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 military organizations are usually found in two classes: one being a biographical record of the members, usually accompanied by photographs, the other a general history of the campaigns in which the organization served. The author has endeavored to avoid both schools, and the reader must decide as to the degree of success which has attended the effort.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.