Evening star., 1948-01-25
Maj. Gen. Rhodes, 81,
First Of Rank 10 Cross
Lines in 1918, Dies

Maj. Gen. Charles Dudley Rhodes
81, U. S. A.. retired, the first general
officer to go through the German
lines after the 1918 armistice, died
yesterday at his home in the West
chester Apartments. He had been
i'll for two years.
Gen. Rhodes 44-year military ca
reer had included fighting Sioux In
dians and, later, Moro pirates in the
Philippines. He was retired in Feb
ruary, 1929.
Gen. Rhodes was born in Della
ware, Ohio, and came to Washing
ton in 1875. He attended public
schools here and later entered Co.
lumbar University, now George
Washington. He was one of the
early members of the Capital BIZ
cycle Club from 1879 to 1885 and
was active in football and baseball
in Washington. He had been a
member of the Waverlys, an anna
teur ball club here in the eighties.
Later he served as whip" in the
Washington Riding and Hunt Club
Taught at Ohio Wesleyan.
After graduating as an honor
student from West Point in 1889,
Gen. Rhodes was assigned to the
cavalry and served in the Pine
Ridge campaign against the Sioux
Indians. For two years after 1893
he was professor of military science
and tactics at Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. He was aide-de-camp to
the inspector general of the Army
during the Santiago campaign OF
the Spanish American War and ad-
jutant general of brigade in the
second division of the 5th Army
Corps in 1898. He fought in the
Boxer rebellion in China and in the
Philippine insurrection.
In the China Relief Expedition in
1900 Gen. Rhodes was made adult
ant general of the first brigade and
adjutant general of the combined
Anglo-American group.
He received the Distinguished
Service Cross for heroism in action
in leading an attack against the
Moros and was commended for. kill
ing Moro outlaw in 1910.
Was in St. MihieI Offensive.
At the outbreak of World War I
he was promoted to brigadier gen.
eral, commanding the 18TH Field
Artillery brigade. He took part in
the Aisne-M -Marne, st. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offensives. In 1918
he was made major general and
placed in command of the AID and
34th Divisions in France.
While serving as chief OF the
American section of the Permanent
Interallied Armistice Commission
in Belgium, he occupied Field Mar
shal Won Hindenberg's villa during
the conferences on carrying out
armistice agreements. In this con-
nection he was successful in re-
patriating all American prisoners
of war from Germany before any
other country repatriated it's prison.
erS.
From 1899 to 1900 Gen. Rhodes
was editor of the Journal of the
United States Cavalry Association
and was associate editor of Upton S
Military Police of the United States.
He lectured before the Army War
College, National Guard Associa-
ton in Pennsylvania and California,
and Virginia Military Institute. He
was a trustee of the Association
of Graduates of the Military Acad-
emy and was member of the
Army and Navy Club, Military Or
der of the Dragon, Military Order
of the World War, Army and Navy
Union, the Shrine. and was for
mer president of the Society OF the
Army of Santiago de Cuba.
Gen. Rhodes was also author Of
Robert e. Lee-The West Pointer"
and THE Cavalry"
He held the Distinguished Service
Medal and the Distinguished Serv-
ice Star and was made a Knight
Commander of the Bath. Com
mander of the Belgian Order of the
Crown and a Commander of the
French Legion of Honor. He had
also received numerous commenda-
tions when he was commandant of
the mounted service school from
1914 to 1917.
A nephew is his closest survivor.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced