The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall

Chronology

Chronology March 4, 1867 Born, Blount’s Ferry, FL 1882–1885 Attended Porter Military Academy, Charleston, SC 1885–1888 Taught school in Florida 1888–1892 Attended U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 1892–1893 Second lieutenant, First Infantry, Benicia Barracks, CA 1893–1896 Fifth Artillery, Presidio of San Francisco, CA 1896–1898 Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor 1898 Aide-de-camp to commanding general, Department of the Gulf 1899–1900 First lieutenant, Fifth Artillery, in action against insurgents in the Philippine Islands 1900–1901 In action with the China Relief Expedition, Peking 1901 Marries Laura Mordecai, daughter of Brigadier General Alfred Mordecai, Ordnance Department 1901–1902 Captain, 106th Company Coast Artillery, Fort Walla Walla, WA 1901–1903 Post commander at Fort Lawton, WA; Camp Skagway, AK; Fort William H. Seward, AK; and Fort Flagler, WA 1903–1905 Third Battery Field Artillery at Camp George H. Thomas, GA, and Fort Myer, VA 1905–1911 Senior instructor of artillery tactics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY xii Chronology 1907 Assigned to Third Artillery, then transferred to the Second Field Artillery 1911 Promoted to major, Third Field Artillery, and given command of a field artillery battalion with the Maneuver Division, San Antonio, TX 1911–1914 Commanding battalion with Third Field Artillery at Fort Myer, VA 1914–1917 Assistant to chief of the Militia Bureau and responsible for national guard field artillery training 1916–1917 Promoted to lieutenant colonel, July 1, 1916; promoted to colonel, May 15, 1917; promoted to brigadier general, August 5, 1917 1917 Member of the Baker Mission, a military mission to investigate the organization of British and French armies in Europe 1917–1918 Commanding officer, Sixty-seventh Field Artillery Brigade, Forty-second Division (September 5–December 22, 1917); then commanding officer, First Field Artillery Brigade, First Division (December 23, 1917–July 17, 1918) 1918 Promoted to major general, June 26, 1918 1918–1919 Commanding general, First Division (July 15–October 12, 1918); then commanding general, Fifth Corps (October 12, 1918– February 12, 1919) 1919 Commanding general, Ninth Corps (February 28–April 16, 1919); commanding general, Fourth Corps (May 2–June 22, 1919); member, Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry on Fiume, Italy (July 8–August 14, 1919); member, American Commission to Negotiate Peace (August 14–31, 1919) 1919–1921 Commanding general, First Division (September 30, 1919–June 30, 1921), at Chronology xiii Camp Dix, NJ, and Camp Zachary Taylor, KY 1921–1924 Commanding general, Hawaiian Department (August 5, 1921–October 5, 1924) 1924–1925 Commanding general, Eighth Corps Area, Fort Sam Houston, TX (October 5, 1924–January 16, 1925) 1925–1926 Commanding general, Second Corps Area, Governor’s Island, NY (January 16, 1925–November 20, 1926) 1926–1930 Chief of staff, U.S. Army (November 21, 1926–November 20, 1930) 1929 Promoted to general, U.S. Army, February 23, 1929 1931 Retired, March 31, 1931 1931–1953 President, the Citadel, Charleston, SC (retired June 30, 1953) May 14, 1955 Died at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC ...