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Peyton C. March  1888

Cullum No. 3247-1888 | 4/13/1955 | Died in Washington, D. C.
Interment not reported to WPAOG

 


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<em>Peyton Conway March</em>&nbsp;was born in Easton, Pennsylvania on 27 December 1864, one of a family of seven children born to Francis Andrew and Mildred Stone March. His father was Professor of English at Lafayette College, well known and respected in academic and learned circles, and the author of the March Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language. In this erudite but active atmosphere, Peyton was reared and he entered Lafayette College and graduated high in his class with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. From Lafayette, he entered the United States Military Academy, graduating with the Class of 1888.</p>
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On the 4th of July 1891, he married Josephine Smith Cunningham, who died on 18 November 1904, after having borne him five children. Only two survive, Mildred Millihin and Josephine Mary Swing. On the 25th of August 1923, in London, General March married Cora V. McEntee of New York, who shared his life from then until his death thirty-two years later.</p>
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While at Lafayette, Peyton March played first base on the baseball team, winning his letter and, according to some, his nickname of &ldquo;Old Turf&rdquo; Others tell that the nickname was given him by his teammates on the West Point football team where he played at end. Whatever the facts, it is characteristic of the man that few knew he had a nickname, and fewer still ever used it. While a member of the Lafayette football team, he established an intercollegiate record for distance in the drop kick which was to stand unbroken for more than thirty years.</p>
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Throughout his life he maintained his lively interest in sports, playing golf, tennis, and, when he was past forty and a major, shortstop on his officers&rsquo; baseball team. He encouraged and supported polo and once remarked that officers could get &ldquo;much essential education through that game&rdquo;. During his later years, one of his greatest pleasures was to follow the big league games avidly and authoritatively. He had an amazing memory for people and events, and I remember when he was eighty-five, a few of us were gathered at his home and were talking baseball. In particular, three of us were discussing an old-timer &ldquo;third baseman of the Chicago team&rdquo; who had been a favorite. Though not of our group, General March overheard the conversation, interrupted, and remarked &ldquo;He was a fine player, but he played for Detroit, not Chicago&rdquo;; and he was correct. Only competitive sports held interest for him, however, and once when his wife invited him to accompany his son-in-law on a hunting trip &ldquo;for the sport of it&rdquo;, he firmly declined, saying &ldquo;I only shoot at things that can shoot back&rdquo;.</p>
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Peyton March graduated from the Military Academy in 1888 to be commissioned an additional lieutenant of artillery. He advanced through all the grades to that of major general on 5 August 1917 and general on 20 May 1918. He reverted to major general on 1 July 1920 and was retired from active service on the first of November 1921. On 21 June 1930, he was advanced to full general, retired.</p>
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The military career and the numerous honors conferred on him are admirably detailed in General Orders 26 of the Department of the Army, dated 14 April 1955, in which the Chief of Staff of the Army announced with deep regret his death which occurred at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington on the afternoon of the 13th of April 1955. With him at his side when death came, as she had been for many years, was his beloved wife, Cora.</p>
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Many honors came to him over the long span of his life, but one of which he was particularly proud was his selection as a first lieutenant, to command the Astor Battery, the mountain artillery unit raised, equipped, and offered to the government by Colonel John Jacob Astor for service in the Philippines. In June of 1898, he sailed for the Philippines with this battery and moved through various commands, serving with distinction in numerous engagements. On 5 December 1899, he received the surrender of General Venancio Concepcion, Chief of Staff to Aguinaldo, at Cayan.</p>
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In June of 1903, he was one of the small number of officers called to Washington as a member of the first War Department General Staff. The small size of the General Staff to Aguinaldo, at Cayan, later, he was selected as one of three official observers of the Russo-Japanese war, accompanying the Japanese Army in Manchuria.</p>
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In March of 1918, General March was brought back to this country from his post as commander of the artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France and detailed as Acting Chief of Staff, United States Army. On 20 May 1918, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army and, under his direction, the Army successfully completed the first World War, and was converted to peacetime status. During this time, &ldquo;the keynote of his administration&rdquo;, to use his own words, was &ldquo;to get men to France&rdquo;, and he amazed the Germans and Allies by ferrying nearly two million men across. Again, to use his own words, &ldquo;swimming was about the only means we did not use&rdquo;.</p>
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He was stern and outspoken, his orders were very concise, and he expected and appreciated work well done. He was a loyal man of highest principles which he steadfastly refused to compromise, no matter what the pressure, and his whole life of ninety years represented that of a great soldier and a great American. He lived to see proven and confirmed many of the principles for which he staunchly stood, so often in the face of bitter opposition and, indeed, recrimination. Among his accomplishments which have stood the test of time, these notable ones were instituted immediately after he became Chief of Staff: On the 7th of August 1918, he issued an order consolidating all the land forces into one Army, The United States Army. Prior to this time, there existed the Regular Army, the National Guard, and the National Army, each wearing distinctively different insignia; he organized and established Replacement Training Camps for furnishing combat arms replacements to the overseas command, thus eliminating the undesirable previous practice of draining replacements from organized divisions; by directive, he separated the Air Corps from the Signal Corps, where it had been a subsidiary, and made it a separate fighting arm; and, first and foremost, he reorganized the General Staff into an organization which could cope with the complexities of war which, for the first time, required the mobilization of all the resources of the nation. Speaking of this reorganization, an editorial in the Star-Presidian, a soldiers&rsquo; paper, calls him the &ldquo;father of the modern Army&rdquo;, and, in a letter of sympathy to General March&rsquo;s family, the Honorable Bernard Baruch chose to emphasize this awareness of the changed character of war by writing: &ldquo;I also wish to express my respect and admiration for him and his conduct as Chief of Staff. His was a difficult task in a new phase of war&mdash;a worldwide one. He kept troops, munitions and food moving. Once when told there were not sufficient rail transportation to move the troops to the front, he said &lsquo;what have they got feet for?&rsquo; &ldquo;They went forward. He was the right man in the right place.&rdquo;</p>
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Though his austere presence discouraged familiarity, and none could claim intimacy with him, he inspired respect and confidence always and devotion often. At his death, a multitude of expressions attested to this, but none is more eloquent than that of the Corpsman who cared for him the last year of his life. Writing in condolence to Mrs. March, Private First Class Wilbur M. Hargreaves of Holyoke, Colorado expressed himself, in part, as follows: &ldquo;I am thankful, Mrs. March, that God so ordered my steps that in His providence I had the honor and privilege of serving the general during the closing twilight hours of his life&rdquo;. From an earlier day, William Lanier of Hempstead, New York wrote &ldquo;I was the first bandleader of his first regiment, the 8th Field Artillery, and I consider myself part and parcel of his military family who loved him so much. He was very strict, very fair and so, so kind. No one knows how deep I feel the passing on to his &ldquo;Glorious Reward&rdquo; of the&nbsp;<em>Greatest Soldier</em>&nbsp;of our time. I say this without reservation.&rdquo;</p>
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&ldquo;The Thanks of Congress,&rdquo; were tendered to General March by the Congress of the United States on 27 July 1953, and he received them from President Eisenhower in The White House. After his death, he was eulogized in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dewey Short and in the Senate of the United States by the Honorable Gordon Allott of Colorado. Tributes to him as a great soldier and man were paid publicly and privately by many including the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Staff of the Army. General of the Army George C. Marshall, and the Ambassador of France, who expressed the deep appreciation of his countrymen for the prominent part played by the General in the First World War.</p>
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General Peyton Conway March was laid to rest among heroes in Arlington Cemetery on Monday, the I8th of April. A mile-long cortege escorted his remains from downtown Washington, and included therein was a battalion of cadets from the United States Military Academy which he loved so much. Distinguished military, civilian, and foreign dignitaries attended the ceremonies, as well as representatives from the Society of the Cincinnati, the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, to all of which he belonged. On 14 May, the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, in congress assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, formally adopted a resolution honoring the memory of General March.</p>
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Peyton March lived by a strict code, and he measured others by that code. His long life, spanning so much of the country&rsquo;s history, to which his own contribution was great, stands as an example of all that is best in that country&rsquo;s military. He did what he had to with the means at hand, never asking for more or for help, and. as he said in the preface of his book, he told &ldquo;the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth&rdquo;, and let the record stand at that.</p>
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Upon his relief as Chief of Staff, he toured Europe to inspect our forces there, and the attention and courtesies paid him demonstrated the credit which was given him in Europe for the part he played in victory. Upon learning he was in Europe, President Von Hindenburg requested that General March visit him to relate the details of the operations by which he had shipped over a million American troops to Europe, to the incredible amazement of the Germans. General March did so and at the conclusion of the visit, was conducted over the battlefields of the Eastern Front for about two weeks by the President, himself, to General March&rsquo;s great enjoyment.</p>
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Of all the men with whom General March was associated during his life, the one best qualified to judge his ability and his accomplishments in his chosen field was Newton D. Baker, the great wartime Secretary of War for Woodrow Wilson, under whom General March served as Chief of Staff. It seems fitting to close this account of his life with Mr. Baker&rsquo;s estimate of the General. It appears in the front of a copy of Frederick Palmer&rsquo;s book. &ldquo;NEWTON D. BAKER&rdquo; which Mr. Baker sent to General March, and it says: &ldquo;To General Peyton C. March, whose work in the War Department was of incalculable value to his country and mankind, from his affectionate and admiring associate, Newton D. Baker.&rdquo;</p>
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<em>&mdash;B. F. Browne, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired) U.S.M.A. 1901</em></p>

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