Volume 17 , Issue 16

1909 Memorial Day

It was on the front page of the New York Tribune, dated Sunday, 30 May 1909, the headlines read: "Memorial Day this year finds sixteen veterans of the civil war still on the active list of U. S. army officers."

The thirteen pictured in the article were:

• 1.) Col. E. E.. Wood, professor of Modern Languages, West Point.
• 2.) Col. Edgar S. Dudley, Judge Advocate and head of Law Department, West Point.
• 3.) Brigadier Gen. Charles Morton, Commander of the Department of the Missouri.
• 4.) Brigadier Gen. William L. Marshall, Chief of Engineers.
• 5.) Col. O. J. Sweet, 28th Infantry.
• 6.) Col. John L. Clem, Assistant Quartermaster General, San Antonio, Texas.
• 7.) Lt. Col. W. W. Robinson, Jr., Deputy Quartermaster General, stationed at Chicago.
• 8.) Maj. General John F. Weston, Commander of the Department of California.
• 9.) Maj. E. O. Fechet, Signal Corps, Boston.
• 10.) Col. J. N. Allison, Chief Commissary department of the East, Governor's Island.
• 11.) Brigadier General George B. DAvis, Judge Advocate General.
• 12.) Lt. General Arthur MacArthur.
• 13.) Brigadier Gen. Earl D. Thomas, Commander of the Department of the Colorado.

The others not pictured were Brigadier General Charles L. Hodges, and Brigadier General Daniel H. Brush, who were in the Philippines and Captain D. W. Arnold, who was in Japan. It also mentioned that had Major Charles S. Walkley been born four days later he also would have been included in the group. Captain Arnold had retired on the 26th day of May 1909.

Brief sketches of their careers, together with announcements of Memorial Day celebrations tomorrow would be found in another part of The Tribune dated on this day, 30 May 1909.

For those doing their genealogy research and see a familiar surname, click the link above to search through this tribune.
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