COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery

THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL
Volume 65 DECEMBER, 1926
Appointment of Chief of Staff
Number 6
THE Secretary of War announces the selection of Major General
Charles Pelot Summerall as Chief of Staff, succeeding Major
General John L., Hines.
Major General Charles P. Summerall was born near Lake City, Fla.,
March 4, 1867. In 1888 he entered the U. S. Military Academy. Upon
graduation in 1892, he joined the First Infantry and was assigned to
Benicia Barracks, California. In 1893 he transferred to the Fifth Artillery
at the Presidio of San Francisco. In 1896 General Summerall went
with his battery to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., where he remained until 1898.
In April, 1898, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Major General William
Montrose Grah~m and later to Brigadier General A. C. M. Pennington,
who commanded the Department of the Gulf with headquarters
at Atlanta, Georgia. Upon the outbreak of the insurrection in the
Philippines he joined the Fifth Artillery, sailed for Manila, and took
part in various expeditions against the insurgents the following year.
He was recommended to Congress for brevet in 1902.
He took part in the Boxer Campaign with Reilly's battery in the
assault of the Chinese positions at Peitsang and Yangtsun. During the
assault and capture of the Imperial City and the Forbidden City, his
gnns accompanied the storming troops. He was recommended to be a
brevet major by the Commanding General of the American Forces. In
1901 he returned to the United States and was stationed at Fort Walla
Walla, Washington, where he was promoted captain. In 1902 he was
ordered to Alaska where he located and planned the construction of
Fort William H. Seward. In 1903 he proceeded to Chickamauga Park,
Georgia, for duty. In 1905 he was ordered to the U. S. Military
Academy where he remained until 1911, when he was promoted to
major and assigned to command of a battalion of the Third Field Artillery
at San Antonio, Texas. In August, 1911, he was ordered to Fort
Myer, Virginia, where he located and afterwards purchased for the
Goyernment the artillery range at Tobyhanna, Pa. From 1914 to 1917
he was on duty in the Militia Bureau of the War Department. He was
promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1916, and colonel in 1917. In May,
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