Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — LIEUTENANT BRUM BY DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIEUTENANT BRUM BY DEAD.

Dewey’s Flag Officer at tl»e Battle of ’Manila Passes Away.

Lieut. Thomas M. Brumby, flag secretary to Admiral Dewey, who had been ill with typhoid fever, died at Garfield hospital in Washington

Sunday evening. Lieut. Brumby went out to the Asiatic station with the a<Lmiral and remained there until both returned to the United States several months kgo. In his capacity as flag lieutenant to the admiral Lieut. Brumby was with his chief practically

all the time, and acted as his personal representative in many matters of detail. He was regarded by Admiral Dewey as a'bright, energetic and capable' assistant. The lieutenant’s illness dated from about Nov. 27, the first symptom being nothing more than a cold, which, how ever, failed to yield to treatment, and soon afterward he went to the Garfield hospital. The officer’a aged mother is living in Marietta, Ga. His father, who is dead, was a colonel of the Fourteenth Georgia regiment in the Confederate army. Lieut. Brumby was 44 years old and unmarried. In his report of the battle of Manila Admiral Dewey spoke in very complimentary terms of the services and gallantry of his flag lieutenant and rec-, ommended that he be advanced on the list of lieutenants. The lieutenant's death is the third among the officers associated with Dewey at the battle of Manila. The others were Capt. Gridley and Commander Wood. Lieut. Brumby was presented a sword by the Legislature of Georgia Oct. 26. He remained in Georgia some days after that and returned to Washington about the middle of November.

LIEUT. BRUMBY.