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Home Town Bethesda, Maryland
Last Address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whitside
Date of Passing Dec 14, 1904
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Expires of Acute indigestion After a Brief Illness. Had Just Returned from Trip to Panama with Canal Commission His Long Army Career.
   Gen. S. M. Whitside, U.S.A., died suddenly at the Ebbitt House of acute indigestion yesterday morning. He had returned from Panama, where he had made a tour of the canal zone with the members of the commission. He reached the hotel Wednesday night at 9 o'clock, and at 4:30 yesterday morning Dr. Burch was called in to relieve his intense suffering in the abdomen. A half hour later he was dead.
   Word was sent to the War Department, and Capt. Hutchinson, U.S.A., took charge of the remains. Coroner Nevitt was notified and gave a certificate of natural death. The funeral arrangements will be made later by the family, who reside at Bethesda, Md.
   Born in Canada, Gen. Whitside began his career in the United States army in 1858, when he enlisted as a private in the general mounted service, shortly after being promoted to sergeant major. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed second lieutenant of the Sixth Cavalry, three years later being promoted to first lieutenant. He was brevetted captain and major in March, 1865. During the war Gen. Whitside was aid-de-camp to Gen. McClellan, and while in that capacity took part in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac. Afterward as aid to Gen. Banks he took part in the operations before Port Hudson. He was aid under Gen. Martindale, commanding the District of Washington, and was also aid to Gen. Pleasanton, commanding the Army of the Potomac. At Culpeper Court House he was severely wounded.
   He had been mustering and disbursing officer in Rhode Island during a part of 1864, and when the war ended he mustered out some 30,000 troops of the Army of the Shenandoah. He afterward saw considerable service in the far West, serving with his regiment in Texas and Arizona. In 1871 he was on recruiting service in Philadelphia, and in 1882 was detailed to Washington.
   Gen. Whitside was brigadier general of volunteers during the operations in Cuba in the Spanish-American war. He commanded the department of Santiago, in October, 1898, he was made colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, and served in that capacity until May, 1902, when at his own request, he was placed on the retired list under the forty years' service clause.
   Since that time he has lived at his home in Maryland. He is survived by his widow and a son, First Lieut. Warren W. Whitside, of the Fifteenth Cavalry, recently stationed at Fort Myer, and now with his regiment at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. (The Washington Post, 1904)Â
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TRIBUTE TO GEN. WHITSIDE.
Members of Congress Express Regret for His Death--Funeral Arrangements.
   At the meeting yesterday of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce resolutions were adopted expressive of the grief of the members of the committee for the sudden death of Brig. Gen. S. M. Whitside, which occurred on Thursday morning, and of their appreciation for his qualities as a soldier and a man. A subcommittee composed of Representative Thomas B. Kyle, of Ohio, and Irving Wanger, of Pennsylvania, was appointed to attend the funeral to-morrow morning, and to place a floral tribute from the committee upon the casket.
   Representative Hepburn, chairman of the committee, presided, and voiced the sentiments of the members in a eulogy, in which he expressed his admiration for the dead soldier. Gen. Whitside accompanied the committee on their recent visit to Panama, and endeared himself to them for his lovable qualities.
   The remains of Gen. Whitside will be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services will be held in St. John's Episcopal Church, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton Smith, rector, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Dr. Duncan, of Bethesda, Md., and Capt. Pierce, of Fort Myer.
   The body will be escorted to the grave by a squadron of the Seventh Cavalry, commanded by Maj. Nicholson, who served with the deceased during the Indian wars of 1889 and 1890.
   The honorary pallbearers will be Lieut. Gen. A. R. Chaffee, Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, Commissary General G. F. Weston, Q. M. Gen. Charles F. Humphries, Brig. Gen. R. F. Frank, Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, and Maj. J. B. Aleshire.
   The residence of the late Gen. Whitside was at Bethesda, Md., but since his demise, Mrs. Whitside and family have taken up temporary quarters at the Gordon Hotel. (The Washington Post, 1904)Â
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BURIED AT ARLINGTON.
Remains of Gen. Whitside Laid to Rest with Military Honors.
   The remains of Brig. Gen. S. M. Whitside were interred at Arlington with military honors yesterday. Escorted by a squadron of Seventh Cavalry, in command of Maj. Nichollson, who fought with Gen. Whitside in the frontier skirmishes of the early '90's, and by a band, the remains were taken to St. John's Church, where the services were held. From there the procession moved up Connecticut avenue and out through Georgetown to Arlington. The coffin, heaped with flowers, was mounted on a caisson, following the cavalry and preceding the long line of carriages.
   At the church the services were simple, and were attended only by the immediate friends and relatives. Rev. Roland Cotton-Smith, rector of St. John's Church, officiated, assisted by Chaplain Pierce of Fort Myer, and by Dr. Duncan, of Bethesda. The honorary pallbearers were Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, Commissary Gen. G. F. Weston, Quartermaster Gen. Charles F. Humphries, Brig. Gen. R. F. Frank, Brig. Gen. R. H. Hall, and Maj. J. B. Aleshire.
   Representatives Thomas B. Kyle, of Ohio, and Irving P. Wanger, of Pennsylvania, were in attendance on the part of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House.
   The troops of the squadron of cavalry, under Maj. Nichollson, were in command of Capts. Averill and Roberts, and Lieuts. West and Montgomery. At the grave a brief service was held by Chaplain Pierce, after which the usual salute was fired. (The Washington Post, 1904)Â
Works Cited:
The Washington Post. (1904, December 19). Buried at Arlington. The Washington Post , p. 4.
The Washington Post. (1904, December 16). Death of Gen. Whitside. The Washington Post, p. 13.
The Washington Post. (1904, December 17). Tribute to Gen. Whitside. The Washington Post , p. 4.
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6TH U.S. CAVALRY IN CAMP AT SNICKERS GAP, VA.--1862
The group of 6th Cavalry officers on page 53 [of the Mar-Apr 1934 issue of The Quartermaster Review] was taken in camp at Snickers Gap, Va., in 1862, and has been identified by Colonel Warren Whitside, Q.M.C., whose father is in the group, as follows: standing, left to right, 2nd Lt. Thos. W. Simson, 1st Lt. Albert Coats. Sitting, left to right, 2nd Lt. Samuel Whitside, Captain (Brevet Colonel) August Kautz.
WITH BRIG. GEN. LEONARD WOOD AT SANTIAGO, CUBA, 1899
Description The Philippine–American War (Spanish: Guerra Filipino-Estadounidense, Filipino: Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano) (1899–1902) was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina) and the United States.
The conflict arose when First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris under which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain ending the Spanish–American War. The war was a continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence that began in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution.
Fighting erupted between United States and the Philippine Republic forces on February 4, 1899, and quickly escalated into the 1899 Second Battle of Manila. On June 2, 1899, the First Philippine Republic officially declared war against the United States. The war officially ended on July 2, 1902, with a victory for the United States. However, some Philippine groups led by veterans of the Katipunan continued to battle the American forces. Among those leaders was General Macario Sacay, a veteran Katipunan member who assumed the presidency of the proclaimed "Tagalog Republic", formed in 1902 after the capture of President Emilio Aguinaldo. Other groups, including the Moro people and Pulahanes people, continued hostilities in remote areas and islands until their final defeat a decade later at the Battle of Bud Bagsak on June 15, 1913.
The war and occupation by the U.S. would change the cultural landscape of the islands, as people dealt with an estimated 34,000 to 220,000 Philippine casualties (with more civilians dying from disease and hunger brought about by war), disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines (as a "state Church" – as previously in Spain), and the introduction of the English language in the islands as the primary language of government, education, business, industrial and increasingly in future decades among families and educated individuals.
Under the 1902 "Philippine Organic Act", passed by the United States Congress, Filipinos were initially given very limited self-government, including the right to vote for some elected officials such as an elected Philippine Assembly, but it was not until 14 years later with the 1916 Philippine Autonomy Act, (or "Jones Act") passed by the United States Congress, during the administration of Democratic 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, that the U.S. officially promised eventual independence, along with more Philippine control in the meantime over the Philippines. The 1934 Philippine Independence Act created in the following year the Commonwealth of the Philippines, a limited form of independence, and established a process ending in Philippine independence (originally scheduled for 1944, but interrupted and delayed by World War II). Finally in 1946, following World War II and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, the United States granted independence through the Treaty of Manila concluded between the two governments and nations.
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Memories Commander, Department of Santiago & Puerto Principe, Cuba; Commander, Department of Eastern Cuba; Commander, District of Santiago do Cuba
