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General Randall S. Mcftcnssie, the'offioer who followed and routed the band of Kick-apoos on Mexican soil, is the son of Commodore McKenzie, of the United Slates Navy, His father’s name, originally, was Slid611, but he had it changed to McKenzie, to please a relative of that name and inherit a fortune. He was a brother of the late John Slidell, of New Orleans, captured on the Trent as a Confederate Commissioner, Commodore McKenzie will be particularly remembered by, his having hung, thirty years ago, at. the yard-arm of his'vessel, the brig Somers, a midshipman, the son of the then Secretary of War, John C. Spencer, together with Coxswain Cromwell and a private sailor, for mutiny.- Randall Slidell McKenzie graduated at West ?oiut, in 1862, and entered the army as tecond lieutenant of engi noers. He rose rapidly, and at the close of the war, he hold the rank of brevet Major-Ceneral of volunteers, and Captain of Engineers in the regular army. He was made a Colonel and sent to Texas, in command of the Forty-first Regiment of Infantry, colored, where he has been operating Btnee in defence of the border. His mid into Mex-1 ieohas made him famous. Col. McKenzie’s mother is now, and has for some time pa^t been, a resident of Aiken.
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Aiken Tribune
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Sat, Jun 07, 1873
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