Joseph Haddox Dorst Colonel, United States Army |
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in Kentucky, Colonel Dorst graduated from the United States Military Academy
in the Class of 1873. He then served on Frontier duty in the Indian
Wars from 1873 to 1883. He was then Aide-de-Camp to General Mackenzie
in 1883 and 1884. He then served in the Tactical Department at West
Point from 1887 to 1890 and as Military Attache to Vienna, Austria, from
1894 to 1897. In 1898, he served as an observer with the Greek Army
during the Greco-Turkish War. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of United
States Volunteers in 1898 and served in that year and in 1899 at Santiago
de Cuba in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Insurrection.
He retired in 1911 as a Colonel in the Regular United States Army.
Colonel Dorst died in Virginia on 11 January
1916 at the age of 63 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington
National Cemetery.
Joseph Haddox Dorst of Kentucky Appointed from Indiana, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 1 September 1869 (9) Second Lieutenant, 4th United States Cavalry, 13 June 1873 First Lieutenant, 20 March 1879 Regimental Adjutant, 17 May 1878 to 1 January 1883 Captain, 2 March 1885 Lieutenant Colonel, Adjutant General of Volunteers, 9 May 1898 Honorably Discharged From Volunteer Service, 12 May 1899 Colonel, 45th U. S. Volunteer Infantry, 17 August 1899 Honorably Discharged From Volunteer Service, 3 June 1901 Major, 2nd United States Cavalry, 7 November 1898 Assigned to the Inspector General's Department, 28 February 1901 Lieutenant Colonel, 12th United States Cavalry, 26 June 1901 Colonel, 3rd United States Cavalry 15 April 1903 WARRENTON, Virginia, January 11, 1916 - Colonel Joseph H. Dorst, U.S.A., retired, a veteran of Indian Campaigns, the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, died at his home near here today from apoplexy. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemtery. Colonel Dorst was 63 years old and a native
of Louisville, Kentucky. He retired from the Army in 1911 after forty years'
service.
DORST, JOSEPH H
Posted: 22 December 2001 Updated: 19 January 2002 Updated: 4 September 2004 Updated: 2 Sepember 2007 |
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