Campaigns, with pack-trains and Indian scouts, against the Sioux and Cheyennes of the plains, 1875–1878; subdues them and thereafter devotes his available time to hunting and exploration. In 1882 is reassigned to the Department of Arizona, where the Apaches are unruly again. Fails to succeed in holding Geronimo, the Apache war leader; is relieved at his own request, April, 1886, and reassigned to the command of the Department of the Platte. Appointed major-general, April, 1888, and assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Missouri, with headquarters in Chicago. Dies March 21, 1890, in his sixty-second year, at Chicago. Interred with high honors at Oakland, Maryland, pending the transfer of the remains, soon thereafter, to the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. MAJOR-GEN. OLIVER OTIS HOWARD A man distinguished for his deep religious spirit and his benevolence, as well for his bravery upon the field of battle and his friendship with the Indians. Born at Leeds, Maine, November 8, 1830. Graduates at Bowdoin College, Maine, 1850. Graduates at West Point Military Academy, 1854, No. 4 in his class. Assigned as second lieutenant of ordnance at Watervliet Arsenal. Assigned to command of the Kennebec Arsenal, 1855. In 1856 transferred to Watervliet again. December, 1856, ordered to the Seminole Indian campaign in Florida. First lieutenant and chief of ordnance, Department of Florida, 1857. Assistant professor of mathematics at West Point, 1857–1861. Expected to resign from the army to enter the ministry, but in June, 1861, accepts the colonelcy of the Third Maine Volunteer Infantry. Commands a brigade at the battle of Bull Run. Brigadier-general of Volunteers, September, 1861. Loses his right arm, from two wounds, at the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, June, 1862. Major-general of Volunteers, November, 1862. Commands an army division at the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. Commands an army corps at the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, and elsewhere, and has the right wing in Sherman’s march to the sea. Thanked by Congress, January, 1864, for services at Gettysburg. Brigadier-general in the regular army, December, 1864. Brevetted major-general in the regular army, March, 1865, for gallantry. Chief of the Freedman’s Bureau, at Washington, for the education and care of the negroes and refugees, 1865–1874. Sent by President Grant to New Mexico and Arizona, as special peace commissioner to treat with the Indians, 1872, and wins the trust and love of the various tribes. Assigned to the command of the Department of the Columbia, August, 1874. Campaigns against the Nez Percés of Chief Joseph, 1877. Campaigns against the Bannocks and Pai-Utes, 1878. Superintendent of West Point Military Academy, 1880–1882. Commands the Department of the Platte, 1882–1886. Major-general, March, 1886, and appointed to the command of the Division of the Pacific.