Hunter Liggett

Military service Early military career Liggett was initially assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment at Fort Keogh, Montana, where he remained until December 1879. After she failed to arrive in port, another transport carrying 31st Infantry soldiers, City of Peking, put back out to sea to search.

Liggett attended the United States Army War College from July 1909 to July 1910. He commanded the Department of the Philippines from April 1916 to April 1917, when he returned to the United States. In January 1918, Liggett was assigned to command I Corps; he led this organization through October 1918 and took part in all major US operations, including the Saint-Mihiel offensive and Meuse–Argonne offensive. Under these criteria, James G. Harbord and William M. Wright were promoted to lieutenant general on the retired list.

In April 1919, Liggett was assigned to command Third Army during the Occupation of the Rhineland. He died in San Francisco on December 30, 1935.

American awards Army Distinguished Service Medal Indian Campaign Medal Spanish War Service Medal Philippine Campaign Medal World War I Victory Medal Army of Occupation of Germany Medal Foreign awards

Army Distinguished Service medal citation Citation

Other honors

The U.S. Army named a base on California's central coast Fort Hunter Liggett.

Liggett Hall, now a central feature of Governors Island Park, was a regimental-sized barracks constructed at Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Completed in 1930, it was thought to be the largest building constructed by the U.S. Army and was the largest structure built under the supervision of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps prior to the construction of the Pentagon.

Dates of rank Liggett's dates of rank were:

center Lieutenant General Emergency 1 November 1918(Date of rank 16 October 1918. Discharged and reverted to permanent rank 30 June 1920.)80px