Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-07-25 | Page 1 | Famous Indian War Veteran Dies in Chicago

fAMOUS INDIAN WAR VAR VETERAN DIES I I CHICAGO CHICAGO AGO Jul July 25 Brigadier Brigadier General General Gen Gen- eral lal Camillo umi le i Cadmus Carr ra a. pad Cair a veteran of tho the civil hil a and 1 Amer Spanish Amer lean can ican n wars and m many Indian is dead at his home homo hero He was bornat born bornat bornat at Harrisonburg Va on March 3 1842 1843 The veteran attended the tho old Chicago Chicago Chi cago university until his senior year I in n 1862 when ho he enlisted in the tho Union army Ho rose rapidly and in June 1864 was ms appointed first first- lieutenant Ho lie was wounded at Todds Todd's Tavern and at ot Cedar Creek Creck After tho the close of the war ho bo remained remained re in the tho service going west to engage in Indian campaigns n 1 remaining remain remain- i in ing there with his command for lor nearly thirty years ears General Carr was a n cavalry officer I during the great greater or part of his life He lie was with the tho First cavalry during the tho civil war and remained with it until he was vas made a major in tho the Eighth en cavalry after his last Indian campaign against lg the Sioux in Dakota in 1891 1591 Ho He was cavalry instructor at Port Fort Leavenworth intermittently from 1885 to In 1898 1893 he was placed in command of western Porto Rico and in 1900 led n a regiment in the tho Philippines After returning to tho the United Stat States s she ho he was wa commandant at Fort Riley Eiley Kansas until 1906 when be he was re re- rc- rc tired He held similar positions first in inthe inthe inthe the department of Missouri and later of Dakota