Wallace Fitz Randolph Major General, United States Army |
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June 11, 1841, he served as Private, Company F, 17th Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry in the Civil War, April 18-June 28, 1861; he was appointed Second
Lieutenant, 5th United States Artillery, May 14, 1861; First Lieutenant,
March 1862; Captain, July 1866; Major, 3rd U.S. Artillery, April 1888;
Lieutenant Colonel, March 1898; Colonel, 1st U.S. Artillery, October 1899;
Chief of Artillery, United States Army, April 1901; Brigadier General,
February 1903; Major General, January 1904. He retired from active duty
on Janaury 23, 1904.
He served in many battles of the Civil War and was brevetted Captain, June 1863, for "gallantry in the defense of Winchester, Virginia;" brevetted Major May3, 1865 for "good conduct and meritorious service during the war." He was commissioned Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, May 1898 for the Spanish-American War and was mustered out of the volunteer service in November 1898. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1910 and was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. His gravesite is unique in that over it stands an artillery piece as a memorial, the only such piece in the entire cemetery. According to published reports, shortly before his death he said that he had spent his entire life behind an artillery piece and wouldn't mind spending eternity under one. RANDOLPH, ANNIE POWEL D/O WALLACE F DATE OF DEATH: 05/03/1949 DATE OF INTERMENT: 05/06/1949 BURIED AT: SECTION 1 SITE 131-B C. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY DAUGHTER OF WF RANDOLPH MAJ GEN USA RET RANDOLPH, KATHERINE J W/O WALLACE F
RANDOLPH, WALLACE F
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