Show GENERAL ABBOT OLDEST CADET WASHINGTON AUK Aug 29 tHy 3 By The Associated Press The The story goes that Brig Gen Ceo Henry L L. Abbot has received more army pay since he re re- re tired than he did before He Is the oldest living West Vest Point graduate on the army rolls rolIs having reached the retirement age of 64 04 Just 32 years ago igo General Abbot has been In the army since 1850 18 0 when Just his nine nine- nineteenth nineteenth birthday he was accepted as a cadet at the military academy He went Into the Civil war as a first lieu lieu- lieutenant lieutenant tenant and came out a colonel al- al although although though hough a series of honorary promo- promo lions lons for gallant and ser ser- service serIce vice Ice had lifted him to the brevet rank of a II major general with the United States volunteers Subsequently his permanent rank was raised to that of brigadier general retired Beginning his army career with th the topographical engineers he was v. en- en engaged prior to 1857 on a B survey of the railroad route between California and Oregon when that part of the world was wild and woolly After After- Afterwards Afterwards wards until the Civil war intervened he was to the hydrographic survey of the Mississippi delta In Lou Lou- LouIsiana During the early stages stats of the war he tie served as an engineer first with McDowell and then with Tyler win win- winning rung fling his first brevet ct promotion at the battle of Bull Run Subsequent Sub hon hon- honorary honorary honorary promotions promo lions were given to him In recognition of services ices at Yorktown Petersburg and Richmond After the war he was made a a. major In the corps of engineers and was ap ap- appointed ap- ap appointed pointed a member of ot the board des des- desIgnated designated to conduct experiments in the thelisa lisa of Iron In the permanent defenses of ot the nation Since his Isis retirement he has established his home at Cam Cain bridge Mass |