Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-10-26

Point for at least a year or two to-
gether, although of course they were
not all classmates These men know
one another's ways from boyhood up,
and it is altogether probable that the
war department itself knows their
ways, or otherwise it would not have
chosen them for high command.
Take the National Guard encamp-
ments, for instance. Maj. Gen. Clar-
ence r. Edwards, who until recently
was in command at Camp Greene,
N. c., and Maj Gen. G. G.. Morton.
commanding at Camp Mcclellan, Ala.
were in the class of 1888 and
were close friends. OF the MAJ
jor1 generals commanding National
Guard regiments, Edwards Morton.
Morrison, Herman, Greble, Treat, Sage.
Hodges and Strong saw service at the
school on the Hudson at the same
time
So far as the National army is con-
cerned, Maj. Gems. H. r. Hodges,
Chase w. Kennedy, Adelbert Cronk-
hite, FL. G. Hale, ]. t. Dickman, S. D.
Sturgis and H. T. Allen were fellow
cadets in the early '60s. There are no
major generals and only a few briga-
der generals in any of the armies of
the United States today who need to
be introduced to one another when
they meet.
All Sections Represented.
All sections of the country are rep
resented in the high ranks of the Unit
ed States army, the North. the South,
the East, the West and the middle
country. The Maine man commands in
one camp, the Alabama man in anoth-
er, and far Westerner in yet another.
They speak of the division Of National
Guard troops which is composed of
units from 26 different states as
National regiment because it is so
representative of different sections.
The commanding generals represent In
a high sense and in literal sense this
union Of states.
With a good many Of these officers
the writer of this article was at school
for a shorter or longer time, the
period depending upon the year in
which these officers graduated. Ma
.jor Generals Edwards, Morton, Strong,
Kennedy, Hale, Dickman and Sturgis
knew and still know well.
A letter reached me only a short
time ago from Gen. G. Hale, now
commanding Camp Taylor, Kentucky.
This letter was written in far-off China
and it was mailed within a few hours
apparently of the time that Harry
that is his first handicapped that he
had been made a brigadier. general.
Mai. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, who is
in command of the Eighty-seventh di-
vision of the National army at Camp
Pike, Arkansas, is a son of the late
General Sturgis, who was a noted cav
airy officer in the Union army during
the war between the states. The elder
Sturgis after the Civil war was for
some slime colonel Of the famous
Seventh cavalry. A brother Of the ma
ior general now commanding at Camp
Pike was killed with Custer on that
awful day, June 25, 1875, when the
swarming Sioux surrounded that de-
voted squadron of the Seventh caval-
nv and literally wiped it from exist
ence.
General Morse's Active Life.
In speaking Of officers of general
rank there is one brigadier general of
whom something more than word
should be spoken. He is Benjamin G.
Morse. commanding the One Hundred
Sfxty-ninth infantry brigade Of the Ma
tional army at Camp Custer. Mich,
which is under the command OF Maj.
Gen. Joseph T. Dickman.
Brigadier General Morse is gradu-
ate of the Military academy of the
class of 1884. He has had soldier
life of virtually unbroken field service.
He has done straight soldering from
| the day when, as a stripping second
lieutenant, he joined his regiment in
the fall of 1884. He hardly knows what
an order to anything except active
field service looks like. He is better
acquainted with the tented field than
with the streets of the city Of Wash
ington, or of those Of any other head
quarters city. The same things might
be written of several other officers who
recently have been advanced to high
command.
A great deal has been written about
Mai. Gen. Joseph e. Kuhn, now in
command Of the Seventy-ninth divi-
sion at Camp Meade, Maryland. Gen.
eral Kuhn for a long time was sta
toned in Berlin as our military at
tache. 1t is an open secret that the
Germans did not treat him any too
well. The habit of suspicion of every
thing American seemed to be fixed up
on them. When General Kuhn, then
colonel, returned to America he was
made chief of the war college, a posi-
ton which he filed admirably.
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cheese One cold frosty night, the,