MORRISON, John Frank, American army officer: b. Charlottesville, N. Y., 20 Dec. 1857. He was graduated from the United States Mili tary Academy and commissioned 2d lieutenant, 20th Infantry in 1881. During his service as a subaltern and captain he was noted as a student of tactics and an authority on general military science. He served in the Santiago campaign and later in the Philippines with distinction. In the Russo-Japanese War he was selected for service as an observer and accompanied Gen eral Kurski through the campaign from the Yalu to Liao Yang and Mukden. On his re turn home in 1905 he was detailed as a student to the nascent Army War College and in the following year went to Leavenworth service schools as instructor. In 1907 he became chief of the department of military art in that in stitution. The drastic reforms and reorganiza tions he there carried out led to a high degree of efficiency under his administration. During
1912 and 1913 he was sent to Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone to plan the defenses of those places. He served on the Mexican border in 1914 as colonel and in 1915 was sent on a mission to China. At the end of 1915 he was promoted to brigadier-general, and to major general in 1917. In January 1918. shortly after his return from a tour of obseivation• and inspection in France, he was appointed to the newly-created office of Director of Train ing. His teaching has revolutionized Ameri can infantry drill regulations; a number of his lectures have been collected and published, among them being 'Seventy Problems: in fantry tactics, battalion, brigade and division' (1914) ; to Study in Troop Leading,' etc. (in collaboration with E. L. Munson: 1911 and 1918) ; 'Training Infantry' (1914).