Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-25
OF INTEREST TOLOCAL VETERANS
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command of General Hancock, and at
the battle of Gettysburg, was next in
command to General Hancock. Gen
eral Miles, recently retired as COM
mander-in-chief of the armies of the
United States was on General Cald-
wells staff as acknowledgement.
General Caldwell, who for twelve
years previous to last September
was American consul at Son Jose,
Costa RIGA, is now living in Topeka.
General Caldwell, his wife and niece,
Miss Louise Caldwell, having only last
fall left San Jose, which is about four
teen miles distant from Cartago, the
scene of the disastrous earthquake last
week, believe that many of their
friends in the republic persisted in
the destroyed city. General Caldwell
was close friend of DR.. Bocanegra,
the Guatemalen magistrate to the
Central American court of arbitration,
who escaped with three of his children.
his wife and youngest child persisted
General Caldwell is acquainted
with many interesting features of
the destroyed city, and speaks of it
as his real home. 'Cartago', the
general said, is an ancient city,
about fourteen miles from San Jose,
the new city. Cartago was at one
time the capital of the republic, bu
the new city claimed it and it was
removed. Cartago's population Of
$4,000 is almost entirely native, and
there were no great buildings there
other than the ancient churches and
government buildings. The oldest
houses of the oldest town in the
republic were in Cartago. Carriage
is located at the base of the volcano
Irazu, and this volcano has repeatedly
threatened the town, but in this last
disaster seems to have played no part
whatever.
lone interesting feature of the
disaster in Costa Rlca, brought out by
General Caldwell is the fact that on
May 5, the day following the evening
when Carriage was destroyed, a new
president of the republic was TO have
been installed in office in San Jose.
Wether the ceremonies took place is
not known.
However as these lines are regard
ing General Caldwell's distinction of
being the only surviving. major-general
of the Civil war his record is more
pertinent to the subject.
A graduate of Amherst university
in 1856, General Caldwell enlisted in
the army at the opening of the civil
war as colonel of the Eleventh Maine
Infantry. He was then % years of
age. Before he had been in the
service six months he was made
acknowledgement in command OF
volunteer troops for faithful and
meritorious service. He was honor
ably mustered out with the rank OF
brevet major-general at the close OF
the war.
LAS stated General Caldwell was
with the army of the Potomac through
out the war and great part of the
time was next in command to General
Hancock. His command was the
largest in the army, having four
brigades in his charge, others COM
manding three. In command of his
division, General Caldwell was IN every
battle in which the army of the
Potomac engaged the peninsular
campaign, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill.
Antietam and Gettysburg. At the
battle of Antietam, / was especially
fortunate. said General Caldwell.
i had only one brigade that engage
ment and | took seven colors and 300
prisoners.
Following his army career, General
Caldwell engaged in political and civil