Show I IHE NEWimiUAUlElLS I BOMB RECENT CHANCES IN TIIC UNITED STATUS AtlMY sw fare TIIol lees Corn In t0 leant In I tM llllr Ilunkties role Merrill lillii and iphrRer The latlefi Mold luil Hi elevation of Major Ma-jor Oenerol echo u oJ < Held to the recreated 1 recreat-ed rank of Ileiilen t 1 nut Orneral and of t jf j the retirement of 4o Major Uenernl Me i t f Cook left the lrrl dent several high office J i1 of-fice In the arm > at hi dl H > 1 Tin new Majordeneral eiry Merrill eta long town th night to have nn almont certain clume of curlnl the nl tn canny In the rank above that which he hu held for eight ear pail linertl Merrill I one of the few remilnlng bogenral of the wir of the rebel lion KHH Harper Weekly He ssae graduated from West Point only the summer before the war began Ills nl rnmmlMlon wa II H ronl Meulen ant In the Heeond Dragoon and except when he Iou nerved ass general ofllrer le Iu alna been In the cavalry Tho Second Dragoon wsn chinged Into the Second Cavalry when lima army was or J r I f i i cII 11i1I l k i i t < 0 n nuv WIHLIY MIMIHITT Ranl I led In ISO nnd WIy atrrr IlL who wrved with his reglmrnt In the early bailie In Virginia vas promoted 1 to be a Captain Later he accepted n commlMlon In I the volunteer and by ISM when he WAI only twenty neven yearn old he wa n llrlRadler lenrrat 1lcfor the war endeil he vim n Major leneral He did KolUnl and nIle lion service during the war and there were few young men who came out nt the conflict wllh no brilliant n record Wn the army wn reorganised on n hence footing In UCT lleneral Merrill teas made LieutenantColonel of the Ninth Cavalry and ten > ear later he wa promoleil to be Colonel of the fifth Cvlry lenenl Merrill nerved for one term no nuperlntcndent of the Military Mili-tary Academy nl Weil fetal Wo ad mlnlilratlon wa remarkably rucceM fill In UIT he Will made a llrlgadl leneral During the war leneral MIr rltt received many brevet for Kalian icrvlec In the field nt letty btirg Vet 1 low Tavern Hawe Shop nod rive rirki and for his fervlie 1 In the final campaign In Virginia he wa inaitn Ma Jordeneral of Volunteer an I Iiievet Major 0enrol In the tegular aroma Since the war he tuna done many kinds of frontier service Including much In dim flRhtlng and he innways en Jaed a high reputation for soldierly quallHcatlon of the bet ort The lime far retirement will not come for him till 1900 Tor one of the other vacancies ilantl Kena II Illlm of the Tnenl fourth Infantry ws chosen nnd Income n IlrlgadlerOeneral Colonel lllln his lone been a candidate for promotion and though he posses over the head of two ranking coloneliHhitler of the Klnt Infantry and Merriam of the Sev enthhis appointment was not n slur prli Colonel iltiss has always peen In the Infantry arm of the service which he Joined as A Second Lieutenant whoa he Wa graduated from Vent Point shortly before the war In lt < 3 he wa commliiloned Colonel of the Tenth Ithode Island Infantry Later he wa traniferrrd to the Heventh Rhode Islnnl Infantry He war brevetted for gallant ervlce nt Iredrlck burg and the Wll derne He In I a native of Ilhode Inland and will reach the retiring age In 1899 The other appointment wa that of Colonel John J Couplnger of the Twrn r y W j r t OFV X It IILI8H Iflhlrll I Infantr In be a UrtRadlei leneral Thl promotion wa some thin g of 0 lurprUe in It had 1 been thought that whatever further udvanuo moot this ofllcer received would be at the hand of a Itepubllcun executive He was the on In Inw of the late Jame n Illalne and It would nut hove ui tonliheil many In the army If he had received re-ceived a star from Mr Harrison Indeed In-deed It has been laid that Colonel Copping Cop-ping promotion WAI urged upon 1101 last Republican 1revldint with much Inilitenco by member cf his wife family fam-ily As It ii I ills promotion U I made over the head of thirteen other colonel and I ts he will not be called upon to retire for four years and n half many of thoie lyho have been kipped will probably I knee to leave I the rervlee without at alnlng more thin their present rank Oen nl Cnpplnger wn horn In Ireland I an I w i appointed to the Iourteenth Infantry in Iplln In IHl Irevloui 10 this he had been In the Papal luart it Home and hie companion1 In hula journey nf adventure tu thl + enuntrx were Colonel heough of the Seventh Cavalry killed nl the II I tie Rosebud minacre and Captain Nolan now of he Seventh Cavalry He acted I gal 1 iootiy during the war and wa turn vetted for service 1 at Trevlllan anti Ce Iir Creek while after the war he was irevelted Colonel for xeat and energy while In comminl of troop operating ngilnit hostile In liana In KW Ml ant m M When the war ended general ino rn I npplnger wog lIin Captain of Infantry In-fantry and his rise through the various grade to hie present high rank Is I all i tits more notable |