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Show I l j THE NEW j sKreiTiil i GRAND ARmY i hajor CHIEF i. Rassieur ; Major l,oo Itassleur I poiniod t all the qualifications requisite, for an energetic nnd efficient comandcr-lg chief Ho la not an old man from the roteran line of view being but $1 rears of age , He was bom In Waderrj. near TrevelJ trance, April 19, 1811 and cimo to. merlcan with his parents In 1551 when he was 7 Jears old Ills father waa a school teacher and settled In SI Louis Major llassleur has made that city hL home since He Is n lawyer by profession and for years was Judgt of the probate court of St. Louis county Major Hualcur was one ot tht youngest soldier In the Union army, When ho enlisted as a private, Mny 7, lltl ho waa but n few days over 17 years old lie went Into the scrvlci for three months under ths flrrt call for troops Issued by President Lincoln, Lin-coln, and became a member of Company Com-pany II, Plrst Iteglmcnl Mltsourl volunteer vol-unteer Infantry Aug 20 18l young Itnialcur wis mustered out nt ths ex plratlon of his term of service He had been promoted from a prl vato to orderly acrgcant Sept. 7, 1801 he re e iiuied for three years Thl tin. he i eram a member of Company K f the r Irst llexlment Missouri rol-unteer rol-unteer Infantry and was soon elected Hnt lieutenant April 20 tlfll he waa miHten I nut on seeount of Illness Oaring hi servlca he Mrred a put adjtitan fir some time al araw, Mo un ler order of General John C l-"rfmont When he recovered his strength, MJ hisiirur Joined his command an I w service under den (Irani In September Sep-tember Mi be waa elected captain of till coicpany and a rear later waa nuts tern) oit of the service, lit Texas with his company t tint time he had a commission as major llcturnlnc to St Louis MaJ llassleur became n student stu-dent of the law April 1 M" ha was admitted to ths bar of Miss mrl He practiced bla profession pro-fession su resifully and came to bs knoan aa one ot the leading lawyers of St Iiula Ha was elected probata Judt s me years a to and held ths position po-sition until recently I la 1S93 he was elected Judge advocate advo-cate general ot the (Irand Army of ths 1 Hlpubllc --. ii r -r '- 1 |