Sharpe
HENRY GRANVILLE, an American soldier, born at Kingston, N.
Y., in 1858. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1880, and was appointed 2nd lieutenant in the same year. He resigned in 1882, but was reappointed as a captain in 1883. He was promoted major in 1895, colonel in 1901, and commissary-general in 1905. In 1912 he was made brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps, and in 1916 was made major-general and quartermaster general. In 1918 he became major general of the line of the army. He superintended relief work during several floods in the south, and had charge of the commissary of the 1st Army Corps, and of the Department of Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He was chief commissary of the Philippines from 1902 to 1904, and in 1918-19 commanded the Southeastern Department. He served in France in the latter year. He was the author of "The Art of Subsisting Armies in War," and "The Provisioning of the Modern Army in the Field."