The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, Hugh Lenox

SCOTT, Hugh Lenox (1853— ). An American soldier, born at Danville, Ky. He graduated at West Point in 1876, and entered the cavalry. He saw service in Indian campaigns and was assigned to Western posts. In 1892 he enlisted an Indian troop in the Seventh Cavalry, and commanded it until all Indian troops were mustered out of service in 1897. In the war with Spain he was an adjutant-general in the First Army Corps, holding that office until February, 1899. He then served for fourteen months as adjutant general of the Department of Havana, after which he became successively assistant adjutant-general, and adjutant-general of the Department of Cuba. Besides reports on the Plains Indians, he wrote a monograph on the sign language of the Plains Indians, published in the Proceedings of the Folk Lore Congress of the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893.