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 [decorative delimiter] Class of 1873

Vol. III
p212 2482

(Born Ga.)

George S. Hoyle

(Ap'd Ga.)

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Born Canton, GA.​a

Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1869, to June 13, 1873, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Second Lieut., 1st Cavalry, June 13, 1873.

Served: on frontier duty at Ft. Klamath, Or., Oct. 14, 1873, to June 25, 1877 (leave of absence, May 21 to June 21, 1877), — Nez Percés Expedition, June 25 to Nov. 19, 1877, being engaged in the Battle of the Clearwater, Ida., July 12, and Skirmishes, July 13 and 17, 1877, — Ft. Klamath, Or., Nov. 19, 1877, to Sep. 7, 1878, — Ft. Walla Walla, Wash., Oct. 5, 1878, to Apr. 24, 1879, — Scouting on Yakima River, Wash., to

(First Lieut., 1st Cavalry, Apr. 29, 1879)

July, 1879, — and Ft. Colville, Wash., to June 23, 1880; on leave of absence,  p213 Aug. 2, 1880; as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at North Georgia Agricultural College, Sep. 27, 1880, to July 1, 1883; on frontier duty at Ft. Walla Walla, Wash., Oct. 10, 1883, to June 10, 1884, — Ft. Assinniboine, Mon. (absent sick, Nov. 18, 1884, to Apr. 25, 1886), to June 8, 1887, — Scouting, to Oct. 19, 1887, — and Ft. Assinniboine, Mon., to –––––.

Vol. IV
p234 [Supplement, Vol. IV: 1890‑1900]

(George Summers Hoyle)

Military History. —

(Captain of Cavalry, 1st Cavalry, Feb. 7, 1891)

Served: In Department of Arizona, May, 1892 to Oct. 15, 1895. — Commanding troop and post, San Carlos, Ariz., to May, 1895. — Recruiting service at Chicago, Ill., Oct. 1, 1892 to Oct. 1, 1894. — Department of Missouri, Nov., 1895 to April 18, 1898. — In the field, commanding troop, Spanish-American war, at Chickamauga, Ga.,º Lakeland, Fla., and Montauk, N. Y., from April 18 to Nov. 1, 1898. — Commanding troop and post, Fort Sill, Okla., Nov. 6 to Dec. 31, 1898. — Department of Dakota, Jan. 6, 1899 to –––––

Vol. V
p204 [Supplement, Vol. V: 1900‑1910]

Military History. — Served: In Department of Dakota Jan. 6, 1899 to Aug. 18, 1900. — on sick leave of absence to Feb. 2, 1901.

Major, U. S. A., Retired Feb. 2, 1901, disability in line of duty.

— On recruiting duty at Atlanta, Ga., March 15, 1905 to Oct. 2, 1906.

Died Oct. 2, 1906, at Atlanta, Ga.: Aged 58.

See Annual Association of Graduates, U. S. M. A., 1907, for an obituary notice, with a portrait.

Buried, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA.

Thayer's Note:

a Maj. Hoyle's birthplace is from his AOG obituary.

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