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Stephen Millerº Foote |
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Born LaSalle, MI.a Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1880, to June 15, 1884, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Second Lieut., 4th Artillery, June 15, 1884. Served: in garrison at Ft. Adams, R. I., Sep. 30, 1884, to Sep. 29, 1885, — Ft. Trumbull, Ct., to Aug. 27, 1886, — and Artillery School for Practice, Ft. Monroe, Va., to Sep. 1, 1888; on leave of absence, Oct. 1 to Dec. 14, 1888; in garrison at Ft. Adams, R. I., to Dec. 23, 1888; and on duty at the Artillery School for Practice, Ft. Monroe, Va., to –––––. First Lieut., 4th Artillery, June 17, 1889. Vol. IV Military History. — Served: As Assistant Instructor of Engineering at the Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., until March, 1891. — With Inter-Continental Railway Commission in Washington and Central America, March, 1891 to Aug., 1892. — With regiment, Fort Barrancas, Fla., Aug., 1892 to April, 1893. — At World's Fair, April to Oct., 1893. — With regiment at Fort McHenry, Md., ten days in October and at Fort Adams, R. I., Oct., 1893 to Sept., 1895. — Commandant of Cadets at Vermont Academy, Saxton's River, Vt., Sept., 1895 to Sept., 1897; Commandant of Cadets at New York Military Academy, Cornwall‑on‑Hudson, N. Y., Sept., 1897 to April, 1898. — With regiment at Fort Mott, N. J., April to May. — Aide-de‑camp to Major-General J. C. Breckinridge, U. S. Volunteers, Inspector-General U. S. Army, in the Santiago campaign, and at Chickamauga Park, Ga., and Lexington, Ky., May to Oct. — In Volunteer service, Oct., 1898 to –––––; Nominated to be Brevet p388 Captain, U. S. Army, for services in Santiago campaign. — Gold medalist, Military Service Institution, 1897. (Major, 3d U. S. Volunteer Engineers, Nov. 3, 1898) — With regiment at Lexington, Ky., Oct. to Nov., 1898; Macon, Ga., Nov., 1898 to Feb., 1899; Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Feb., 1899 to ––––– (Captain of Artillery, 6th Artillery, March 2, 1899) (Honorably mustered out of Volunteer Service, May 17, 1899) Vol. V Military History. — Served: At Angel Island, Cal., building detention camp, July to Nov., 1899; took command of Battery N, 6th Artillery at Honolulu, in Nov., 1899 and proceeded to Philippine Islands; in command of Battery N, 6th Artillery (afterward 70th Company, Coast Artillery Corps) Nov., 1899 to Oct., 1901; returned to the United States, in Dec., 1901; in command of 4th Battery, Field Artillery at Fort Myer, Va., from Dec., 1901 to March, 1906. (Major, Artillery Corps, Feb. 24, 1906) — In command of battalion field artillery, from March, 1906 to June, 1907, at Fort Douglas, Utah and Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.; in command of Jackson Barracks, La., and Artillery District of New Orleans, from June, 1907 to –––––. (Lieut.‑Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps, March 10, 1909) Vol. VI (Born Feb. 19, 1859) Military History. — Major, Artillery Corps, Feb. 24, 1906 At Jackson Bks., La., commanding post and Artillery District of New Orleans, June, 1907, to (Lieut.‑Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps, March 10, 1909) December, 1909; at Ft. Stevens, Oregon, commanding Artillery District of the Columbia, January, 1910, to August, 1911; at Fort Howard, Md., commanding Artillery District of Baltimore, September, 1911, to (Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps, Oct. 5, 1911) January, 1912; at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., taking Field Officer's Course at Army Service Schools, January to March, 1912; at Washington, D. C., on duty in War Department, May to August, 1912; student officer at Army War College, September, 1912, to June, 1913, when he was graduated; at Naval War College, July and August, 1913; at Washington, D. C., instructor in Army War College, September, 1913, to July, 1914; at Fort Winfield Scott, Cal., commanding Coast Defenses of San Francisco, August to October, 1914; at Fort Miley, Cal., commanding Pacific Coast Artillery District, November, 1914, to February, 1915; at Fort Winfield Scott, commanding Coast Defenses of San Francisco, March to September, 1915; at Charleston, S. C., commanding South Atlantic Coast Artillery District, October, 1915, to August, 1917; (Brigadier-General, National Army, Aug. 5, 1917) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and in France, commanding 163rd Field Artillery Brigade from its organization in August, 1917, to its muster out in January, 1919; with First Army, American Expeditionary Force, in Argonne Forest, Oct. 12 to 22, 1918; at Camp Dodge, Iowa, commanding Camp, January to March 12, 1919; at Camp Sherman, Ohio, commanding 158th Depot Brigade, March 13 to (Returned to Grade of Colonel, April 30, 1919) May 5, 1919; commanding Coast Defenses of Boston, Mass., May 15 to Oct. 30, 1919. Died, Oct. 30, 1919, at Fort Banks, Mass.: Aged 60. Portrait and obituary in Annual Report, Association of Graduates, for 1920.º Buried, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. |
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