Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-15
SONS OF FAMOUS
WARRIORS ARE IN
WORLDS CONFLICT
Many Noted American Names Of
Civil War Days Now on
U. S. Army Roll
at the Front.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

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It is probable, II the censor shall al
low names to be used, that the people
OF the United States will read of the
dOlngs Of soldiers whose names viii
take readers back to the Civil war
days.
In the American army today are a
Grant, a Lee, a Sheridan, a Longstreet,
q Miles, a Wheeler, a. Macomb, a
Henry, a Stanley, a Sumner, and a
Christian who Is q grandson of Gen.
Stonewall Jackson.
When Theodore Roosevelt was presl-
dent Of the United States he appointed
a Grant, a Lee and a Sheridan as his
aides. The Grant was Ulysses S.
Grant III, a grandson of the general;
the Lee was Fitzhugh Lee, a son of the
Confederate general Of the same name
and a grand nephew of Robert r. Lee;
the Sheridan was Philip Fl. Sheridan,
son Of the famous Union cavalry
leader.
When he was In office as president,
Colonel Roosevelt visited Georgia,
which was his mothers birthplace.
There he met the widow of Stonewall
jackson, and he told her that it was
his intention to appoint her grandson,
Thomas jackson Christian, to the Mill
ftary Academy. He did appoint the
young man, and today the appointee is
an officer in the American army.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
died not long ago In Kentucky, has a
son Of the same name serving in the
army. General Buckner and General
Grant were students at West Point
together In the forties, and they met
again in battle In the Civil war. When
Grant was dying General Buckner
made a trip from the South to Mount
McGregor to see his early comrade and
later antagonist. The meeting was a
most affectlonate one.
Young Fitzhugh Lee Is an officer Of
cavalry. In the Roosevelt administra-
ton one of Lees duties as an aide
was to ride across country almost daily
with the president. When the order
was issued that army officers in or
der to prove their physical endurance
should ride a hundred miles within the
limit of three days, as a test, Roose-
lvat made the ride himself In one day.
OF course changing horses. He took
with him on that ride young Lee. The
two covered 1O3 miles, virtually
straight away and returned.
Maj. Douglas Macarthur Of the En-
gineer corps, who graduated number
one In his West Point class about ten
years ago, is a son of Lieutenant Gen
eral Macarthur, who at the time of his
retirement from the service vas the
ranking officer on the active list Of the
United States army. General MacAr-
thur died not long ago..
It was young Major Macarthur who
acted as censo In the wal department
for about three months. That work
has been transferred to another, and
now Major Macarthur is awaiting or
,ders to go Somewhere"
Sherman, MILES, the son Of Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, Ii q major In the serv-
Ice at the present time. He was sent
as an observer to the front in the Bal
kan wars OF a few years ago, and had
an interesting and instructive expert
ence.
Adna r. Chaifee is a captain in the
American army. He is the son OF the
general Of the same name who led
the American troops In their advance
on Picking In 1900.
Lieut.. Col. Guy ". Henry, just at
present Is commandment Of cadets at
1 West Point, but It Is believed that he
with all the others named soon will
be ordered to 50 Somewhere" Henry
is a son Of Gen. Guy v. Henry. the fa-
NOUS cavalry leader IN the Civil war,
and who later won additional fame
as an Indian fighter In the West. 1t
was General Henry who made the
forced ride, with his troopers Of the
Ninth cavalry, Of nearly 100 miles to
the relief Of q detachment of cavalry
which was surrounded by Indians.
There are scores Of other men now
IN the service whose fathers fought on
one side or the other In the wal be-
tween the states. Love for military
life seems to be hereditary. Thepresis
dent of the United States has d right
under the law to appoint each year to
the United States Military academy ut
West Point l5 young men. The presi-
deAf IA orderasnof b show favoritism.
crdsrs 4 competitive examination to
~ held Tor the 10 cadetships. AS COM
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