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Show W REAR ADMIRAL HUGO.OSTERHA njji y rllEN Hear Adui ral -llugj Ostcr- Wn W Ual,s commandei m chief of the jjlfil Atlantic tlcet. was a commundcr lie Mm culled ouo day on the President at the g White House. The President was "dc- yftik lighted ' to see him. M "Are you nny relation to my old friend kM General L'eter Joseph OsterhausV" he $& asked. jw "I ani his ou." A "Indeed! I am dc-liyhted to hear that. m And are you by any chance $l relative of M Lieutenant Oslcrlmiw. who Is on my M "I nm his father." K Later on the ofiiccr reiuarked:-"I have W been known as tbe son or my father, but j lhl3 w thc first time I have become known 'tM ai tljc father of my son." OT General Osterhaus was tbc first of the St fighting line to come to America. Ue ML wttlcd in St. Louis, and his first work as Wh a tidier is given in detail by General YM William T. Sherman In hi, L'cronal M -J remember ireinir to tht rtnal ou w Si the 0th of -May," he write, "taking my children with inc. Within the arsenal walls were drawn up four regiments of the Home G nurds aud the activity there vhuwed me very plainlj that they were preparing for trouble. The next morning morn-ing I went up to the railroad ollico in Bremen, as usual, and hca.nl at every corner of the street that the 'Dutch were moving on Camp Jackeou. People w-crt barricading their hoiiFes aud men were running in that direction." Jnckaou was nominally n State camp of instruction, hut in reality had be come a sort of headquarters for Confederate Con-federate sympa I hirers. 'Die Home Guards were regiments eompoiod almost entirely of Germans and were called tho "Dutch." General Osterhaus, who had been an otllccr In the Prussia u army, was at thc head of one of these regiments. regi-ments. "I turned in tbc direction of Camp Jack-ton," Jack-ton," General Sherman goes on to say. "my bo. Willie with mo still. At the head of Oliver street, abreast of Lindell's Grove, I found Frank Hlnir's regiment In the street with ranks open and the Fort Tackson prisoners inside. A crowd of jeoplc was gathered around calling to thy prisoners by name. 3omc hurrahing for Jifl" Davis and otl.ers uuum aging the troops. I parsed aloug nil 1 found myself my-self inside the grove, where 1 mei Charles Uwing and John Hunter, and we stood looking nt the troop in thc road heading tcward the city." At this point Gcneinl Sherman says a drunken man started to mukc trouble and a sergeant pitched him over an embankment. embank-ment. "Ity the time he had picked himself him-self up," writes Gcuom! Sherman, "and had again mounted thtr embankment the regulars had passed and thc head of Oster-hnns' Oster-hnns' icgiment of Homo Guards had come up. The man had in his baud a small pistol, which he fired, aud I henrd that the ball struck the le? of one of OsterhauV 8t6ir; tbe icgiment Mopped: thcic was n moment of confusion, when the soldiera of tnat regiment commenced firing over our heiid iu the grove." Although several pernios were killed or wounded In (hU affair. General Oster-Iiau8' Oster-Iiau8' regiment conducted itielf in a ol-lierly ol-lierly maimer on ihe whole. They were raw troops and unaccustomed to actual lighting Knrly iu the civil war Pclcr Osterhaus was made a iuajor(of the Second Missouri volunteer. After serving lu oU--ngc-mciits at Dug Springs and "Wilson's US A POW i eel, lie was mad" Colonel of the Vvveirth -M.soim. He commanded a brigade under un-der General .Tolin C rrenmut and took part in an expedition under Gcucr.il Samuel Sam-uel it. Curtis into Arkansas in pursuit of General Steiling Price. At Pea Ridge he led a division, aud wu.. promoted to the l-inl of Ungndier General of Yoluutceis on June 1), 1SG2 At Helena, Ark., h; commanded a division divi-sion and participated in the capttiro of Arkansas Post and iu the siege of Yicks-bnrg. Yicks-bnrg. At Chattanooga and Missouri Uldg l.e commanded thc First Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps and in that com-maud com-maud went through the Atlanta cam paign, the march through Georgia and the campaign of the Cnraliuas. On Jul.v 23. ISOl, he VJt appointed a -Major General, Gen-eral, and at thc surrender of Gcueral K. Ivirby Smith he acted as chief of Maff to General ICdward It. S. Canny. It Is not recorded what the intimate of .Major General Peter J. Osteihaus called him. P.ut Ids .son came out f the Xuval Academy in iSOo known as "Diuchv" Osterhaus which his cl.ixg-mntes cl.ixg-mntes call him to his face and other? behind his buck. And his grnmhon was graduated "Dutcby" Ostcrhiua In ix0. i ERFUL FIGURE IN U. 5. NAVY Mo long ai then is .111 O.-ierhaus in thel service he will be called "Dutchy." Ill i u way ihey have at Annapolis, just I us inidshipineu of a Certain surname a real re-al ways called "Spuds" and of another are ever known as ".Mike," even if their Christian hjiiics are Clinrlemagne aud Samuel. The Midshipman Ostorhain of , lSGo saw the bcgiuuitig of the end of Ihe great civil war Heot. lie served on ninny .ships and many stations aud frequently at the Xuval Acadeni.v, where be was a great 1 success as a discipline olllcor and an instructor in-structor in seamanship. Among others 1 he is resiKiusible for some of thc young otllecr.s wbo are doing big things In tbe I service to-daj. Alwas there was a 1 sharp distinction between his perMina) 1 and olliciul relations with thc midship I men. Those upon w horn he ".spooned" I that is', Iu Aeademj lingo, tboe whom he 1 liked were most stiro to receive dotuerit.s j at his hulids. Making his' inspection annuls, at the Academy the then Lieutenant Osterhaus si entered the room of a midshipman toward 1 whom he was especially friendly in a 1 jcixjiui sense, lie opem-d the wardrobe f door, reported bim for certain violations I land regulations, iluic, and passed out. A moment later the mid-diipuian heard a knock on the door. I.ieiircnaut Osterhaus Oster-haus cntcied, smiling "Hy the way," he remarked, "Mrs. Osterhaus Os-terhaus and I would like very much to have yon come to dinner to-uhjbl." Lieutenant Osterhaus was obliged to leave dinner early to discharge his duties as a discipline officer. The midshipniau re! liming to his quarters passed him. Lieutenant Osterhaus' keen eye swept over the joungster's uniform and detected the absence of an overcoat button. The uffence was promptly reported. Just before the Spanish-American War begun he wax ll.ij-; lieutenant ou the Maff f Rear Admiial Uuiiee, coiniuauder 111 ?liief of the Nortji Atlantic fleet. Daring Dar-ing the war he served on the cruiser I'rairie, More licet manoeuvres and bat-:le bat-:le drills were conducted then 1 Jut 11 at my tune until Ihe cruixu of the battle diip fleet around the world, iluriiijc which Japtain Osiei'luiiic, commanded the ilug-ihip ilug-ihip Connecticut. Jlcitco wheu Rear Ad-niral Ad-niral Osterhaus in due enon hoisted lis two sinned blue flag pviSr lh uio'l wwerful American J!rci far orgauiited le had had thu "bOuefit of much of tint ?V ' ' mai.oeuvring experience of the service B during the preceding fifteen years. Ho H ranks high as a "sailor man." Members H of the clasji of 1S0C recall with admira- H tiou the way he handled thc old Monon- H gahela in Lynn Haven Ruad.s dtiriug H a Xav.il Academy practice cruise. II ii German anccMry makes Rear Ad- H miral Osterhaus a stickler fur detail and a master of it. He bclievex in being H thoroughly prepared for all eniergenuic--, H at all times. List May when orders H wen? suddenly issued from Washiugion H bidding the Atlantic fleet, or thc greater H part of it, to go to Cuban w.tlet, Rear H Ailnural (Nterhuiis mobiluted Jus widely llllH scattered vec!s in 1 coord time. lie con- eentrnted them at -New York and Hantp- H ton Roads lo receive coal, supplier, urn- munition and marines. .After a few 1 H hours' work the vessels were nt sen again. H The Rear Admiral himself went fiom Newport to New York ou the armored IH cruiser Washington, remained uiily a few hours aud Meituied away again almost, be- jH fore (he public knew he wax here. Thu H whole mubtlixation was conducted with- H out a hitch, principally because the man H JiCcomnmnd of the licet was ranlr.fpr H !f$Pthlng'don'u to the Miiullsst derail I |