- Lytle Brown
Lytle Brown (
November 22 ,1872 -May 3 ,1951 ) was a Major General of the US Army andChief of Engineers commanding theUS Army Corps of Engineers . He served at theBattle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago in the war withSpain , where he became city engineer of Manila and engineering officer for Northern Luzon. He was an instructor at West Point from 1903-1907.Biography
Born
November 22 ,1872 , inNashville, Tennessee , graduated fourth in theUnited States Military Academy (West Point) class of 1898 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in theCorps of Engineers .He served with engineer troops in Cuba in 1898 at the
Battle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago and in 1900-02 was Engineer of the Department of Northern Luzon in the Philippine Islands. Brown oversaw river improvement projects in 1908-12 as Louisville District Engineer.While commanding a battalion of engineers at
Fort Leavenworth ,Kansas in 1911, General Brown madeDouglas MacArthur , future General of the Army, hisAdjutant . When General MacArthur was Chief of Staff, he placed Brown in charge of the Panama Canal district.He commanded the 2d Battalion of Engineers and served as engineer of Pershing's 1916
punitive expedition into Mexico. In 1917, he received the rank of colonel, and in 1918 the rank of wartime brigadier. Brown headed the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff from May 1918 to June 1919, addressing important Army policy issues during and immediately afterWorld War I .He received a Distinguished Service Medal. Brown oversaw construction work at the Wilson Dam hydroelectric project in 1919-20. He was assistant commandant of the
Army War College and a brigade commander in the Canal Zone before becomingChief of Engineers , from 1929-1933. He concluded his military career as commander of the Panama Canal Department (1935-36). General Brown retiredNovember 30 ,1936 .He died in
Nashville, Tennessee , onMay 3 ,1951 , at the age of 78.References
*"This article contains
public domain text from" cite web | title=Major General Lytle Brown
work=Portraits and Profiles of Chief Engineers | url=http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/coe3.htm#35 | accessmonthday=August 26 | accessyear=2005
* "New York Times ",May 4 ,1951 , p. 27 obituary ( [http://www.elonka.com/mirrors/nytimes/nytimes19510504p27.pdf PDF] )
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
