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Show FEW VETERANS OF THE BIG WAR LEFT NOW, SAYS GEN. WADE NEW YORK. April 18 MaJ.-Gen. James F. Wade, L". S. A., for several years In command of the division of the Atlantic, with headquarters on Governor's Island, was retired from active service vesterday after forty-six years of service. MaJ.-Gen. MaJ.-Gen. Frederick D. Grant succeeds him. Wade expects to make his home in Jefferson. Jef-ferson. O., the little city In which he was born. In speaking of the army. Gen. Wade said: "There are only a very few of the Civil war veterans left, and today there is not a single officer in the army who held a commission when I came Into it away back in the sixties. In a little over three years the last officer who saw service in the Civil war will have been retired from the sen-ice and the younger generation of officers will be commapd." |