SR 15 — Celebrating the life of Major General Henry Jervey, Jr., USA, Ret.

SESSION INTRODUCEDENROLLED 22103808D I SENATE RESOLUTION NO.

15 OfferedE January 27, 2022 N Celebrating the life of Major General Henry Jervey, Jr., USA, Ret.

TN Patrons––Hashmi,R Boysko,Agreed Edwards,to Howell,by McPikethe andSenate, SurovellFebruary R3, ––––––––––2022 O WHEREAS, Major General Henry Jervey, Jr., USA, Ret., an inspiration to military engineers whose legacy lives on through the countless enhancements he made to American harbors and waterways, dDeddied L September 30, 1942, after a lifetime of dauntless service;

and WHEREAS,L HenryCreek JerveyMills wasarea bornof onPowhatan; June 5, 1866, and raised on St.

Helen's Farm in the Fine U Creek Mills area of Powhatan;

Jervey, an assCstantassistant E surgeon originally of Charleston, South Carolina, and to Helen Louise Wesson Jervey, originally of SumWHEREAS,Summit afterPlantation, theNorthampton deathCounty, ofNorth hisCarolina; paternal grandfather, Henry Jervey helped escort the coffin to Charleston for burial and remained in the area;

heand graduatedD fromWHEREAS, highafter school with high marks, entered The University of the Southdeath at the age of 15,his andpaternal graduatedgrandfather, withHenry aJervey degreehelped inescort civilthe engineering,coffin asto bothCharleston thefor youngestburial and highest-rankedremained student in histhe class;area;

andhe WHEREAS, Henry Jervey subsequently graduated from thehigh Unitedschool States Military Academy at West Point with ahigh degreemarks, inentered civilthe engineeringyoungest asand thehighest-ranked top-ranked student in thehis Classclass; of 1888;

andanded WHEREAS,with Henrya Jerveydegree wasin assignedcivil toengineering, theas Armyboth CorpsWHEREAS, ofHenry Engineers'Jervey Engineeringsubsequently Schoolgraduated offrom Applicationthe atUnited Willet'sStates PointMilitary inAcademy theat NewWest YorkPoint Harborwith anda graduateddegree threein yearscivil laterengineering withas the equivalenttop-ranked militarystudent photography and in self-propelledthe navalClass mines;of 1888;

anditionaland tour of duty there as an instructor in WHEREAS, in 1898, Henry Jervey was inassigned chargeto of the MississippiArmy RiverCorps Improvementof FourthEngineers' REngineering District,School supervisingof aR crew of 19 aboard a shipmaster's takingdegree upin minescivil whichengineering; had been laid at the onset of the Spanish-American War, when an unseen mine several feet below the surface exploded suddenly;

andhe WHEREAS,served thean ship'sadditional forecastletour andof pilotduty housethere wereas destroyed,an sixinstructor menin were5 blownmilitary intophotography the water and killed,in andself-propelled thenaval shipmines; sank within a day;

however,and R WHEREAS, in 1898, Henry Jervey,Jervey whowas in charge of the Mississippi River Improvement Fourth District, supervising a crew of 19 aboard a ship taking up mines which had been standinglaid justat feetthe fromonset of the pilotSpanish-American house,War, waswhen leftan miraculouslyunseen unscathed;mine several feet below the surface exploded suddenly;

and WHEREAS,and Henrykilled, Jerveyand continued to work with the Mississippiship Riversank Improvementwithin Fourth District Kempe Levee, which was 18 feet tall and three-quarters of a mileday; in length when completed;

andhowever, of the WHEREAS, Henry JerveyJervey, waswho subsequentlyhad assignedbeen tostanding thejust defensefeetr offrom rivers and harbors of Tampa Bay and the westpilot coasthouse, ofwas Florida,left servedmiraculously inunscathed; the Philippines as a lighthouse inspector, and then returned to West Point as an assistant professor of chemistry;

and :WHEREAS, Henry Jervey continued to work with the Mississippi River Improvement Fourth District and supervised hundreds of laborers who moved 200,000 cubic yards of earth in the construction of the KemWHEREAS, Henry Jervey was subsequently assigned to the defense of rivers and harbors of Tampa Bay and the west coast of Florida, served in the Philippines as a lighthouse inspector, and then returned to West Point as an assistant professor of chemistry;

35and WHEREAS, from 1905 to 1910, Henry Jervey was in charge of harbors and defenses of the Mobile 36 District in Alabama and directed the expansion of Mobile Bay's channel to better accommodate modern 37shiWHEREAS, ships;from 1910 to 1915, Henry Jervey was responsible for the improvement of the Ohio River for navigation;

andduring 38that WHEREAS,period, fromhe 1910completed tothe 1915,Fernbank HenryDam Jerveyand wasbegan responsibleconstruction for the improvement of the Ohio several other dams in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana;

and WHEREAS, Henry Jervey graduated from the Army War College in 1916 and was assigned an additional tour of duty there as an instructor, during which time he wrote Warfare of the Future, published in 1917;

and WHEREAS, in 1918, newly appointed Chief of Staff General Peyton March reappointed Henry Jervey his assistant chief of staff/director of operations, overseeing what was then the largest and fastest military buildup in history;

andaff/director of operations, overseeing what was then the largest and fastest WHEREAS, Henry Jervey was among the first six officers to receive the Distinguished Military Service Medal, created by the United States Congress in 1918, for "especially meritorious and conWHEREAS,conspicuous inservices recognitionas Director of hisOperations, serviceGeneral Staff during World War I, Henry Jervey also received honors SR15 2 of 2 from the UnitedGreat Kingdom,World France,War"; Belgium, and Italy;

and WHEREAS, afterin therecognition war,of Henryhis Jerveyservice oversawduring theWorld purchaseWar ofI, 135,000Henry acresJervey nearalso Fayetteville,received Northhonors Carolina,from for the creationUnited ofKingdom, whatFrance, isBelgium, nowand FortItaly; Bragg;

and of 2 WHEREAS, after the war, Henry Jervey oversaw the purchase of 135,000 acres near Fayetteville, North Carolina, for the creation of what is now Fort Bragg;