Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1917-11-16
SONS OF FAMOUS
WARRIORS ARE IN
WORLDS CONFLICT
Many Noted American Names Of
Civil War Days Now on
U. S. Army Roll
al the Front.
BY EDWARD .. CLARK.

Washington.-when American troops
get into the actual lighting In France
II II probable. II the censor shall nj.
low names 10 be used, that the people
Of the United States will read OF the
doings Of soldiers whose names Will
take readers back 10 the Civil war
days.
In the American army today are n
Grant, n Lee, n Sheridan, n Longstreet,
q Miles, n Wheeler, n Macomb, a
Henry, a Stanley. n Sumner, and a
Christian who Is a grandson Of Gen.
stoncwnll Jackson.
When Theodore Roosevelt was presi-
dent Of the United Stntes he appointed
a Grant, n Leo and a Sheridan MS 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 q grand nephew OF Robert u. Leei
the Sheridan wns Philip II. Sheridan,
son Of the famous Union cavalry
leader.
When he was In Office as president,
Colonel Roosevelt visited Georgia,
which vas 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.
tary Academy. He did appoint the
young man, and today the appolntee Is
an officer In the American army.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
died not long ago In Kentucky has n
son OF the same name serving IN the
army. General Buckner and General
Grant were students nt West Point
together I'm the fortles, and they met
again In battle In the Civil war. When
Grant was dying General Buckner
made n trip from the South TO Mount
McGregor to see his early comrnde and
later antagonist. The meeting was a
most affectionnte one.
Young Fitzhugh Lee IL an officer OF
cavalry. In the Roosevelt admlnlstrn-
ton one Of Lees duties as nm aide
was 10 ride across country almost daily
with the president. When the order
was issued that nrmy officers In or
der to prove their physical endurance
should ride a hundred miles within the
limit OF three days, as q test, Roose-
welt made the ride himself In n day,
OF course changing horses, He took
with him on that ride young Lee. The
tive covered 1903 miles, virtually
straight away and returned.
Maj. Douglas Macarthur Of the En-.
glneer corps, who graduated number
one I'm his West Point class about ten
years ago. Is n son Of Lieutenant Cen
ernl Macarthur, who at the time Of his
retirement from the service was the
ranking officer on the active list OF the
United States army. General MacAr-
thur died not long ago.
II was young Major Macarthur who
acted as censor In the war department
for about three months. That work
has been transferred 10 another, and
now Major Macarthur Is awaiting Or
ders to go somewhere"
Sherman Miles, the son OF Gen. Mel
son A. Miles. Is n major IN the serv-
ice nj the present time. He WINS sent
ms nm observer To the front In the Bill
kan wars Of n few years ago, and had
an interesting and instructive expert.
cncc.
ADM Il. Chaffee Is n captain IN the
American army. lie Il the son OF the
general OF the same name who led
the American troops IN their advance
on Picking IN 1900.
Lieut.. Col, Guy V. Henry, Just nj
present Is commandment Of cadets ut