Show I D IJI 1H FI Of G NtAl FbAGtR cH OF OCNAC BUREAU AT WASHINGTON Served Tough the Civil War and Rendered Important Service In the Ordnance Department Washington March 291 dispatch received here from Old Point Va says that Brigadier General Flagler chief of ordnance U S A died at the Hy geIa hotel at 5 oclock this afternoon General Flagler was born in New York and was appointed to the mill lacy academy from that state July 1 186 He was graduated No5 in the class of 1861 and was appointed second lieutenant of ordnance He served with credit through the civil war His earliest military service ivan in coI necion with the drilling of volunteers at Washington D C after which he acte as adedecamp to Colonel Hunter Hun-ter in the laa a campaign being engage in the first battle of Bun Run He was afterwards aIdedecap to General McDowell fn the defenseS of Washington D C He accompanied General Bursides expedition to North Carolina as chief Qf ordnance ad was engaged in the battle and capture of Roanoke island also in the attack oi I Newber N C the capture or For Macon the Maryland campaign wit the army ot the Potoma in the battle I of South Mountain batte of Antet I the tate of Fredericksburg battle of I Chancehlorsville and the battle of Gettysburg Get-tysburg He was breveted tree times during the war a captain major and lieutenant colonel Since the war he has served at various va-rious stations on ordnance duty and has rendered mos Important service in the development of the ordnance de partent of the army In the west he served at Fort UnIon arena New Mexico and San Antonio arsenal Ten a He reached the grade of lieutenant colonel of ordnance in 1881 and the grade of colonel n 1890 WhIle in command com-mand or the Watertown arsenal in t 189 he was promoted to brigadier general gen-eral and chief df ordnance and has since served In that capacity |