Evening star., 1944-01-16
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will p. Kennedy.

There is only one man in all Amerl-
can history who had the unique dis
tinction of being both rear admiral
and a major general-Samuel Pow
hatan Carter august s, l8l9-May 26,
189l, who is buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery, Washington, D. C. This is
shown by a search of the official
records of the Army, the records of
officers in the Bureau of Navigation,
and by House Report in the Forty
eighth Congress.
on Horseback" His grand niece, Miss
Carrie E. Hunter, named after his
wife, now is doing research work in
the Library of Congress, assigned to
the State law index. She first came
to the library in 1918 and while en-
ployed there studied law and later
practiced it with her father in the
rear admiral-major generals birth
place, Elizabethton, Tenn. She returned
to the library in 1886. His great-grand-
nephew, 1t. Comdr. Dayton A. Seller, has
been in foreign service and is now en-
gagged on postgraduate work in aeriel
engineering at the California Institute
of Technology at Pasadena, Calf
Samuel Powhatan Carter was de-
scended from a long line of Virginia
pioneers. He was educated at Princeton,
and appointed a midshipman in the
Navy in 1910, assigned to serve with
the Pacific squadron He was graduated
from the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
in 1876. On board the Ohio he wit
messed the fall of Veracruz. He sub
sequently saw service at the Naval OBJ
servatory and in the Mediterranean
squadron and as professor of mathe-
matics at the Naval Academy While
with the East India squadron. he par
ticipated in the attack on the Barrier
Forts, Canton River, China.
At the request of Andrew johnson he
was detailed from the Navy to special
duty at the War Department" then
was sent to East Tennessee to organize
and drill Union volunteers. He or
ganized one full regiment and part of
another, and in May, 1862 was
brigadier general of the volunteer
Army. He commanded the first i'm
portant cavalry raid by the Federalists,
bringing relief to Rosecrans, hard pressed
at Murfreesboro. At the Battle of
Kingston, March, 1865, he commanded
the left wing of the Union Army.
While serving in the Army. Carter
was regularly promoted to commander
and on his return to the Navy in 1866
was placed in command of the
Monocacy in the Asiatic Squadron. In
1873 he was commandant of midship-
men at Annapolis. For two years he
saw active service as commander of
the Alaska on the European station.
From the maxinls OF the of the great
Chinese warrior Loutao, who flourished
about ll50 BE-, Germanys Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg, one of the COM
manding figures in the First World War,
learned his strategy and tactics-and
frankly admitted that they did not
originate in his own brain. Those prin-
ciples of warfare, strategy and tactics
have been followed by the modern de-
velcpment of the old Prussian military
machine during the present global war.
The same military maxims-the carry
ing into effect of which twice over
whelmed the Russians and played an
important part in the resistance OF the
German armies lin France and Belgium
have not been an exclusive, secret
possession Of the Prussian war lords.
They were brought to light by French
man, and from France found their way
to the war councils of Frederick the
Great and his successors.
Long before our new Nation pro-
claimed its Declaration of independence
and set up its unique Government under
the Constitution, there labored in China
French missionary, Jesuit priest.
Father de Guignes He mastered the
dinacult language of the Chinese and in
1767 was permitted to study and trans
late into French the five Holy War
Books OF the Chinese. Those books con-
tanned the ideas of the great Chinese
warriors who lived between 1900 and 500
BIC. As late as AID. 1900. after the