Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-26
GENERAL D0OO
RETIRES FROM
OFFICIAL LIFE
GALLANT COMMANDER OF REGIMENT
IN MEXICO REACHES AGE LIMIT
WHILE in MEXICO.
PROMOTED FROM COLONEL TO COM
MAND BRIGADE AFTER DASH AND
AND CLASH WITH THE BANDITS

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official life of gallant old warrior cx-
pired today. when, by reason of the fact
that this i the Sixty-fourth anniversary
Of his birth, Brigadier General George A.
Dodd. the commander of the cavalry br-
gade Of the punitive expedition into Mex
leo last Spring, was retired from active
service. In the ordinary routine of mill
atarv affairs Gen. Dodd would have been
retired with the rank Of colonel Only
few weeks ago. by order of the President,
the higher rank of brlgadier general was
conferred upon him in recognition cf his
distinguished services IN Mexico, particu-
larlv his cavalry dash at Guerrero last
March. when hefwcnt into successful
action against a superior force oi bandits
after a ride of 55 miles in IL hours.
I'm the forty years of his service IN the
regular, Dare Devil Dodd a. he l. fam
iliarly known. has seen a much hard fight
inc a. any officer of the service. lie i a
native of Pennsylvania and was appointed
To the Military Academy from that State.
Immediately after his graduation IN 1876
he was assigned a a second lieutenant 20
the famous Third Cavalry, the command
that has seen more hard service on the
border in the past four years than any
regiment in the army.
At West Point his classmates included
Hugh l.. Scott, now a or-gencral and
Chief Of the General Staff, Brig. Gen
Ernest A. Darlington, the Inspector Gen
3 al
now commanding the Twelfth Cavalry, the
attack upon which at Columbus. n. NJ.
was the immediate cause of the expedition
being sent into Mexico last Spring.
The first ten years Of Gen. Dodd's ser
vice we're ten years of nsverccaslng act-
witty for the most part IN actions against
the hostile Indians Of the far West. lie
served through the Powder River Expcd
ton of 1877. helped TO keep the Indians
Of the Red Cloud Agency quiet in 1873.
won the commendation of his supcriors
for gallant service in the Ute expedition
Of 1879. was IN command Of a famous
company Of scouts IN the Arizona out
breaks of 1883. and helped suppress In
dian disturbances in what l. now the State
Of Oklahoma in November, 1893.
Gen. Dodd was a captain IN the Fourth
Cavalry in the Spanish War. lie was IN
the battle Of San Juan and participated
in the siege and operations against San
tiago. He was commended for gallaniry
in the face Of the enemy in the Santiago
campaign. When he returned to the
United States in the latter part of 1898
he was sent 10 Fort Ethan Allen. VT. for
q tour Of duty, which lasted bat q few
weeks. when he was ordered TO the Philip
pines. where he participated in the cxpcdI-
tion sent into northern Luzon under Mai,
Gen Young. In this expedition he took
part in twelve battles. and again won the
commendation Of hi -uperor- for gal
liant conduct IN action al San Nicholas, To-
l.. and subsequently by Gen. Wheaton for
conspicuous gallantry In action ~ Ahgan-
gan, r. !.
Gen Dodd returned TO the United States
from the Philippines in 1901 and again
was sent for tour Of duty,st Eort Ethan
Allen. He was ordered West. IN 1903, TO
command Fort Assiniboine. Mont On
July 2s. 1904. he was made lieutenant col
onel and assigned as second in command
Of the Tenth Cavalry, one Of the two
negro mounted commands Of the re-
gular army. He was made a colonel In
April. 1905. and put in command Of the
Twelfth Cavalry.
lie was@commanding the Second Cavalry
Brigade on the border at the time Of the
. Columbus raid When the president order
ed Cen Funston to send punitive expedi-
tion into Mexico he promptly gave the com
msnd Of the forces 10 Dodd, for he knew,
- his brother officers expressed II at the
time, ''that old Dodd was the man who
could successfully cope with the Mexi-
can bandits if anybody could