Apache Indians, forming Troop L, 7th cavalry, 1892, until they were mustered out (being the last troop of Indians mustered out of the service of the government), after five years enlistment.
He was promoted captain of cavalry, January 24, 1895, and was in charge of Geronimo's band of Chiricahua Apaches, 1894-97. He was assigned to duty at the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, District of Columbia, writing his technical work on the sign language of the Plains Indians of North America, 1897.
At the breaking out of the war with Spain, he was promoted major and assistant adjutant-general United States volunteers, 2d and 3d divisions of the 1st army corps, May 12, 1898, to 1899; he was commissioned adjutant-general, Department of Havana, under General Ludlow, March, 1899-May, 1900; in the meantime he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, August 17, 1899. In May, 1900, he was commissioned assistant adjutant-general of the division of Cuba until August 12, 1900. August 13, 1900, he was promoted adjutant-general division of Cuba, until November 15, when the Division of Cuba was changed to the Department of Cuba. Under Major-General Leonard Wood, he was military governor of Cuba for two years, 1900-02. Since that time he has been on duty with General Wood, assisting in transferring the government of Cuba from the United States to the Cuban authorities, and in closing the affairs of the military government of intervention in Cuba. He was appointed Governor of Sulu Archipelago, Philippine Islands, September 2, 1903, and held this position in 1905.
He delivered an address on the sign language of the Plains Indians, before the Folk-Lore Societies of the World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, which has been published in their proceedings. He was a member of the Philomathian Society, Lawrenceville; Whig Hall, Princeton university; of the Society of Spanish wars; he is a Master Mason; a member of the Anthropological Society, Washington, District of Columbia, and of the Metropolitan club, Washington, District of Columbia. He is a Republican in his sympathies, but is identified with no party, in politics. Works on military art are his favorite reading.
His relaxation and amusement take the form of sportsmanship generally; riding to hounds, running, swimming and riding. His own personal wishes and those of his family and relatives coincided in the
