Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-11
MANY FAMOUS SOLDIERS
HAVEPASSED TOBEY0ND
MANY OF THEM WERE WELL
KNOWN IN THE NORTH.
WEST.
New York Evening Post Publishes In.
teresting Accounts of Lives Of Men
Well Known Here.

The following notice of the pass
ing away of distinguished military
men, as published by the New York
Evening Post, will be of interest in
the northwest:
Lieut-C James M. Burns, retired,
a veteran of the civil, Indian and
Spanish-American wars, and also a
holder of medal of honor, died at
Lebanon, l., on Monday night from
pneumonia. He was born in Ohio on
August 8. 1915, and enlisted in the
First West Virginia volunteer infan-
try on October 3, 1861, serving in that
regiment and also in the Second West
Virginia volunteer infantry until the
close of the war. While serving as
sergeant in the First West Virginia
and at the battle of Newmarket, Va,
on May IA, 1864, Lieut.. Col. Burns vol
UNFAIRLY assisted wounded comrade
from the field, thereby saving the man
from capture by the enemy. He was
under a heavy fire of musketry and
for his gallantry he was given a med
al of honor. He was appointed Sec
ond lieutenant in the Seventeenth in
fantry on September Fl, 1867, was pro-
noted to first lieutenant in 1874 and
captain in 1885, He had served in the
south, in Kansas, Texas, Indian Ter
ritory, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Wash
ingtOn, and also in Cuba, with his
regiment. He was transferred to the
Eleventh infantry on January Il,
1899, and was retired for disability
rank of major. He was received as
commandant of cadets at the West Vir-
ginia university in 1907, and last year
congress gave him the rank of lieu
tenant-cOlOnel.
At the Dawson hospital in Manila,
on September II, occurred the death
of Adam Neder, for the past nine years
an employe of the quartermaster's de-
partment in the Philippines, and with
a record as a soldier in the army
rarely equalled, he having been award
ed a congressional medal of honor for
conspicuos bravery in the Indian cam
paigns. He was born in Bavaria in
1865, but came to the United States
when young man. He first entered
the army as a carpenter in troop A,
Seventh cavalry, and was successfully
promoted until he reached the grade
of sergeant. He was wounded in the
right shoulder in the engagement
against the Big Foot band of Sioux at
Wounded Knee Creek, S. D., on De-
cember 20, 1890, and for his gallant
ry in that fight was awarded a medal
of honor. He was then a corporal.
Sergeant Neder carried a wounded
officer off the battlefield under
heavy fire and when he himself was
severely wounded. The officer was
First Lieut.. Ernest A. Darlington, Sew
enth cavalry, now inspector general of
the army with the rang of brigadier- !
geenral. Lieut.. Darlington was shot
through the right elbow. Capt Geo. =
D. Wallace, troop X, and twenty-one
enlisted men, including one hospital
steward, were killed in that fight. !
also wears a medal of hon !,
or for his gallantry in that action. ;
In 1893 Neder entered the Fifth artil-
lery, and in 1896 reenlisted in Com. !;
pany E, First infantry, with which !,
command he was sent to Cuba at the
beginning of the Spanish war, parti.
cipating in the battles at Ell Caney
and San Juan Hill, and in the Santa
go fight. In 1899 he was discharged /,
and entered the service of the quar-.
department as wagon
master, and in 1900 was sent to China