This Date in History: October 3

 

Sergeant Patrick Carey, Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment died of senile debility and exhaustion on October 3, 1893 at Barnes Hospital in the Old Soldiers’ Home in Washington, DC.

Sergeant Patrick Carey was born in Tipperary, Ireland on April 14, 1828.  A bachelor, Carey enlisted on September 14, 1866 in Company I of the 36th Infantry Regiment; enlistment records show he was 5’7½” tall, with gray eyes, gray hair with a light complexion.  After completing his initial enlistment, Carey, who was nicknamed “Patsy,” enlisted on March 4, 1870 with Company M of the 7th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth.  He completed this enlistment as well and re-enlisted in Company M on March 22, 1875.  He was promoted to corporal on August 15, 1873 and to sergeant on December 10, 1874. Carey was close with First Sergeant John Ryan; it had been Ryan for whom he had called when in trouble during the opening stages of the company riot in March 1876.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

**********

Walter Warlimont, Army General of Artillery, born October 3, 1894 in Osnabrück, Deputy Chief of the Wehrmacht Operations Staff, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, sentenced in 1948 to life imprisonment, released in 1957, author Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, died October 9, 1976 in Kreuth, said of Adolf Hitler: “Hitler did not want unity; he preferred diversity, such unity as there was being concentrated in his person alone.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)