Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-02

years later, Gen. Marshall followed in
his older brothers footsteps, although he
was not to return to civil life, and
matriculated with the class of '01. In
his undergraduate days he was an excel
lent student and active in school affairs.
He played tackle on the football team
and as a junior was vice chairman OF
the final ball Fraternities have since
been abolished, but he was a member OF
Kappa Alpha. He was popular among
his classmates and took good naturedly
a good deal of kidding about his passion
for things military. For his last three
years, he held the highest military rank
in the cadet corps successfully first
corporal, first sergeant, and his final
year, first captain. the same rank Gen.
Craig had held at West Point only few
years before. Upon graduation, he was
appointed commandment of cadets at the
Danville Military Institute. While there,
he married Lily Carter Coles, in Lexing-
ton, and on his wedding night received
his commission as second lieutenant in
the United States Army. He Joined the
3Oth Infantry in the Philippines in May,
1902.
From that time on his service record
is varied and includes assignments Of
almost every kind. He returned with his
regiment for station in Oklahoma after
10 months in the Philippines and in the
summer of 1906 was ordered to the In
fantry-Cavalry School at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans. The competition was of
the keenest, but he finished the years
course No. in a class of more than so,
the same rank won by Gen. Craig, when
he completed the course few years
before. The following year he attended
the Army Staff College at the same
post and upon graduation was assigned
as instructor in the course he had just
completed. Although still a first lieu
tenant. he won the respect of his stu
dents, most Of them captains and majors
Next came tour of duty as Inspector
instructor with the Massachusetts Ma
tional Guard, followed by tour with
the 4th Infantry in Arkansas and along
the Texas border until the summer of
1913.
He Went to France.
Another tour of foreign duty took him
to the Philippines, but when the United
States entered the World War in April,
1917 he was aide de camp to Gen. J.
Franklin Bell at the headquarters of the
Western Department in San Francisco.
Gen. Bell was Immediately transferred
to command of the Eastern Department
with headquarters at Governors Island,
N. Y, and took his aide with him.
There he escorted Gen. Pershing to the
ship that was to take him to France as
commander of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces. He waved farewell from
the dock to the little group of officers
accompanying Gen. Pershing in that
first trip to France, but when the next
left he was aboard. He landed the
same month and was assigned to the
LIST Division as chief of staff in charge
OF operations. For more than year
he held that post, while the division
was initiated into trench warfare in
the relatively quiet sectors of Sommer-
viller and Ansauville in Lorraine and
near Montdidier, where Cantigny and
the surrounding heights were taken in
May, 1918. He was transferred to the
staff at general headquarters of the
A. E. F. for short period and then to
the 1st Army. of which he became chief
of staff in October, 1918, participating
in the st. Mihiel and Meuse -Argonne
offensives in the final weeks of the war.
Although Gen. Marshall had come in
contact with Gen. Pershing once in the
Philippines and again when the van
guard of the A. E. F. sailed for France,
1t was their third meeting that counted.
One morning not long after the LIST Dr.
vision had taken over trench sector.
Gen. Pershing arrived with several
members Of his staff to witness train