trough the influence Of his uncle he
. snpointed a cadet in the u S. mill
I csdemy at West Point September
.A and was graduated fourth in his
~ vt is in 1854, with the brevet rank
'-eond Lieutenant of ordnance.
1is r"gular army record is that he was
.soyed to second lieutenant February
81; first lieutenant July /, 1857,
.@syer general December q, 1864;
General March 10, 1868, and re-
ii age limit November s, 1894.
a. served at the Watervliet, N. Y,
/ augusta, Me-, arsenals from his
i 4ati0n until 1857, when he was ap-
.e chief of ordnance on the staff
lea. Harvey, and participated in hos
against the Seminole Indians in
saa, On September 81, 1857, he was
s47d for duty at the military academy
%olessor of mathematics, and served
until the opening of the Civil War,
~ he asked to be given active service
Ne field.
.na being refused, he resigned to ac-
position in the volunteer service,
vas commissioned as colonel of the
Name regiment, June 4, 1861, and
10 the front. He served in the de-
" of Washington and commanded a
saue IN the Manassas campaign, being
Esged in the first battle Of Bull Run,
|F2l, 1861.
nqGADIER GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS.
was appointed brigadier-general of
Ulcers September 8, 1861, and COM
eued division in the defence of Wash
on, making a reconnaissance early in