University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Captain (Jverfon was an accomjilished o entleman and a thoroxigh soldier. He practically reorCTanizeil the military discipline at the College, and his jjohcy, though strict, was soon recognized by the cadets as lair, and the effects of his influence are even yet apparent in the cadet battalion. He directed the military encampments held by our battalion, in i8g6 and 1S97, both of which he conducted with signal success and with marked bcnclit to the discipline of the cadet corps. No cadet came within the sphere of Capt. Overton ' s influence without becoming imbued with that sense of honor and bravery which goes to make a good soldier and a capable officer; when war was declared with Spain, a large number of our cadets enlisted, and were soon promoted for their excellent military training. Capt. Overton scorned a lie and all subterfuge, and his fearless bravery, which oftentimes approached reck- less daring, was an inspiration to those who were with him or under his command. As this hero lies dead, shrouded in his country ' s flag, he is mourned by none more sincerely than his former oolleagues and students of the Agricultural College of Maryland. Henry T. Harrison, Sec ' t. of Faculty.

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Cdwptd in Cloug ' h Overton. ! e !(« CAPTAIN CLOUGH OVERTON, of the Fiftecntli Cavalry, who was killed on May 14th hy being cut to ])icces hy the Philipjiine insurgents at Sucatlan, was a native of Indiana but was ajiijointed to West Point from Texas. After gradu- ation he was recommended for the Artillery Init selected the Cavalry and was assigned to the Fouitli Cavalry, with which regiment he w as very ]i()])u- lar. While stationed in Aiizona he made a special study of heliograiihic signaling and irrigation. In 1893 he organized the relief expedition which rescued the Carlin party of hunters who were lost in the snows of Idaho. For this he received recommendation in orders. Later he was commandant at the Maryland Agricultural College, but gave up this detail to join his regi- ment in the Cuban campaign. He led a trooj) at San Juan, in Wheeler ' .s brigade, and was recommended for brevet for bravery m action. Capt. Overton was of a literary disposition, and his short stories of Mexican frontier life, i)ubHshed througliout the country, attracted consideralile attention. James Gordon Bennett thought so well of his st de that he wanted him to act as war correspondent to the Herald in the Chinese-Japanese war. He had man)- friends in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, as w-ell as Texas and California, ami throughout the army. Capt. Overton came of good fighting stock. His father, a gallant Confederate Cavalr nian, led the charge at Fort Donelson. He was from Kentucky, and raised and ei|uippeil, at his own exjjcnse, the Twelfth Ken- tucky Cavalry, the first troop that ever marched out of that state to hght for the Confederacy. The members of the faculty of the Maryland Agricultural College, nearly all of whom were associated with Capt. Overton during the period of his detail as Commandant at the College from j Sq5 to i8g8, were much shocked and grie ' eil to hear of his untimelv death.

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