2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
RANDOLFPH, Wallace Fitz (1841-1910) he served as Private, Company F, 17th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, April 18-June 28, 1861; he was appointed Second Lieutenant, 5th United States Artillery, May 14, 1861; First Lieutenant, March 1862; Captain, July 1866; Major, 3rd U.S. Artillery, April 1888; Lieutenant Colonel, March 1898; Colonel, 1st U.S. Artillery, October 1899; Chief of Artillery, United States Army, April 1901; Brigadier General, February 1903; Major General, January 1904. He retired from active duty on Janaury 23, 1904. He served in many battles of the Civil War and was brevetted Captain, June 1863, for "gallantry in the defense of Winchester, Virginia;" brevetted Major May3, 1865 for "good conduct and meritorious service during the war." He was commissioned Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, May 1898 for the Spanish-American War and was mustered out of the volunteer service in November 1898. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1910 and was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. His gravesite is unique in that over it stands an artillery piece as a memorial, the only such piece in the entire cemetery. According to published reports, shortly before his death he said that he had spent his entire life behind an artillery piece and wouldn't mind spending eternity under one. Group of fourteen (14) letters, 44 pages total, octavo, dated mostly 1898-1901, written by General Randolph to his wife, in five of these letters, he is in Cuba, with the Rough Riders at Santiago, some with good content in which he says the Rough Riders got pretty badly hit in teh first fight, and casualties in his company. In some of the other letters he writes as US Army Chief of Artillery.
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