Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-27
SONS Of FAMOUS
WARRIORS ARE In
]. WORLDS CONFLICT
Many Noted American Names of
Civil War Days Now on
U. S. Army Roll
Z at the Front.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

Observation-Disclosures American troops
get into the actual fighting in France
It Is probable, If the censor shall al
low names to be used, that the people
Of the United States will read of the
doings 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,
a Miles, a Wheeler, d Macomb, q
Henry, a Stanley, q Sumner, and a
Stonewall Jackson.
When Theodore Roosevelt a presi-
dent of the United States he appointed
a Grant, a Lee and a Sheridan rs his
aides. The Grant was Ulysses S.
Grant III, a grandson of the general;
the Lee was Fitzhugh Lee, q son of the
Confederate general of the same name
and q grand nephew of Robert 10. Lee;
the Sheridan was Philip HI. 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
tary Academy. He did appoint the
young man, and today the appointee is
an officer in the American army.
J Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
died not long ago in Kentucky, has q
S0n 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 q trip from the South to Mount
iMcGregor to see his early-comrade and
later antagonist. The meeting was q
most a~ffectionate one.
Young Fitzhugh Lee is an officer of
cavalry. In the Roosevelt administra-
ition 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-
.velt 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.
1Coi no,,r10, Mao A ~%j,,,,- 80 4I@ IN,
ginesr corps, who graduated number
one In his West Point class about ten
gears ago, is a son of Lieutenant Cen
cral 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 MaeAr-
thur died not long ago.
1t was young Major Macarthur who
acted as censor in the wal department
for about three months. That work
has been transferred to another, and
now Major Macarthur is awaiting. or
ders to co. Somewhere"
y Sherman Miles, the son Of Gen. Nell
son A. Miles, Is a major in the sery-
fee 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 experi-
ence.
Adna r. Chaffee 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 v. Henry, just at
present Is commandant of cadets at
West Point, but it Is believed that he
with all the others named 0 0 will
be ordered to go Somewhere" Henry
is q son OF Gen. Guy v. Henry, the IA
nous cavalry leader In the Civil war.
and who later won additional fame
az an Indian tighter 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 a detachment OF cavalry
which was surrounded by Indians.
There are scores Of other men now
In the service whose fathers fought on
one side n the other in the war be-
tween the states. Love for military
life seems to be hereditary. The presi-
dent Of the United States has a right
under the law TO appoint each year to
the United States Military academy at
West Point 1b young men. The presi-
dent, "a order not to show fayoritism,
orders 4 competitive examination to
~ held for the 10 c%adetships. As com
ssspetitOrs he names the sons of army Off
cena1 Every year there are from 10C
1900 sons OF the service ready to
sJtaket the e~xamination.
IA rtyalry Is sharp,and L Is known
virtually every young man who
TT does such creditable work or
q Denomination that Il the trial were
01(1il9S6fmpettttye each one of then
|; 31jI15a1 ct ! high enough mark 90 quail
edtnlssion "a the academy
hoWever.sonlysl6 can enter
4 4 EhoaaEAminers seestO it that thu
whe ipeasss highest get the coveted
resident aIso has tie right L
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