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Show 1 ARMY CHIEF RETIRES By tho retirement of General McCoBkcy from IrVkr" "-ft."-' '"H tho Uulti States army the other day at tho ?i'Vr ago of Gl by operation of tho law as to ago tl$ limit, tho force loses one of Its most unlquo !f'n tf'A AO'W characters. Tho general .is tho last commission- h 'f)T j-J ed officers on tho nctlvo. list who answered Prcsl- ' , 'fy& fy&fytifrtj' , dent Lincoln's first call for volunteers In April, ;(i JSll 18G1, and, .sorved throughout tho civil war, a ,i ivWMjyli' period of "more than four years. He received 7?i?bMl his commission ns major general, United States ' 'iJl . ' " army, on tho forty-sixth anniversary of IiIb entry yfL ' i Into tho volunteer service as. a private. f&irtSmBn Ho was Idcnttlled with tho First nnd Seventy- fefx fiffl I ninth volunteer regiments from Pennsylvania HKB 1 during tho war, and served In General Putter- BxV FH 1 son's nrmy In Virginia, and later In tho armies kJi of Ohio and Cunibcrland. His regiment, tho Soventy-nlnth Pennsylvania I volunteers, belonged to tho Fourteenth army corps nnd ho was present with f it in nil campaigns andTjattles. from 1861 until mustered out July, 1865, ' at Washington, IX C, as 'h 'captain. Ho was 'appointed In tho regular nrmy bb second and first lloutenant Feb. 23, 18CC, nnd assigned to. tho Thirteenth United States Infantry, transferred trans-ferred to tho Twenty-second Infantry, and later to tho Twentieth infantry, in which regiment ho sorved for nearly thirty-five yenrs, filling ovory grado from first lieutenant to colonel. General McCuskey was advanced to tho grado of brlgodlor general January, 1904, and has Burvcd two tours In tho Philippine islonds. His entlro period has been spent In tho lino of tho army. |