Major General Robert Edward Lee Michie (June 1, 1864 – June 4, 1918) was a U.S. Army general.
Early life
Michie was born in
Bellair, Virginia, in
Albemarle County
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on June 1, 1864, to Dr. J. Augustus Michie and Susan Jackson Michie. He graduated number twenty-six of thirty-nine from the
United States Military Academy
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at
West Point
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, New York, in 1885.
Among his classmates included several officers who would become future
general officer
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...
s, such as
Beaumont B. Buck
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,
Joseph E. Kuhn
Joseph E. Kuhn (June 14, 1864 – November 12, 1935) was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of major general, and was most notable for his command of the 79th Division during World War I, and his post-war comma ...
,
Henry P. McCain,
Robert Lee Bullard
Lieutenant General Robert Lee Bullard (January 5, 1861 – September 11, 1947) was a senior officer of the United States Army. He was involved in conflicts in the American Western Frontier, the Philippines, and World War I, where he commanded t ...
,
George W. Burr,
John D. Barrette,
John M. Carson Jr.,
Robert A. Brown
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In 1991, Brown was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the application of computing techniques to ...
,
Charles H. Muir,
William F. Martin
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Born in Bethesda, Maryland, Martin was ...
,
Daniel B. Devore and
Willard A. Holbrook.
Military career
During the
Spanish–American War
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, Michie served as a major,
U.S. Volunteers, from 1898 to 1899. He also served in the Adjutant General's Department in
Havana
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Pinar del Rio
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* Pınar, Turkish feminine given name
* Píñar, municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain
* Pinar del Río, a city of Cuba
* Pinar del Río Province, a province of Cuba
* Pinar, Albania, village in Tirana County ...
, Cuba. From 1900 to 1901, he was the adjutant general, Department of the Missouri (River) and from 1903 to 1904 he was in the Philippines. He served with the General Staff from 1904 to 1917. Michie returned to Washington for duty with the General Staff, and also was sent as an observer of the German Army Maneuvers of 1908. His travels continued in 1917, when he went with a special United States commission to Russia. Michie was promoted to brigadier general (NA) on August 5, 1917, and was assigned to command the 53rd Infantry Brigade, a unit of the
27th Division, at
Camp Wadsworth
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, South Carolina, near
Spartanburg
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. He took it to France with the
American Expeditionary Forces
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in 1918; he died there at age 54 on June 4, 1918.
Michie was buried at
Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial
The Suresnes American Cemetery ( French: ''Cimetière américain de Suresnes'') is a United States military cemetery in the Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the resting place of 1,541 American soldiers killed in World War I. A panoramic ...
.
Personal life
Michie married Gray Beachy on January 19, 1887.
References
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1864 births
1918 deaths
United States Army generals
People from Albemarle County, Virginia
19th-century American military personnel
20th-century American military personnel
United States Military Academy alumni
United States Army generals of World War I
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
Military personnel from Virginia
Burials in France