Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Part 2 McCook Daily Gazette

30.11.09

Douglas MacArthur was a suitor who apparently was born to be a leader of men. His grandfather, Arthur MacArthur Sr., a jurist in Milwaukee, and onetime governor of Wisconsin (curtly), was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Arthur was a Democrat, but was politically skillful enough that he was appointed to this section by the Republican President, Ulysses S. Grant.

His son, Arthur MacArthur Jr., had joined the Union Army as a colleague of the Wisconsin 24th Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. Though but 19 years of age, he won the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Preacher Ridge, where he rallied his Regiment with the cry of "On Wisconsin" (the tune that McCook High School uses for its close with song). For his service in this battle, Arthur was promoted to the brevet rank of colonel. He was beloved by his men, who sang the praises of "The Boy Colonel."

Arthur MacArthur stayed in the Army after the war and was assigned to "The Indian Wars." In 1874,

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