Show GENERAL MILESS RETIREMENT LieutenantGeneral Nelson Appleton Miles commanding the United States Arm Is retIre from active service today to-day having reached the ageG4of compulsory retirement Ho was born In Westminster Massachusetts AugustS August-S 1839 The career of General Miles has been a noteworthy one that exemplifies in a shining career the possibilities of what a young man may do and become In these United States lie received an academic education and was engaged In tho mercantile business In Boston when the war of the rebellion broke out On September 9 > 1861 he volunteered volun-teered as a soldier and was mustered into the service as Lieutenant in the Twentysecond Massachusetts The next year he was made LieutenantCol onel of the Sixtyfirst New York He i fought in all tho battles of the Army I of the Potomac save one till the surrender i sur-render oC Leo at App maUox being I be-ing promoted through the several grades for meritorious services receiving his commission as Major Ma-jor General of volunteers October 21 1865 being mustered out of the service serv-ice September 1 1SCC with that grade Ho had on July 28th been appointed Colonel In the regular army commandIng command-Ing I the Fortieth United States infantry He received on March 2 1S67 the brevets bre-vets of BrigadierGeneral and Major General for bravery at Chancellorsvllle and Spottsylvrnla He was transferred to the Fifth Infantry on March 15 1S69 defeated the Cheyenne Kiowa and Comanche Indians on the borders of the Staked Plains In 1S75 and in 1876 subjugated the hostile Sioux and other Indians in Montana driving Sitting Bull across the Canada frontier and breaking break-Ing up the hostile bands under their different dif-ferent leaders In September of that year he Inteicepted and captured theN the-N Perces under Chief Joseph whom General Howard was chasing and caught a band of Bannoclcs in 1S7S that were raiding near Yellowstone Park He got his full BrigadierGeneralship in 1SSO and commanded the District of the Columbia for five years In 1SS5 he was given command of the Department of the Missouri and In April 1SGC he was transferred to Arizona where after a hard campaign against the Apaches he forced the surrender on September 4th of Gcrbnlmo and Natchez For this campaign he was presented a sword of honor at Tucson on November 8 1S87 and was thanked by the Legislatures of Kansas IVfontana New Mexico and Arizona for his services In th Wost He was In command of the United States troops in Chicago during the railway strike troubles in 1SS1 He was mado MajorGeneral April 5 1890 He represented the United States Army at the seat of the GrecoTurkish war and also at Queen Victorias Jubilee In 1S07 In 1898 he published his narrative of personal per-sonal observation and experience after his tour of Europe entitled Military Europe a handsome Illustrated book In 1900 Juno 6th he was raised to tho rank of LieutenantGeneral His services serv-ices during the war with Spain were chiefly confined to the peaceful conquest oC Porto RIco Last year he made a tour of Inspection in the Philippines and made an unworthy report of It The early and almost all of the later career of Gen Miles was commendable commenda-ble this embalmed beef controversy failed of the complete success he hoped for because he neglected to sufficiently fortify himself with facts but his efforts ef-forts toward Improving the supplies for tho soldiers was appreciated and the public wished more power to his arm But with the partial 1 failure of that ef fort he was doubtless sour before his fourness became manifest to the public I and his ranging himself on the side of the malignors of the army In the Philippines discredited him l In the pub lie mind It Is i a pity that he goes out of the army under the shadow of the displeasure two Presidents his political politi-cal sense he has shown a good deal of political acumen should have saved him from that His services to his country coun-try have been distinguished It Is a sorrow sor-row that the good work of his hands was so marred by tho evil working of his mouth e I |