Beverly Allen Read Colonel, United States Army |
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Appointed from Texas, Cadet, US Military Academy, 16 June 1888 to 29 June 1889 Captain, Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, 17 May 1898 Honorably discharged from the volunteer service, 17 May 1898 Captain, 38th US Volunteer Infantry, 17 August 1899 Honorably Mustered out of the volunteer service, 30 June 1901 First Lieutenant, 6 US Cavalry, 2 February 1901 Beverly Allen Read had entered West Point with the class of 1892. He did not graduate, but after participating in the Spanish-American War as a Captain of U.S. Volunteers he was commissioned in the Cavalry in 1901. Tranferring to the Judge Advocate General Department
in 1909, he rose to the grade of Colonel in France. During the war he was
cited twice for gallantry in action. He retired in 1922 and died
six years later in Washington, D.C.
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