The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-30
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 B. CLARK,

low names to be used, that the people
of the United States will read of the
doings Of soldiers whose names Will
take readers back to the Civil war
days.
In the American army today are
Grant, Lee, Sheridan, Longstreet,
Il Miles, a Wheeler, Macomb,
Henry, Stanley, Sumner, and
Christian who is grandson of Gen.
Stonewall Jackson.
When Theodore Roosevelt was pres-
dent of the United States he appointed
Grant. Lee and n Sheridan as his
aides. The Grant was Ulysses S.
Grant III, grandson of the general
the Lee was Fitzhugh Lee, a son of the
Confederate general of the same name
and grand nephew of Robert e. Lee;
the Sheridan was Philip III. 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.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
died not long ago in Kentucky, has
son of the same name serving in the
army. General Buckner and General
Grant We're 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 trip from the South to Mount
McGregor to see his early comrade and
later antagonist. The meeting was a
most affectionate one.
Young Fitzhugh Lee is an officer of
cavalry. In the Roosevelt administra-
lion 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 hundred miles within the
limit of three days, as a test, Roose-
welt made the ride himself in one day,
OF course changing horses. He took
with him on that ride young>Lee. The
two covered 103 miles, virtually
straight away and returned.
Maj. Douglas Macarthur of the En-
gineer corps, who graduated number
one in his West Point dass about ten
years ago, is son of Lieutenant Gen
eral Macarthur, who Mt the time of his
retirement frsrnA the service was the
ranking oiiicerSon the active list of the
United States army. General MacAr-
thur died not long ago.
It-was young Major Macarthur who
acted as censor In thegwar 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. is major in the scrv-
ice at the present time. He was sent
as an observer to the front in the Bal
kan wars of few years ago, and had
an interesting and instructive expert
ence.
Adna r. Chaffee is 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 commandment Of cadets at
West Point but 1t is believed that he
with all the others named soon will
be ordered TO go Somewhere" henry
is q son of Gen. Guy V. Henry, tbs 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 n detachment of cavalry
which was surrounded by Indians.
There are scores of other men now
in the service whose fathers fought on
ono side or 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 right
under the law to appoint each year to |
the United States Military academy at |
West Point Is young men. The presl- |
dent, in order not to show favoriti9m,
orders n competitive examination to |
be held for the Is cadetships. AS COM
petitors he names the sons of army Off |
GERS. Every year there are from 100 |
to 200 sons of the service ready TO |
take the examination.
The rivalry is sharp, and it is known
that virtually every young man who
applies does such creditable work on
his examination that If the trial were
each one of them
would get high enough mark to quail |
fly him for admission to the academy.
AS it is, however, only 10 can enter, |
and the examiners see to it thae the |
10 who pass highest get the coveted |
positions.
The president also has the right to |
appoint each year a certain number of |
boys to the Naval academy at An. |
napolis. What is true Of the land aerv-
Ice is true also of the sea service, for
the sons of officers who have sailed |
the seas for many years are ready and |
anxious to follow in the footsteps of |
Tho 80 th a,e who frnd tbo ono ID. ~. daCly