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Considering his long experience in the service, Major-General Wood should be the highest authority upon his subject. Starting as assistant surgeon from Massachusetts in 1886, he has rapidly risen. Brilliant services as commanding colonel of "Rough Riders" at Las Guasimas and San Juan brought him the appointment of brigadier-general in 1898. In the same year he was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor "for distinguished conduct in a campaign against Apache Indians while serving as medical and line officer of Captain Lawton's expedition in 1886." Since then he has been appointed major-general...
...been connected with the Army since 1886, when he was made an assistant surgeon. In the year 1898, at the time of the Spanish War, he was given the position of commanding colonel of a volunteer regiment of "Rough Riders"; later he was advanced for exceptional services at San Juan Hill to brigadier general of volunteers...
Major-General Wood commanded the "Rough Riders" in Cuba and was raised to his present rank for his services at San Juan Hill. He was military governor of Cuba, and was later transferred to the Philippines, where he became commander of the Department of the East. In 1909, he was appointed by President Taft to the office of chief of staff of the United States Army, and still holds this position...
...Bishop Edwin O. Hughes, San Francisco...
...meeting of the Fencers' Club held last evening the following officers were elected; president, S., F. Damon '14, of Newton; vice-president, C. T. Vaughan '15, of San Antonio, Tex,; secretary-treasurer, J. A. Aylen, of Ottawa, Canada...