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TWO HEW LIEUTENANTGENERALS The Presidents recommendation that Major Geaeral Hunter Liggett and Robert L Bullard be promoted to the rank of LieuteuantGencral will undoubtedly be confirmed by the Senate at once The promotions not only are rewards to two capa ¬ ble soldiers but are necessary for the army Us gttt and Bullard are respectively commanders of tbe First and Second Field Armies of the United States in France and the proper rank for the commander o an American field army is the LieutenantGeneralship 1ershing who holds the highest of our military titles General commands tlie croup of armiei With all its wars the United States has not been profligate in the eranting of the rank of either General or LieutenantGeneral We have hd but six Generals Washington Grant Sher icau Sheridan Penning and March Taskcr H Bliss tlie American representative in the Allied War Council is a General by brevet Our Lieu ¬ tenantGenerals have been Washington Scott Grant Sherman Sheridan Schofield Miles Young Chaffee Bates Corbin and MacArthur Of these only Nelson A Miles Samuel B M Young slid John C Kates are still livins all three uow close to tlie age of eighty years yearsGrant Grant was the only soldier of tlie civil war who was honored witli the rank of LicutennntGeneral before the end of the struggle Sherman gained his third star when Grant became General in 1806 and Sheridan was made a LieutenantGeneral when Sherman upon Grants arrival at the White House became a full General Sheridan was LieutenantGeneral for nearly twenty years and he bore the rank when he watched the battle of Grnvelotte with the German staff but it was not until June 1 1888 two months before his death that his country voted to elevate him to tlie rank that had been enjoyed by Washington Grant and Sherninn SherninnIt It is evident from the history of the bestowal of the rank of lieutenantgeneral that in this country it has not been a necessity of war The rank lias been used to elevate commanding generals and chiefs of staff lint now with the largest force this country has ever put in tlie field we have not merely an army but armies two now aud as many more in future us that future makes neces ¬ sary A rank higher than that of majorgeneral is manifestly necessary for the commander of a field army of hundreds of thousands of men menMajorGeneral MajorGeneral Liggett who is a veteran of Cuba and the Philippines and a former president of the War College has been in active fighting in Europe since last March when he was placed in command of tlie First Corps It l eeame evident early in the sunnner that the First Army would fall to his com ¬ mand as soon as it was organized for by June lie was directing two complete American divisions under French commanders It was Liggutts First Army that Foch used with such telling force north ¬ west of Verdun in the September smash smashMajorGeneral MajorGeneral Robert Lee Bullard took the place of General Sibert who commanded the first Ameri ¬ can troops that entered the trendies Bullard like Liggett is a veteran of Cuba and the Philip ¬ pines and he was governor of Lanao in 11021904 He is the quite human man who once remarked that a professorship established at West Point for the study of men and the best means of handling them would pay the army as well as the present sys ¬ tem of target practice Evidently Bullard has not neglected the study of men else we would not find him in command of one of the great American field armies Xew York Sun
