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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 The Life of Lieutenant General ChaffeeGeneral Chaffee was one of two million young men and boys who during the fratricidal con¿ict volun teered with only one thought - to save the Union. The vast majority of them have gone to their tombs, and the Grim Reaper, from whom none escapes, is rapidly gathering the survivors to their last bivouac. The world goes on, and the kaleidoscopic course of modern events seems to leave no time for ...

Excerpt from The American ArmyThe manuscript of this volume was begun before the outbreak of the present war in Europe, with a view to setting forth the conditions and methods of administration of the American army, and the urgent need of nationalizing and organizing our military resources while there is no war-cloud on our horizon. During all the earlier years of the Republic, the limitless faith in the ocean barriers guarding our coasts prev...

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