Samuel Baldwin Marks Young

Samuel Baldwin Marks Young

Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (born January 9, 1840 in Pittsburgh , Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , † September 1, 1924 in Helena , Lewis and Clark County , Montana ) was an American Lieutenant General in the US Army , who served between 1903 and 1904 first Chief of Staff of the Army ( Chief of Staff of the Army ) was.

Life

Civil War

Young, the fifth of seven children of John Young and his wife Hannah Phillips Scott Young, came shortly after the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate States Army (CSA) on 12 April 1861 as Corporal (Private) voluntarily on 25 April 1861 K Company of the 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry of the US Army in the Civil War . He took guard and garrison duty in Maryland for the next three months before the regiment was decommissioned in August 1861. He then participated in recruitment for the newly formed 4th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry 4th) part and was already on 6 September 1861 Hauptmann (Captain) transported and company commander . After various field and combat missions he was promoted to major on September 20, 1862 and on May 1, 1864 lieutenant colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) . He was last on June 25, 1864 Colonel (Colonel) promoted and appointed commander of the (4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry) appointed. He took part with his unit in the siege of Petersburg (June 9, 1864 to March 25, 1865) and in the battle of Boydton Plank Road (October 27-28 , 1864). Because of his brave merits and military performance, he was awarded the brevet rank of brigadier general on April 9, 1865 . Together with his regiment, he was retired from the volunteer army on July 1, 1865 after the end of the Civil War.

Regular Army and Chief of Staff of the Army

Almost a year after the war joined Young on May 11, 1866 as lieutenant (First Lieutenant) in the regular US Army adopted and initially served in the 11th Cavalry Regiment (11th US Regular Infantry) . Two months later he was on 28 July 1866. Hauptmann (Captain) transported and the 8th Cavalry Regiment (8th US Cavalry Regular) was added. It was not until 17 years later was made on April 2, 1883 was promoted to Major , and on 16 August 1892, Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) . On 19 June 1897 he was appointed Colonel (Colonel) promoted and participated in the American Spanish War part. There he was appointed Brigadier General on May 4, 1898, and Major General of the Volunteer Forces on July 8, 1898 . First he was in July 1898 commander of an infantry division at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba and later military governor of Luzon during the Philippine-American War .

On January 2, 1900, Young was promoted to Brigadier General (Brigadier General) and on February 2, 1901 to Major General (Major General) of the regular US Army and was as such from February 1901 to March 1902 commander of the California Military District in the Garrison Presidio . At the same time he became president of the War College Board in November 1901 . After the reorganization of the US Army, he was on August 8, 1903 Lieutenant General (Lieutenant General) transported and for the first Chief of the General Staff of the Army on August 15, 1903 ( Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) appointed. On January 8, 1904, he resigned and retired from active military service, whereupon Lieutenant General Adna Chaffee succeeded him on January 9, 1904. He was Governor of the Soldier's Home in Washington, DC from 1910 to 1920

Young was married to Margaret Jane McFadden Young from 1861 until her death in 1892. From this marriage the children Edith Young Knight, Burton Young Read, Lillian Young Cox, Marjorie Young Gibbon, Ronald Mackenzie Young and Elizabeth Wright Young Hannay were born. His daughter, Burton Young Read, was married to Major General George Windle Read and was the mother of Lieutenant General George Windle Read Jr. , who was in command of the Second US Army between 1957 and 1960 . His daughter Marjorie Young Gibbon was married to a nephew of John Gibbon and was the mother of John Heysham Gibbon , the inventor of the heart-lung machine . In his second marriage, Samuel Baldwin married Marks Young Anna Dean Young, with whom he was married until his death. After his death he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of Arlington National Cemetery

• Samuel Baldwin Marks Young in the database of Find a Grave (English)