Excerpt from From Yorktown to Santiago With the Sixth U. S. CavalryThe title given this volume was selected to indicate the first and last battles in which the Sixth Cavalry participated. To-day the news was ¿ashed from the Golden Gate of the Pacific that the regiment had passed out on the transport Grant, bound for China. To conserve the truth of history it may soon be necessary to amend the title to read From Yorktown to Pekin.Histories of m...
Excerpt from Giles Carter of Virginia: Genealogical MemoirWhen I look back at my initial efforts to unravel the tangled skein and recall the groping and ¿oun dering, I am amazed that I ever had the courage to go forward. I had entered the military service at an early age, at the close Of the great Civil War in which the family, like many others in the border states Of the Confederacy, had divided and cast its fortunes on opposing sides in the ...
Excerpt from Giles Carter of Virginia: Genealogical Memoir
When I look back at my initial efforts to unravel the tangled skein and recall the groping and ¿oun dering, I am amazed that I ever had the courage to go forward. I had entered the military service at an early age, at the close Of the great Civil War in which the family, like many others in the border states Of the Confederacy, had divided and cast its fortunes on opposing sides in th...
Excerpt from From Yorktown to Santiago With the Sixth U. S. Cavalry
The regiment will always hold in high esteem the artists - Remington, de Thulstmp, Zogbaum, Gaul, Klepper and Christy - who have generously aided in making this volume a worthy memento of long years of service under the flag of the Republic.
The author desires to express his personal appreciation of the kindly assistance rendered by these gentlemen and to make due acknowledg...
