Show STORY OF THE ARMY Man Mn In American Service Dropped From Major General to Private Chicago o News Well Wel said the old colonel every eer regiment has Its Is share of queer char har actors but for ups and downs In rank rak rakI I do not believe beleve any anyone one in the Amer American AmerIcan American sin ican service serice ever equaled quale Augste Auguste Tas Tassin Tassin Tassin was born bor in France and ant came to this country co nt when he was a 14 1 years old His family were of th the no nobility nobility of the very ver oldest since the first Count Tassin was in the first frt crusade An ancestor in direct line Una lne was wa governor of the province of Louisiana under Louis Luis XV and it was wa this fact tact made young Tassin come to this roun cun tun try t It gave him a romantic Interest 1 In America Amerl The civil war a broke out and at 19 he was captain In the Thir Thin Indiana At 21 he hewa was colonel of ot the same samo sro regiment and General Generl Thomas the rock of Chickamauga called cale him the bravest man he had ever known He was wa three tree times corn com commended mended for bravery braver in special orders Older was wounded nine times and in so 10 many battles battes that I am a afraid to try tr to say sy how many Only a boy bo mind you When the war ar was va over he was wa ap appointed appointed appointed pointed a lieutenant of ot regulars and his old volunteer regiment him a sword of ot honor honorow Now ow It I Is a strange thing that th t this daredevil should be a scholar hut but he hewa was wa Indeed I have often ofen wondered where he found time to study e ehe ehe he began soldiering at 13 He was waa wa a notable geologist and almost the first American to do anything with wih forest forestry ry TI r He Je studied Irrigation was an ex expert exper expert pert per In sewerage and an authority nn n the Indians Idias His work In these the lines made him a n corresponding member of nearly neary all al the European scientific so societies cleties It I brought him the thanks tanks tt f the tha legislatures of California and Rud Ne Nevada Neada Nevada vada ada and he received official teatime testimonials nials from several Nevada evada cities He was still sti a Frenchman even I we did catch him young When en th the war broke out out cv CIT to France he went went receiving rec on hs departure a gift git of a sword from the tha t state of Nevada Nevada He fought tou ht through the whole war became malor geneal general 1 of cavalry and won the cross of ot grani gran commander of the te Legion Lgon of or Honor During the commune he was a general to General Generl MacMahon Ma aon aft r ward president of France Then over here in xo learned leared that he had ha disappeared from France and we wondered what had be br become brome come ome of ot him Everything had gone gon t pot there t ere One day President Grant was waa Ir IT a fort riding about and looking at things Suddenly ha hn leaped off or his horse and ran no to a a private soldier who was carrying a achain achain achain chain for a surveyor sUe or The president grabbed gabbed both the soldiers soldiers hands al almost most niost seemed about to embrace him What Wat Auguste Augste Tassin colonel of rf volunteers major of ot regulars major majo maor general In the army of France Frace a n private private private vate soldier In these days of jumping would have been given his rank of ot rna ma major Jor back again agin But things thing went In H their regular order then While probably pm ably some good men Were ere thus k kv rf pt down some good ones also too In this business the te whole turns upon the ability of ot the man ma se ae selecting e to make a good selection Good old President Pr sid en Grant had Tas Tassin Tassin sin made a second lieutenant as s nn n nas as he could get a blank p But before Tassin got higher than cap captain tain tam he died Toward the end of his lla he became a good deal of a recluse studying constantly and adding to me scholastic reputation |