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| Author | : Morris Schaff |
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| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1907 |
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The author provides an autobiographical account of his time at the United States Military Academy at West Point at the outbreak of the American Civil War.
| Author | : Morris SCHAFF |
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| Release | : 1907 |
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| Author | : Morris Schaff |
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| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 1908 |
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| Author | : Morris Schaff |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1912 |
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| Author | : Morris Schaff |
| Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
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| ISBN | : 9781230246147 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PEACEMAKERS The week during which so many of the Southern men left was full of intense interest. Perhaps in all of West Point's life there has never been its equal, or one even like it. For the hearts of the people from one end of the country to the other were heaving from their depths, depths of feeling which are reached only when mankind is on the verge of some great trial and about to fight its way to some azure crest in the range of ideals; one of those times when the shrines of our better natures are all flashing, and mysterious hands are sweeping those harps which are hung in the sky of our being; oh, yes, when Poetry and Art, and their heavenly sister, Religion, are all active in behalf of our sentiment and imagination, that their great creative instincts may make new advances toward the light of God. I wish I could translate that week's record of our country's deep feeling into terms that would satisfy the ultimate sources of reason, history, and divine interpretation; for I have a consciousness that in it lie those movements which at last are transmuted into epics and lyrics, and those exalted terms which we find on the lips of the great seers and prophets. Whatever the week's record may embrace of the inspiration I have intimated, it marked the display of what is known as West Point friendship. And in due time for that friendship I shall claim our present peace and national welfare and, what is more, the salvation of our land from horrible pages of history; but for the present let the following letter, written by my classmate McCrea on Saturday, the 27th of April, 1861, throw its light on what had happened at West Point in the week then closing: -- "On Sunday night, or rather Monday morning, for it was after 12 o'clock, some...
| Author | : Morris Schaff |
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| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 1907 |
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The author provides an autobiographical account of his time at the United States Military Academy at West Point at the outbreak of the American Civil War.
| Author | : MORRIS. SCHAFF |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
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| ISBN | : 9781033296776 |
| Author | : Morris Schaff |
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| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
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| ISBN | : 9781719936217 |
From the inside cover: General Schaff has given us an uncommonly vivid and readable autobiography and a historic document of very unusual importance. He was at West Point just at the outbreak of the Civil War, and has caught the spirit of the hour as few have ever caught it. The human interest of the book is as great as the historic. It is full of both humor and pathos. Anecdotes of student pranks, masterly pen portraits of distinguished officers, and impressive battle pieces are welded together into imaginative unity under General Schaff's skillful pen. The book is illustrated by numerous views from photographs. Faithful to the original 1907 edition, The Spirit of Old West Point is a fantastic read. Have a "Look Inside".
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| Total Pages | : 1084 |
| Release | : 1907 |
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| Author | : J. P. Clark |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2017-01-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674973100 |
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways. Nineteenth-century officers believed that generalship and battlefield command were more a matter of innate ability than anything institutions could teach. They saw no benefit in conceptual preparation beyond mastering technical skills like engineering and gunnery. Thus, preparations for war were largely confined to maintaining equipment and fortifications and instilling discipline in the enlisted ranks through parade ground drill. By World War I, however, Progressive Era concepts of professionalism had infiltrated the Army. Younger officers took for granted that war’s complexity required them to be trained to think and act alike—a notion that would have offended earlier generations. Preparing for War concludes by demonstrating how these new notions set the conditions for many of the successes—and some of the failures—of General Pershing’s American Expeditionary Forces.
