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Comments on: Lt. Gen. Samuel Baldwin Marks Young https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Richard Knight https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-56719 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:48:30 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-56719 I apologize for the typos in the above post.

]]> By: Richard Knight https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-56718 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:46:12 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-56718 I appreciate all the good information that has been posted here. I had to laugh at Mr. Johnson’s comment the good fortune that his great-grandfather did not have to face young. My great-grandfather, John Hughes Knight, Jr., Capt., 3rd Va Cav, did have the “pleasure” (at Antietam), and it’s a wonder that I and my daughter, Elizabeth (above) are here to tell the story! The truth is that Young was a fighter, cut from the Ranald Mackenzie mold, an officer he admired very much (his only son, was named Ranald Mackenzie Young, and my great-grandfather kept the tradition going, naming one of his sons Ranald Mackenzie Knight; both boys died in their infancy). I don’t know what that device is that Young is wearing on his collar. The portrait I have of Young was painted from life in 1909, and it isn’t present. I can only surmise that it is a reference to his 90-day regiment, the 12th Penna, and its corps, but that is just a guess. My thanks for the info involving Young’s superintendency of Yellowstone, where today he is remembered as an early environmentalist. He knew that driving the wolves (and other predators) into extinction would exponentially increase the varmint population and the number of ungulates, who would strip the bark off of every aspen and overgraze. Thanks to all.

]]> By: Christopher Watkins https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-56135 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:34:49 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-56135 Daily I pass by LTG Young’s portrait in the Pentagon. What has interested me is the red clover award he wears on the collar of his uniform. I looked it up once (can’t find it now) and read that there were no records of it, meaning no one knew what the award meant, why he received it, etc. Does anyone have any information about that award?

]]> By: Wayne Johnson https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-49669 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:44:45 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-49669 Enjoyed the bio. I wrote a book about the creation of Grand Teton National Park, for which I am currently accepting rejections, and give Col. Young credit for the first legislative effort to protect the Jackson Hole area. He recommended in his annual report for 1897 that the valley south of Yellowstone be annexed into the park so that the Army could protect migrating elk in their winter range as well as their summer range from poacher. Sec. of Interior C.N. Bliss asked Young to submit a draft bill to accomplish the Yellowstone extension. The bill was submitted to Congress in 1898 and again in 1902 but congress failed to act. I’m glad my great grandfather (35th Mississippi Infantry, Company B) did not have to face Young.

]]> By: Rantings of a Civil War Historian » Threads, Part 2 https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-44825 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:13:17 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-44825 […] of the other officer to go from private of cavalry to chief of staff of the army can be found here). Chaffee retired in February 1906 and died on November 1, 1914. He was interred in Arlington […]

]]> By: Russell K. Brown https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-36766 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:18 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-36766 Your nice biography of Young omits his brief sojourn in Augusta, Georgia (Nov. 1898-March 1899) when he commanded Second Corps and Camp Mackenzie. Young had his HQ in the Bon Air resort hotel (that still exists as an apartment house). The Bon Air had a 9-hole golf course. I have an 1898 photo of him in uniform, downloaded from USAMHI, with his sword on his left hip and a golf club in his right hand. I am sure it was taken at the Bon Air.

A god brief writeup of Young’s military career with excellent color reproduction of his portrait appears in William Gardner Bell, Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-1983: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the U.S.Army’s Senior Officer (Washington: Center of Military History, 1983).

]]> By: Christopher J. Small https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-36522 Fri, 29 May 2009 18:56:47 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-36522 Concerning the post of Richard Knight above and a history of the 4th PA Cav, a gentleman named Dr. R Sauers7696 So. County Rd, S. Lake Nebagomon, WI 54849, was seeking information for a history of the 4th. He posted his SIO in Blue and Gray in 2001. I sent him information on my ancestor, 1st Lt Henry King RQM, 4th Pa Cav and told him i would buy the book when published. Never heard anything back.

]]> By: Elizabeth Knight https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-35896 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:26:04 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-35896 Thank you for this post. I’m also mystified as to why my great-great-great grandfather isn’t more well-known. I’ve got an original photographic portrait of him, his wife, and two of his daughters (one of whom is my g-g-grandmother as a small child) in an original wooden frame hanging in my home in Dallas. I’ve also been to the palatial home in Montana where he died. He has certainly not been forgotten in this family!

]]> By: Richard Knight https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-35893 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:16:53 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-35893 I appreciate this biographical sketch of Lt. Gen. Young, my great-great grandfather, very much. Today, he is all but forgotten. When I was a boy, in the early 50’s, he could still be found in one or two encylopedias, but that was then. Today, he isn’t even mentioned in the American Biography of American History. Why? He was the last commanding general of the army (for one week, succeeding Miles) and the first chief of staff. He co-founded the war college. His eldest child, Edith, married my great-grandfather, Brigadier Gen. John T. Knight, USMA Class of 1884. They met when Knight was posted to the 3rd Cav in 1884. I have a large, classical oil painting of the general, painted in 1909 from life, in my living room. The War College made inquiry, but we declined to part with it. It is a magnificent likeness. We did donate hundreds of letters to the War College, including quite a few between Young and TR. The family is thinking of hiring a professionial historian to write the definitive bio. BTW, there is no regimental history of the 4th Pa Cav. That is hard to understand. I am over 60 and am working this summer in Yellowstone. It is in the DNA. The Army controlled the national parks until 1916, and that is one reason why Young was in YNP two different times. He was a civilian the second time, but wore his uniform. I imagine he lobbied for the job because he and his second wife, Annie Dean, were living in Helena, Montana, at the time. Thank you!!!

]]> By: Fred Ray https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298&cpage=1#comment-35608 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:46:11 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=1298#comment-35608 <>

Thanks for the reference. He was up against Maj. Eugene Blackford and his sharpshooters, backed by O’Neal’s Alabamians. Blackford left a vivid account of the action, which I quoted at some length in my book. Nice to know who was on the other side.

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