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Ill iSSS he accniiijiaiiiod liis Ke. iiMciil in llio Imit cst consecutive march in liiis cc)untr — from I ' cxas to Xorlh Dakota — J.ooo miles, and takin.i; four months. His station was Fort Vales. Xortii Dakota, wher e he was on (hUy until July. i8yo, when failini;- health caused him to i;o on sick leave, and he was retired from activt dut April .:o, iScn, for Injuries recei ' ed in line of iluty, settling- at I ' rhana, ( )liio. Here he went into the iiiaiuifacturiii!.i- husiness until July, 1900, when the War Departineiit detailed him as Instructor of .Military Science and Tactics at the .Xorth Carolina Collei e of At riculture and Mechanic .Arts, at West Raleiijh, X. C. where he is still on duty. VIEW FROM ATHLETIC FIELD
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Capt. Frederick E. Phelps United States Army i Retired) VPTAIX Fkl-.DI-.RICK E. I ' HKl.l ' S. U. S. Army, was born at Saint Mary ' s, Ohio, October 8, 1847. His father was a lawyer, but owned and worked a larije fami near tlie town, and Captain Phelps early learned to work. In the winter he attended the village school. In 1865. he received an appointment as Cadet at the United States Military A.cademy at ' est Point, graduating June 15. 1870. number thirty-seven in a class of fifty-eight. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 8th U. S. Cavalry, to date from June 15. 1870, and after spending his graduation leave of three months at home, joined his troop at Fort Craig, Xew Mexico, where he served until July. 1871. when he was transferred to Fort Bayard. Xew Mexico, where he served until December. 1875. with one leave of absence (sick) in 1874. From December. 1875, to June. 1876. he was employed in building the U. S. Military Telegraph Line from Sante Fe, New Mexico, to San Diego. Cal. — the first line built south of Sante Fe. or in Arizona. His regiment had meantime been transferred to Texas, where he joined it and served with it from i87(i to 1888. excc])! 1884 to 1887, when he was on duty at the A. and M. College of Kentucky, at Lexington. K3-. During this time he served at Forts Brown. Ringgold, Mcintosh. Clark. Del Rio and Davis — all forts along the Rio Grande, and constantly engaged in scout- ing and patrolling the country against Indians and Mexican marauders. He was engaged in fights with the Apache Indians at Mount Graham and Horse Shoe Cannons, Arizona, in August, 1871. and at Saragossa and Sierra Camien mountains, Old Mexico, in 1877 and 1878. In 1879. he was promoted First Lieutenant. 8th Cavalry, after nearly nine years service as Second Lieutenant, and. finally, was promoted Captain 8th Cav- alry, September, 1889, after nineteen years service as a Lieutenant.
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