Edwin Forbes Glenn

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Edwin Forbes Glenn as Major General, 1918

Edwin Forbes Glenn (born January 10, 1857 in North Carolina , † August 5, 1926 ) was an American general in the First World War.

Life

Glenn was born in North Carolina in 1857. He graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1877. 1890/1891 he received a law degree. He served as judge advocate , an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the US Army, in various locations. In 1896 he married Louise Smith, with whom he had four children. In 1898 and 1899, Glenn was a captain on a US Army Alaska expedition. He explored the interior of Alaska . He documented his explorations in the form of photographs, manuals and maps. A number of geographical objects, such as glaciers, mountains and rivers, were named by him after participants in the expedition. During his military career, Glenn was in the western United States, Mexico, and the Philippines.

Major Glenn was found guilty by a military court in 1902 for using "water treatment," a torture method similar to waterboarding , when his regiment was deployed against insurgents in the Philippines and sentenced to one month's exemption and US $ 50.

1912–1913 Glenn was commandant of Fort Harrison near Indianapolis. In September 1917, the 83rd Infantry Division ( American Expeditionary Forces ) was activated under the command of Glenn and brought across the Atlantic in June 1918. Parts of the division were deployed in various locations during World War I. In October 1919 the unit was deactivated. Glenn retired in December 1919 and died on August 5, 1926.

Honors

In Alaska, several geographic features have been named after Glenn, including the town of Glennallen and the Glenn Highway . The Camp Edwin F. Glenn is a National Historic District in Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana.

literature

  • Edwin F. Glenn: Hand-book of international law , 1895.
  • Edwin F. Glenn: Reports of explorations in the territory of Alaska (Cooks inlet, Sushitna, Copper, and Tanana rivers) , 1898.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Glenn, Edwin F. (Edwin Forbes), 1857-1926 . SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Alaska's Digital Archives: Edwin F. Glenn journal, 1898. . University of Alaska Anchorage. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. ^ Louise Barnett: Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army , Rouledge, 2010, ISBN 0203861574 , chapter "The Water Cure Trials"
personal data
SURNAME Glenn, Edwin Forbes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American general in World War I.
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1926