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BRIG..GEN. DODD
RfTIRfS FROM
OFFICIAL LIFE
Pursuer of Columbus Raid
ers Leaves Service Be
cause of Age.

Washington, July 26.-The officia
life of a gallant old warrior expired
today, when, by reason OF the fact
that this is the sixty-fourth anniver-
sary of his birth, Brig Gen. George A
Dodd, the commander of the cavalry
brigade of the punitive expedition into
Mexico last spring, was retired from
active service. In the ordinary rou-
tine of military affairs General Dodd
would have been retired with the rank
of colonel. Only few weeks ago
by order of the president, the higher
rank of brigadier-general was confer
red upon him in recognition of his
distinguished services in Mexico, par
ticularly his cavalry dash at Guerrero
last March, when he went into sue
cessful action against a superior force
of bandits after ride of SIS miles in
II hours.
In the 40 years of his service in the
regulars, Daredevil" Dodd, as he is
Familiarity known, has seen as much
hard fighting as any officer of the
service. He is a native of Pennsyl-
vania and was appointed to the mill
tary academy from that state. I'M
mediately after his graduation in
1876 he was assigned as a second
lieutenant to the famous Third cav
airy, 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 in
cluded Hugh l.. Scott, now a major
general and chief of the general staff;
Brighten. Ernest A. Darlington, the
inspector-general of the army, and
Herbert w. Slocum, now commanding
the Twelfth cavalry, the attack upon
which at Columbus, N. NJ, was the
immediate cause of the expedition be-
ing sent into Mexico last spring.
The first 10 years of General Dodd's
service were 10 years of never ceasing
activity for the most part in actions
against the hostile Indians CT the Far
Vest He served through the Powder
river expedition of 1877. helped to
keep the Indians of the Red Cloud
Agency quiet in 1878, won the COM
mendation of his superiors for gallant
service in the Ute expedition of 1879,
was in command of famous company
Of scouts in the Arizona outbreaks of
1888, and helped suppress Indian dis
turbances in what is now the state of
Oklahoma in, November, 1893
General Dodd was captain in the |
Fourth cavalry in the Spanish war.
He was in the battle of San Juan and |
participated in the siege and opera
tions against Santiago He was COM
mended for gallantry 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 to Fort Ethan Allen. Vt.,d
for tour of duty. which lasted but
a few weeks, when he was ordered to
the Philippines. where he participated
in the expedition sent into Northern
Luzon under Major General Young. In
this expedition he took part in IL
battles. and again won the commenda-
ton of his superiors for gallant and
meritorious work. He was recon-
mended by General Young for brevet-
major for gallant conduct in action at
San Nicolas. P. l., and subsequently
by General Wheaton for conspicuous
gallantry in action at Aligangan. P. l.
General Dodd returned to the United
States from the Philippines in 1901
and again was sent for tour of duty
at Fort Ethan Allen. He was or
dered West, in 1908, to command Fort
Assiniboine, Mont. On July 90, 1904.
he was made lieutenant colonel and
assigned as second in command of the
Tenth cavalry, one of the two famous
negro mounted commands Of the reg
ular army. He was made colonel in
April. 1908, and put in command of the
Twelfth cavalry.
Hefwas commanding the Second |
cavalry brigade on the border at the
time Of the Columbus raid. When
President Wilson ordered General
Funston to send punitive expedition
into Mexico he promptly gave the
of the forces to Dodd, for
he knew. as his brother officers ex-
pressed it at the time, "that old Dodd
was the man who could successfully
cope with the Mexican bandits if any
body could"