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March (PEYTON CONWAY army officer)

PEYTON CONWAY, army officer; born at Easton, Pa., in 1864, graduated from Lafayette College in 1887. He then spent a year at the United States Military Academy, ten years later graduating from the Artillery School, Fort Monroe. He commanded the Astor Battery in 1898, and was at the head of the American forces in action at Tilad Pass, Luzon, P. I., in 1899, in which General Gregorio del Pilar was killed.

During this expedition General Concepcion surrendered to Major March, and Aguinaldo's wife and her escort were captured. In 1917 he was appointed army artillery commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and in February, 1918, was made chief of staff in the United States with the rank of Major General in the permanent establishment.