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RECEIVED APPOINTMENT TO , WEST POINT BY WM MC- lt;KINLEY IN 1879. lt;Captain Elmore F. Taggart, former Orrville man, who became prominent . in past years in this county through his army and domestic conections, has ; been promoted to a colonel. A Dallas paper has the following interesting { item of army news:. I“Yesterday morning Elmore F. Taggart ranked as a lieutenant-col- 1 onel, assigned to the Twenty-eighth Infantry. Yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Colonel Taggart became a colonel.“Yesterday afternoon in his tent at camp at the fair grounds two suits for fatigue duty were draped from coat hangers. One suit sported a silver leaf of oak and the other the : silver eagle. The oak leaf signified the rank of lieutenant-colonel and the other notified the world that Colonel Taggart is now a full-fledged colonel.“In 1879 Congressman William McKinley of Ohio caused Elmore F. Taggart to be appointed to West Point Military Academy. Later Congressman McKinley became president of the United States. Cadet Taggart belonged to one of the old and respected I families of Orrville, O. He picked up matches and cleaned the streets at West Point just like other cadets, and then came his graduation day. He began life as a second lieutenant. In a few years he received his first pro-Then ne was made a captain. The! motion and became a first lieutenant. 1 outbreak between Spain and United States followed and Captain Taggart acquitted himself with valor and honor. He went through the brief war in Cuba and was then sent to the Philippine Islands.“Colonel Taggart was commissioned lieutenant-colonel Sept. 27, 1911.His commission making him colonel was signed by President Woodrow Wilson just four years later. On the document, which was received by Colonel Taggart yesterday from the war department at Washington, appeared the name of Henry S. Breckinridge, | assistant secretary of war, but signed “acting secretary of war.”“The oath of office and allegiance to the United States was administered by Major Carle C. Carnahan, acting judge advocate.“Colonel Taggart went with the Twenty-eighth Infantry at Galveston three years ago. Prior to that he had been stationed at Fort Snelling. When events at Vera Cruz demanded the attention of troops, Colonel Taggart shipped on transports for the Mexican city. Seven months of the three years with the Twenty-eighth was spent in Vera Cruz. He was in Mexico last year when other troops were in Dallas, and played a very important part in the rehabilitation of Vera Cruz.“Colonel Taggart is awaiting assignment to a regiment. At the present time he will remain with the Twenty-eighth Infantry, which is under the command of Colonel E. H. Plummer.”
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Orrville Courier Crescent
Orrville, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 26, 1915
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