Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-10-26

CthSSIndIeS dL tie OulAeu OtdtcS MIL
itary academy. and virtually all Of
the major generals served at West
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 1t is altogether probable that the
war department itself knows their
ways, or otherwise II would not have
chosen them for high command.
Take the National Guard encamp-
ments, for instance. Maj. Gen. Gar
ence r. Edwards, who until recently
was in command at Camp Greene
N. c., and Maj. Gen. @. @. Morton,
commanding at Camp Mcclellan. Ala,
were in the class of 1883 ana
were close friends. OF the ma
jQr,. generals commanding National
Gnard 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. Mai. Gems. Fl. F. Hodges,
Chase w. Kennedy, Adelbert Cronk-
hite, II. C. Hale. j. T. Dickman, S. d.
Sturgis and II. T. Allen were fellow
cadets in the early COS. There are no
major generals and only 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 20 different states as a
National regiment" because 1t Is so
representative of different sections.
The commanding generals represent in
a high sense and in a 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 a 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.
letter reached me only a short
time ago from Gen. III. G. Hale, now
commanding Camp Taylor Kentucky.
This letter was written in far-off China
and it was mailed within few hours
apparently of the time that Harry
that is his first name-learned that he
had been made hrigadier general.
Maj Gen. Samuel d. Sturgis. who is
in command of the Eighty-seventh d.
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 time colonel Of the famous
Seventh cavalry. A brother of the ma
jor general now commanding at Camp
Pike was killed with Custer on that
awful day, June 81, 1876, when the
swarming Sioux surrounded that de-
voted squadron of the Seventh caval-
ry 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 a word
should be spoken. He is Benjamin G.
Morse commanding the One Hundred
Sixty-ninth infantry brigade of the Ma
tional army at Camp Custer. Mich,
Gen. Joseph T. Dickman.
Brlgadier General Morse is a gradu-
ate of the Military academy of the
class of 1854. He has had soldier
life of virtually unDroken field service.
He has done straight soldering from
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 Seyenty-ninth divi-
sion at Camp Meade, Maryland. Gen.
eral Kuhn for 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
a colonel, returned to America he was
trade chief of the war college. q posi-