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GENERAL MILES
DROPS DEAD IN
: WASHINGTON D.C.
ANGINA PECTORIS WAS GIVEN
AS CAUSE OF DEATH—
MRS. COOLIDGE NEAR.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.
—(fP)—General Nelson A. Miles,
dropped dead while attending a
circus. # He had apparently been
in the best of health. Mrs.
Coolidge was near at the time, an
attendant.
Later advices from physicians
said that Angina Pectoris caused
the General's death.
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles,
brilliant Indian fighter and one of
the most picturesque and distinguish
ed leaders in American military his
tory, was one of the “boy generals”
of the Civil War. At the age of 25
he had risen from the rank of first
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lientenant of volunteers to that of
major General, and was commanding
an entire army division of 25,000
men.
General Miles, who at the peak of
his military career was Commanding
General of the army, was one of
the fewr high ranking officers of the
regular establishment to attain his
position without West Point train
ing, and also enjoyed the distinc
tion of being among the still smal
ler group to be honored with the
rank of Lieutenant General.
From a clerical position in a Bos
ton business house, he entered the
army at the age of 22; participated
in more than 30 of the severest en
gagements of the Civil War; was
four times at the point of death from
wounds, and emerged from the great
struggle the possessor of many envi
able citations for bravery and dis
tinuished service. Continuing in the
army, he fought and persued Indians
on the Great Plains for more than
20 years; led the army of occupation
into Porto Rico during the Spanish
Ameridan war, and although long
retired when the United States en
tered the World War, he was ready
and eager to participate once again
in the service to which his life had
been devoted.
It -was the saddest disappointment
of a long and adventurous career
when, despite his best efforts. Gen
eral Miles was not recalled to ac
tive service in 1917. He had been
retired in 1903 upon reaching the
age limit, but when the United States
entered the European war, he asked
to be sent to Siberia with the Amer
ican troops. It was decided, how
ever, that an exception could not be
made in his case, hence his last mil
itary service was in 1916, when he
presided over the Medal of Honor
Board which reviewed the list of of
ficers and men w'ho had been hon
ored by the nation with that decora
tion.
General Miles received his first
military training at the hands of a
former officer of the Fernch army
who eked out a livelihood in Bos
ton by teaching a number of young
men the tactics employed by the
French army. It was quite natural
that his ambitions should enter on
the army, for he sprang from a long
line of fighting colonists on the pa
ternal side. The family traced its
ancestry back to the Rev. John
Myles, a “fighting parson,” who, upon
the outbreak of “King Phillip’s War”
in 1675, girded on his sword and led
the Colonists against the Indians.
Captain Myles’s home was fortified
by the pioneers, and from there he
led many subsequent forays against
the red men.
'Daniel Miles and Joab Miles, a
great grandfather and grandfather,
respectively, of General Nelson A.
Miles, fought in the Revolutionary
War, and were “in at the death”
•when Yorktcuwn fell. His father,
Daniel, also was a fighter.
The elder Daniel Miles at one
time possessed a large landed for
tune, which he had built up through
long years of unremitting toil. Just
as the country was settling back af
ter the War of Independence, Daniel
Miles was one of those who repos
ed enough confidence in the govern
ment he had aided in establishing
to convert his farms and treasure
into Colonial currency. There was
a great wave of counterfeiting sweep
ing the land at that time, however,
and hardly had the Miles fortune
been counted out in paper money
when the government suddenly re
pudiated the entire issue, and the
family, along with others, was reduc
ed almost to poverty.
Young Nelson himself was a light
er and Indian vanquisher from his
earliest youth. While at school he
was never so happy as when leading
his comrades against imaginary “In
dians,” who were always uppermost
in the young soldier’s mind. His
elder brother, Daniel, who taught him
in school, used this military predil
ection to calm theboy’s prankish mo
ments. He was sore pressed to dis
cipline Nelson until he used military
terms. Being kept after school or
thrashed had little effect, but when
the teacher said “Nelson, you have
disobeyed the command of your su
perior officer, and are a prisoner
of war,” the results were immediate.
General Miles was born at West
minster, Mass., April 8, 1839, and
received an academic education there
and in Boston. In later years he
was warded the honorary degree of
LL.D. by Harvard, Brown and Col
gate.
When the Civil War broke out,
many civilians organized units with
their own funds, and later took
command of their townsmen in the
army. When the Roxbury Guards
were recruited, the enthusiastic cit
izens of that town promised a boun
ty of $20 for each man who enlisted.
The money was delayed, however,
and when the company was com
pleted and the funds still failed to
materialize, Miles took the only thou
sand dollars he had in the world and
by borrowing $2,500 more, paid the
men their bonus. He was never re
imbursed by the forgetful town coun
cil.
iMiles passed thru the bloody bat
tile of Antietam unscratched and won
further commendation. At Chancel
lorsville he again elicited the praise
of Hancock and was marked for pro
motion. Some years later he was
awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor, the nation's highest distinc
tion, “for distinguished gallantry at
Chancellorsville.” It was at this bat
tle that he received his most seri
ous wound, a shot in the abdomen.
It kept him out of the battle of Get
tysburg; but he recovered in time
to take part in Grant’s campaign
against Richmond.
By softie queer coincidence many
years after the war, Miles met the
Confederate soldier who fired the
bullet. The man was only 150 yards
from his target, and only the fact
that the bullet struck Mile’s belt
buckle saved the officer from death.
“I aimed at your heart,” the man
said, “but think the motion of your
horse carried the ball a little low.
After what has occurred during these
thirty-six years I am glad I missed
that shot.”
Although only 24 years old, Miles
had become famous in army cir
cles, and Grant, Meade, Burnside,
McClellan, Hoker, Hancock and every
other field officer under whom he
served urged his promotion. He con
tinued his record at the Wilderness,
and at Spottsylvania he led his men
with such bravery that he soon re
ceived his commission as Brigadier
General. He was later honored with
the revet of Major General, with the
citation, “for gallant and meritorious
service at Spottsylvania.”
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