Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — Longevity of Berman Generals. [ARTICLE]

Longevity of Berman Generals.

Prussian Generals seem to enjoy a rare longevity. Without reckoning Marshals Yon Moltke and Yon Boon there isfound in the higher grades of the army a body of men who began their military caieers three-quarters of a.century ago. Gen. Von Schreibershofen, born in 1785, entered the service in 1797, and, after having risen through all the intermediate grades in the long wars which marked the beginning of this century, was created a Major General in 1829. On the Ist of November last he celebrated the fiftieth anniver sary of bis elevation to that dignity. at the green old age of 95, this veteran displays an almost youthful vigor.