Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-29

extraordinary service. There were the
men who had dared to follow where
any commander dared lead
Not a Commanding Officer.
But the men who had led the men
whose names are written large in the
history of the country, were not there.
There was not one of the officers who
commanded an army in the civil war in
the parade today. There are but two
alive, and neither of them was able to
get here for the occasion. These two
are Maj. Gen. Granville M. Dodge Of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Maj. Gen.
James H. Wilson of Wilmington, Del
Gen. Dodge commanded the noted 18th
Corps. Gen. Wilson commanded all the
cavalry between the Allegheny noun
tains and the Mississippi river; details
OF his troopers swept down through
Alabama and Mississippi at the close
of the war and captured Jefferson
Davis
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. grand mar
shall of the parade, is one of the four or
five surviving lieutenant generals with
whom the rank expires. He entered the
service as first lieutenant and became
colonel of the 61st New York Volun-
teers. AS a brigade commander he de-
livered at Sunderland Station, Va, the
momentous blow that cut Lees last
railroad connection and forced the sur
render of Petersburg and Richmond.
Lieut. Gen. S. b. NJ. Young, U. S. A..
retired, now governor of the National
Soldiers Home in this city, is the sec
ond ranking lieutenant general, stand
ing next to Gen. Miles, who heads the
list Gen. Young rose from an enlisted
man to be colonel and brevet brigadier
general and then entered the regular
army, being retired in 1904 with the
rank of lieutenant general.
Last Survivor to Be Retired.
Gen. John L. Clem of the regular
army, recently retired, who was spe-
cial aid on the staff of Commander-in-
chief Palmer and detailed to assist
Chief of Staff George A. Hosley in the
formation of the parade, is the last
survivor of the civil war to be retired
from the regular army. He was bap-
tiZed in the fire of battle as a drummer
boy in the sanguinary contest at Shi-
loh. He had many thrilling expert
ences, and, because of his undaunted
valor in the hornets nest at Chicka-
mauga, Gems. Rosecrans and Thomas
bestowed upon him the title Drummer
Boy of Chickamauga," which he wears
to this day. Prior to the battle of
Chickamauga he wore the cognomen
Johnny Shiloh"
Gen. Miles assistant marshal was
Lieut. Col. Chauncey b. Baker of the
regular army, who, with Gen. Glenn and
Lieut.. William Loundes Calhoun of the
navy. had been appointed by Commander
in-Chief David J. Palmer as special aids.
Chief of Staff Hosley, the active marshal,
was assisted by Senior Aid-de-Camp S.
C. Speer of Algona, Iowa. and $50 aids.
With Gen. Miles rode a number of dis
tinguished army officers. acting as his
aids.
Among the officers who served on Gen.
Miles staff as assistant marshals were:
Maj. Gen. Charles +. Humphrey, Brig
Gen. Anson Mills and Maj Gen. Frank
D. Baldwin. Many Of those invited could
not serve on account Of age and dis
tance from Washington.
The honorary escort for Commander
in Chief David ]. Palmer was U. S. Grant
Post, No 327. of Brooklyn, N. Y, under
command of Thomas Murray, which had
H. men in line. Two new richly en-
broidered fiags-one the Stars and Stripes
of the United States, the other the post
emblem. with its motto. Fraternity,
Charity, Loyalty''-were carried at the
head of this organization, which has the
reputation of being the best drilled and
finest appearing organization in the entire
Of the Grand Army.
Grant Post was the guard q honor