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Show (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Camp Cavalcade CHADOWY figures In a cavalcade of American history such are the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be soldiers In order to defend their country when the need arises. Camp Toombs, near Toccoa, Ga., is named for one of the most re- markable- men ever produced by that state Robert Rob-ert Toombs (1810-1885), (1810-1885), soldier and statesman. His first military experience ex-perience was as a captain of volunteers vol-unteers against ; the Alabama In-! dians in the 30s, followed by a political po-litical career that - z' took him to me Robert Toombs United States senate from which he was expelled in 1861 because of his advocacy of secession. He could have been president pres-ident of the new Confederate States of America, but he declined that honor, just as he had declined the offer of cabinet offices under President Presi-dent Taylor and Fillmore. He did consent to serve briefly as secretary secre-tary of state under President Jefferson Jeffer-son Davis, then was commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate Confed-erate army in which he served throughout the war. At the close of the conflict he fled to Cuba, lived for a time in England, France and Canada before returning to the United Unit-ed States. His last years were spent near his birthplace, Washington, Ga. Not long after David Sloan Stanley Stan-ley (1828-1902), a native of Ohio, was graduated from West Point, he was sent to the Western Plains as a lieutenant of dragons and started on the career ca-reer which made him one of the best - known Indian In-dian fighters of his day. But before be-fore . that, there D.S.Stanley of service in the Union army during dur-ing which he rose from captain to major-general, and rendered conspicuous con-spicuous service at the battles of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Corinth, Iuka, Jonesboro, Nashville, Spring Hill, Stone River, Resaca, Ruffs Station Sta-tion and Franklin, where he was desperately des-perately wounded but refused to leave the field until the battle was won. After the war, he served against the Indians in the Dakotas, led the famous Yellowstone expedition expedi-tion of 1873, fought the redskins in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and brought peace to the Texas frontier by suppressing Indian raids in the Lone Star state. That's why he is remembered gratefully in Texas and why the camp near Leon Springs bears his name. The name of another great cavalry caval-ry leader is preserved in the name of Camp Wheeler, Wheel-er, near Frank-linton, Frank-linton, Ga. It honors hon-ors the memory of Joseph T. ("Fighting Joe") Wheeler (1836-1906) (1836-1906) the "Georgia "Geor-gia gamecock who was assigned to the dragoons immediately after aft-er his graduation from West Point in 1859. When he I? s I rJ j 1 ' I jv X "" TIT II ifctitftr ft- -imTfi r, rflfliimi entered the Con- Joseph T. federate army he Wheeler was first made colonel of an infantry regiment and commanded a brigade at the Battle Bat-tle of Shiloh. But the next year he was transferred to the cawalry and from that time on he was one of the South's most daring and successful success-ful raiders. After the death of "Jeb" Stuart in 1864, he was the senior cavalry general of the Confederate armies and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. After the war, he studied law and was repeatedly reelected re-elected to congress. At the outbreak out-break of the Spanish-American war, "Fighting Joe" was again in the saddle as a general of cavalry" sent to Cuba to fight the Spaniards. Camp Haan near Riverside, Calif., is also named for a veteran of the Cuban and Philippine campaigns Brig. Gen. William George Haan, a native of Indiana and a West Point graduate in the class of 1839, who was three times recommended for brevets for "conspicuous conduct in action" from 1898 to 1901. |