Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-05

got the people they wanted, and no m
ternational complications ensued The
march through the desert, OFTEN Wlthou.
water or food; the severe and nerce
fighting-all of these have been described
They are summed up in the words py
which the congressional medal OF honor
afterward was awarded to the young sur
geOn:
For distinguished conduct in the cam
paign against Apache Indians In ISso'
while serving as a medical and me
officer of Capt Lawton's expedition
General orders of his superiors also
commended him for gallant and haz-
ardous service courage and energy IN
the campaign, and Gen. Miles took occa-
sion to write a special commentator, IN
which he remarked that the military
qualities displayed by this fighting medico
showed that he was fit material for
field officer of the line. Gen. Miles is
person not given to loose language
Again the surgeon went into the field
in Arizona against hostile Indians TINS
time from February, 1887, to July, 1889
and again proved his worth.
His lot in the years Immediately sue
ceeding was that of the usual army sur
geon, serving at various posts, but al
WAYS with a longing to get into the line.
In September, 1895 he came to Washing
ton and presently was detailed as an
assistant to the attending surgeon III
Washington at the White House uhder
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley ne
served there until the breaking out Oh
the Spanish-American war.
Here he and Theodore Roosevelt. assist.
ant secretary of the navy in the Mckin-
ley administration. became fast friends.
companions in famous walks, opponents
in single stick exercises
These are the dates of Gen. Wood s va
rious commissions since: Colonel ISL.
United States Volunteer Cavalry. May ;,
1895; brigadier general United states vol
unteers July 3. 1898: major general
United States Volunteers, December Z,
1898; brigadier general United States Vol
unteers ton the reorganization AFTER the
war;, April IS, 1899; major general United
State Volunteers. December ), 1899; brig
adler general United States Army the
regular arm. February :, 1901: major
general United States Army, August ),
1903.
He commanded the I'd Brigade of the
cavalry division at the battles of Las
Guasimas and San Juan, in Cuba, and.
on the occupation of Santiago. was placed
in command of that city and later became
civil governor of the province. From De-
cember, 1899. to May 20. 1902. he was
military governor of Cuba, turning the
island over on the latter date to Senior
Thomas Estrada Palma, the first presi-
dent.
The world knows how at Santiago he
turned at once. as the necessity arose.
from offensive military operations to civil
problems and made Santiago a sanitary
and healthful city. 1t knows how he ex-
tended this work through Cuba during
his service as governor. How the doctor
in him must have delighted in the mill
tary power he possessed to do things as
they should be done.
Gen. Wood was in Washington settling
Cuban matters to March, 1903, when he
was sent to command the Department of
Mindanao in the Philippines and to act
as civil governor of the Moro province.
He had three lively years there teaching
the Moro to be good, the Moro proving
more than a little refractory at times.
Then came two years In command of the
Philippine division, after which the gen.
eral took a long leave and went to Eu-
rope to witness the French and German
maneuvers of 1905 There his friend the
kaiser showed him particular honors, and
everywhere he was recognized as one OF
the leading professional military men of
the world.
Parenthetically it might be remarked
that the kaiser invited Gen. Wood to be
his guest at the German maneuvers this
autumn, but the invitation had to be de-
clined, owing to the press of duties i'm
cident to the incoming of new national
administration in this country.
Following the maneuvers of 1908 Gen.
Wood attended as representative of the
United States the International Congress
of the War of Independence and Its
Epoch at SargOssa, Spain, and then re-
turned to command the Department Of the
East at Governors Island, New York,
until his appointment three years ago
as chief of staff. Before assuming the
duties Of the latter position, however, he
went to Argentina as special ambassa-
dor under the Department of State, to
represent this nation; at the celebration
of the centennial of Argentine independ-
ence.
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