The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-09-02
WEST VIRGINIA OFFICERS
IN ARMY OF UNCLE SAM

! medical department; Edwin R. stu
! art, corps of engineers. Major Ruth
ers entered the army as private in
1880. Major Sutherland and Major
Ford volunteered during the war with
Spain and the remaining majors on
this list are graduates of the Military
Academy at West Point.
The West Virginia. officers in the
army are classified as follows: Quar-
termaster's department, l.; subsistence
department. medical department,
6: pay department 1: corps OF engin-
GERS. 6; signal corps, 2; chaplain. Il;
military academy, 1; cavalry, 10; field
artillery, 2: coast artillery, 6; infan-
try, IL; Philippine scouts, 3; retired,
S.
There is not West Virginian in the
general offices of the war department
the s,djutant generals department, the
Inspector generals department. the
judge advocates department, the or
dinance department the bureau of in
sular affairs, the army war college or
the special service schools.
Following is the list of West Vir-
ginIa officers in the army:
Quartermaster's department. Capt.
John L. Mines, who entered the mill
tary academy in 1887.
Subsistence department, Major
George w. Ruthers.
Medical Department.
Medical department, Mai. Clyde s.
Ford Capt. Henry +. Pipes. who en-
tered the army in 1908; Capt. Robert
NJ. Cutler. born in West Virginia but
appointed to the army from Pennsyl-
vania in 1904, First Lieutenant Clark
I. wertenbakcr, born in West Nir-
ginla but appointed to the army from
Ohio in 1908, First Lieutenant James
w Hart and First Lieutenant Charles
L. Baker, both appointed to the army
in 1906.
Pay department, Captain Melville
S Jarvis, who entered the military
academy in 1887 and was made cap
tain in 1900.
Corps of engineers, Mai. William e.
CraighiII, who entered the military
academy in 1881: Mai. Mason NJ. Pat
rick. who entered the military acad-
envy in 1892; Maj. Jay ]. Morrow.
who entered the military academy I'M
1887; Mai. Edwin r. Stuart who en-
tered the military academy in 1882;
Maj. Edward e Schultz, who entered
the military academy in 1891: and
second Lieutenant John w. N. Schultz
WHO entered the military academy I'M
1904
Signal corps, Capt. Benson B. Black
who entered the army as a second
lieutenant of artillery In 1898. dur
ing the war with Spain, Second Lieu
tenant William r. Standiford, who
served as captain of volunteers in
the second West Virginia Infantry
during the war with Spain and was
appointed lieutenant in the army
in 1901.
Chaplain. Maj. Joseph II. suther-
land. who entered the army during
the war with Spain. in 1898.
Instructor in drawing at U. S. Mil
itary Academy, First Lieutenant Hen
ry NJ. Nelly.
Cavalry Officers.
First cavalry. Capt. Julien E. eau
second w Va. Infantry during the
war with Spain and was appointed
a first lieutenant of cavalry in 1901,
second Lieutenant Briscoe n. Butler,
who entered the military academy in
1905.
Third cavalry. Capt. Julius T. Con-
rad. who was born in West Virginia,
but appointed to the military acad-
envy from the District of Columbia in
1887: FIRST Lieutenant George B. Com
ley, born in Texas. but appointed at
large to the military academy from
West Virginia in 1896.
Sixth cavalry, Captain Delptey T..
f. casteel. who served in the war with
spain as coloneT OF the Second West
Virginia Infantry md was appointed
a flrst lieutenant in 1901, Second
Lieutenant James S, Jones, who ives