| Show E iI j st r tI V E Honors For Uncle Sam Sams s Faithful 0 Soldiers Soder V ii I Four Lieutenant Generals Within a Few Fetes Months Month V V i V ilE 1111 recent resignation re ls nallon and ancI re ye retirement reo yeI I of oC Lieutenant Gen Con General ConI V THU T I V oral eral Adna L It n Charted as ILl chief i V of ot stuff staff and nun tho subsequent sub t promotion to vacancy of Vet Major ii General John 0 C Hates former assist assistant V ant s n t chief ot of start mark another step In iii that thu rapid progression which Is s terminating V the military outers of oC four very ery Interesting men the he two already mentioned those liaise men omen are Adin Ad Adjutant in V General Henry C Corbin and Ind andL L h Major General Arthur MacArthur According to the tue present pres age limit limitt t i retirement front from active service In iii the 1 jI United 1 States army IB Is prescribed at nl V hj kr General would 1 4 V have leached thin tha retirement ale age on oni i IrV 1 April 14 1 4 next but h Ito hf anticipated time the i legal I expiration of his hla military life lite by Ji resigning on out Jan JaIl 15 IS of oC the tho present ji V year General Hates commissioned M j V lieutenant general succeeded him hint mind V i Is Its now hair lu lit command Ills His tenure of or of ot iii 1 V lice will viii bo tin brief since h ii he V V V I will bo be at al the tho age limit Aug 26 len Gen General L t I I eral Corbin who would be bt Ids hula hl logical rI will have less lesa than a month V of or the honor since ho he will III arrive at III the I f i V retirement period Sept 15 16 He lie II has hall al nl already alV V rh Jt I ready announced his bin Intention of ot In de deI Inclining I g j clining the tha th position of chief of ot stare staff but bul of Itt course will accept the short I 3 lived dignity of ot lieutenant general generall l Vt Major General Jamos K Ir Wade would loul V become lieutenant general and amid chief of ot ij V upon the thu retirement ment of General V Corbin hut but Wades Vad data of or retirement i Aci Is 18 April U H 1907 years jears before hIs bin ht pred r V V V V j will retire General O Corbins I declaration that ho will not accept tho the V F of lit chief of ot staff Itan amid Ills his recant 1 that General J Ji i e h hell Dell a n younger man bo be b re cc I for tor the vacancy will relieve rollee the flirt i dj service of all In iii the I V matter In future retiring unicorn will willbe willbo be bo satisfied to become lieutenant gen genf f ernie erali and the lime position of chief cia lot of oC staff f tt will 11 be ha entirely dissociated General 1 V Arthur who will wll not reach J the ago ngo until June 2 1009 1909 out oat outranks L j t I f c ranks rank ado anti and will succeed l Corbin as lIS asP P fl lieutenant general Thus the rank of ot iJ f ti t lieutenant general will become purely 1 t V honorary After MacArthur It will be belong f 4 i long to General Leonard Wood who rho 1 pj will be entitled to hold U it until Oct 9 f 1 r it 1 LV i 1924 a 1 period of ot fifteen years jears ear the i tI 1 since the tho rank was established V V All Ml of or these thes officers with the exception V 1 i I of oC Wood are veterans of the civil war rari i General Chaffen I is 19 a it hero of at live wars Vi t tt lie Jle lies has no courtier warrior but hut a n II I 1 lighting fighting man nun who has neon lIoen many t I n a 1 desperate conflict mimi and the greater part r h V j of ct whose whoso military life lite has been spent I V In III hard harel service I on lii the frontier keepIng i i hostile Indians Indiana within bounds anti and led head leidIng t i lug Ing tho the advance honce guard In the march of i civilization across the tho plains As s a aft ft P j t soldier General Chaffee halce served ord his hili ap apprenticeship In the tho civil war Ho Ito en cn entered t V the ranks as os a private In tn the tha theR R i V Sixth Ohio cavalry July 2 22 1861 1161 It 11 itI I V al was tilts not until lS 7 that hn lie drew the tha payI pay pO I of ot a captain of oC regulars having passed f hi V slowly lowly onward without n a break brcak In the time thelong theIon l I long Ion list lift of subordinate officers At the thu th close cloie of ot time the war he had only gained g the thep p rank of or major of volunteers lIe Ho con can considered himself fortunate to 10 get got a n nip cap captaincy V In the tho regular army 1 As captain remained for tor I fV I II Ii i r i b t r 1 rL rT c I I I B E I MA C A TH THI I twenty years He lie had an nut abundance of oC Indian lighting and nJ a surfeit of oC bard ship Ih Ip In the tile open hut but promotion lImo came very ery ery slowly At t the tho conclusion lon of oC the Spanish war In iii which he hue figured so prominently Chaffee was wal only a 1 lieutenant lieu lieutenant tenant colonel In lit the regular army arlit who had hall been acting major general of oC vol inI volunteers ul At the conclusion of he was promoted to 10 the tha colonelcy of ot the tho Eighth cavalry Hut But the government had discovered his value and when American troops were vero w ro nent to II the Iho re ye relief relief lief ilef ot ol the tho legation In Ill China Chirm It 1 was who was nas to 10 lead the expedition dl anti and to manage the Ihn delicate ell business His IllS record In the Philippines speaks penk for tor Itself General hates Halts U ha II a n Ml nail hn he entered tho the Union army In 11 1861 1461 as 18 a first lieutenant In the Eleventh In Infantry fantry he hs and Chaffie were with Meade at nl Gettysburg and was wn attached to that commanders staff Muff un until unlit lit til the close doss of oC the war ivar At tt t that period he lie had hall risen to Ie the lank HUlk of ot lieutenant colonel of ot volunteers He lie remained In inI I the military service of ot the tho government and In 18 had hud ben been promoted to t the colonelcy colon lcy of this tha Second Infantry Our fur During ing the tIme war with Spain ho hI was a ti briga general of or volunteers ald went w ent nl to tu Santiago with Shatters arm army He lie won considerable distinction In the short campaign und and at Its clone chose wn was W made governor of lr Cubi Cub Soon Houn afterward he Willi ordered to 0 tho Philippines and antI put In command of the tite military district of or Jolo Tolo anti and Mindanao lit lie was very verj er In quieting the tile unrest which prevailed In the these acquired regions legions and alit con eon eluded a p ICO aco with the sultan of ot Hulu the chief ruler of ot the province Since his return to 10 the states General Hates Bates haul had been leen In command of the depart department ment meat of Missouri General Henry Clark Corbin Is an another other oilier born Lorn soldier The Military academy at nt West We t Point has hall turned d out ninny many Rood good lighting men but It Is as ns astrue true of oC the tho profession lon of arms as a of ot any other that In 11 order to become n a soldier of the time highest type lype one must k it 1 6 L j S J t f j I B AT E S fr be endowed endo ed with the true soldierly In Instinct an Inscrutable something which neither curriculum nor cultivation can cami supply The TIme careers of ot time the four Cour great captains of ot this sketch ore are striking evidence that this Is true trul Not Nol ot ono one of ot I them was wa a II student at West test Point and All of oC them are mire at III the high water mark of their profession General Corbin was born In Clermont Chermont county count 0 In 1812 The Time district dl school antI and anc the local academy furnished the joung farmer boy Joy the foundation of ot the time t 1 I t I ls I lint I u H r and ani self culture perfected The civil war wor was the tho opportunity that calno caine to shape hape the tho young joung mans When Lincoln called for tor volunteers Corbin was wag among the first to respond to 10 the thu summons In four tour years he had hall developed from tho the raw country lad Into the colonel con 1 of ot a regiment with a II with wide reputation for Cor soldierly qualities Corbins regiment was nut not disbanded until March 1866 1166 The Tue young colonel received rece veil the brevet of oC brigadier general and ani was at al once commissioned a second lieutenant In the Ih regular army arm lie ilo rose gradually step by step and anti his promo promotions were ivere always In lii recognition of ot oma distinct service to 10 the government between the date of ot his enhance Into the tho regular army and that nf of hits his com coin commission mission as major anti and assistant adjutant tant general a 11 period of fifteen en yean won the tho reputation of ot being belli ono ohm of ot the tha most mo t redoubtable re Indian fighters In III trw the th army ormy He lie served on o the staffs of oC Hunt Schofield Terry Crook amid MIles Mile mind and for tor ten tell years jears earll of ot this period ho neither sought nor ner received a II days furlough In 1892 lS 2 General Corbin was ordered to duty dut at lit the this war department and an five years later was promoted to the rank of If adjutant general By fly that time lime hn lie was wall ono one of or the best besl known military men In hum time tho country having served as liS mill mili military tary tn at nt tho the WhIte While House and having had bad an nn intimate acquaintance with several of the tho presidents und aol with noted public men of ot all parties Ho Ife 0 was wall a 1 personal friend of oC and an was wan In his company at thu tue railroad station at atthe the tIme limo of at tho the assassination Ho Ito also nho stood by his hla friends bedside at ut that sad nd finale nt III J N J S When the war var with Spain pain I wan Willi de do declared Adjutant General Corbin became the tile busiest man maim In the tile country Up UI Upon Upon on him developed tho the great task of oC or organizing organizing equipping and amid moving not hot only the tho regular but also tim volunteers All 11 the detail preparation of oC making out omit the limo cud and appointments fell feit to him him At tt Atthe t the close of oC the th war he lie was made mido ma mil major jor general Major General Arthur MacArthur be began gao gan Ills hIs hl career as ns a soldier years ago 00 and hn hue la b today the Ideal typo of or n it modern army officer As the military heath head of oC time thu department of the tho Philippines ho lie demonstrated that fact tact to te tIme tho satisfaction of ot the tho most mo l Skeptical The general Is II a II suave courteous man men shrewd and amiable antI and on II with u IL re Ill remarkable remarkable Insight Into human nature BesIdes s being belu a 11 model soldier oMler ha tie Is ha likewise a diplomat Ills lila grasp of ot at af affairs fairs faire In iii thu Philippines was wan tic the III result of oC nn arm Intelligence beyond thit fiat of ot a 11 mere macro soldier No one over oer saw him or betrayed Into Impatience Although h he ha has hal the reputation of or IK beIng Ing an nn In Inflexible Inflexible inflexible flexible disciplinarian ho he U is I a n general favorite among all ranks In time the army array General MacArthur a 11 native of oC Mas Mae Massachusetts Is Its also a n graduate of ot tho time civil war and not of We West Vest t Point Ho lI served with distinction In the tIme Army of ot the Tennessee and auth was promoted as nR tho the result of DC gallantry on several hard fought Melds Congress voted him a I medal for tor bravery at lit Missionary i in Us lie n Is to 10 be the most t scholarly man oman In time the craw army being especially e well as ILS a historian I v RA |
