Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-06-30
WEST POINT GRADUATES
Lieutenant Moore The Latest
Addition To The Bright
Galaxy OF Names
THE ANNAPOLIS QUOTA
Her OOOdly Share OF Army Graduates
Another Capital Mistake
Communicated


Messrs. Editors You are greatly
mistaken when you say that Cadet
Moore is the only Annapolitan who
ever graduated from West Point.
| There are many others whom | can
recall and doubt not there are still
! others whom have overlooked or for
gotten. First will name three
George Humphreys, eldest son of
/ Rev. DIR. Hector Humphreys, princi-
pal of st. Johns College. This young
officer was an uncle of Mr.. William
l.. Marcy, of our city. He died soon
after he graduated from West Point.
John Mullan, who graduated high
up in his class. He died very recent
ly in Washington.
Richard Brewer, son of Judge Mich
olas Brewer, and brother of Mir. Ju-
lian Brewer. He went South at the
outbreak of the Civil War and was
killed in battle He was a cl ;smate
at st. Johns and friend of my
broher, Ju lge d. r Magruder, If these
three | speak with positive Ger tainty,
as they were my contemporary IS.
Edward Lloyd Nicholson, son of
Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson and
brother of Col. Joseph H. Nicholson.
Henry Hobbs, half-brother of Bishop
William Pinkney and DR.. Ninian
Pinkney, of the U. S. Navy. l have
always heard that these two graduated
from West Point and feel sure that
they did, although cannot from my
personal knowledge verify it, as | do
in the case of the first three | have
named. They both died young, l
think.
There is one Of whom | will speak,
the peer of any man who ever left
West Point-Col. Charles F. Smith.
| cannot assert of my own knowledge
that he was born in Annapolis, but
have strong reasons for believing it,
He was the son of DIR. Smith, of the
Army. The family was prominent in
Annapolis for several generations.
He was the brother of Mrs. William
N. LETTERS and the father of Mrs. Mar
shall Oliver and Col. Allan Il. Smith,
of the Army. He lived for some
time in the house upon the foundation
of which the Claude Flats on State
Circle, are erected.
Few men whom | have met so inn
pressed me as did Colonel Smith. His
fine military bearing, handsome face
and figure, courteous manners, with
his intellectual qualities made him a
distinguished man among men. He
died very early in the Civil War. 1t
was of him that General Sherman as
serted that eff Charles Il. Smith had
lived General Grant would never have
figured in history" He was very
much such man as General Robert.
+. Lee.
In conclusion / will mention Colonel
Alan b. Smith, son of Col. Charles F.
Smith. and Col. George K. McGun-
negle, both Annapolitans. / am not
sure. but think they are West Point
ers; but whether or not they both
stand high in their profession. Even
Annapolis with her glorious memo
ries of the past may be proud of the
bright galaxy of names | have men
toned; now can we make better
wish for the future of our young
townsman and graduate than that his
name may De worthy OF place among
those to whom attention has now been
called.
j. X. MAGRUDER.
THE Capital stands corrected. 1t
is only one of its many intakes.
What the Capital meant to say in con-
nection with Lieutenant Moore's pic
ture the other day was that he is the
only graduate in the last twenty-six
years since Annapolis has had daily
paper the Evening Capital, so far as
known. The CAPITAL is always glad
to correct mistakes. In the last quar-
ter of a century many young men
from Annapolis have been called to
West Point but few have been chosen
except Lieutenant Moore. Ed.