Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1864 | Born at Easton, Pa., on December 27. |
1884 | Graduated from Lafayette College. |
1888 | Graduated from West Point. |
1898-1901 | Graduated from Artillery School, and on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War went to the Philippines, remaining there three years and rising to the grade of Lieutentant-Colonel of Volunteers. After dishonorable discharge from the Volunteers in 1901, he was appointed Captain of Artillery in the Regular Army. |
1903-1907 | He was a member of the General Staff. In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, was with the Japanese Army in Manchuria as an observer. He was promoted to Major in 1907. |
1916 | Promoted to Colonel. |
1917-1918 | Soon after America’s entrance into World War I in 1917, he was made a Brigadier-General and later Major-General of the National Army, and in September 1917, Major General of the Regular Army. In 1917, he was with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, commanding the American artillery forces. In March 1918, he was appointed acting Chief of Staff, and the following May, Chief of Staff with the rank of General. |
1920-1921 | His rank reverted to that of Major-General, and at his own request he was retired from active service in November of 1921. As Chief of Staff of the Army, he reorganized the War Department, consolidated the Regular Army, National Guard and National Army divisions into a single army – the U.S. Army – and initiated and carried into execution a program that landed 2,000,000 men in France by the time of the Armistice. |