An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War (Texas a & M University Military History Series) PDF
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title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: Page i An Army for Empire The United States Army in the Spanish-American War Graham A. Cosmas Texas A&M University Press College Station Page ii Copyright © 1994 by Graham A. Cosmas Preface to the Second Edition copyright © White Mane publishing Company, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Texas A&M University edition, 1998 The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability First Printing, 1971, by The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri Second Printing, 1994, with supplemental materials, by White Mane Publishing Co., Inc. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cosmas, Graham A. An army for empire: the United States Army in the Spanish-American War / Graham A. Cosmas. p. cm. Originally published: The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1971. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89096-816-0 1. United States. ArmyHistorySpanish-American War, 1898. I. Title [E725.3.C6 1998] 97-38407 973.8'9dc21 CIP Page iii To Jean Carter Cosmas and George Cosmas Page v Acknowledgments I should like to thank the staffs of the following libraries and archives, without whose gracious and unstinting assistance this book never could have been written: The Ainsworth Search Room, National Archives, Washington, D.C. The Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin The Michigan Historical Collections, Ann Arbor, Michigan The William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan Thanks are also due to my graduate advisers, Professor Edward M. Coffman and Professor Richard N. Current, for their invaluable guidance and support at every stage of the project and to Professor Bernard H. Cohen and the directors of the National Security Studies Group at The University of Wisconsin for financial assistance that made possible a year of research in Washington, D.C. G.A.C. ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA MAY, 1973 Page vii Contents Acknowledgments, v List of Illustrations and Maps, viii Guide to Footnote Abbreviations, x Preface to the Second Edition, xi Introduction, xv 1. The War Department and the Army, 1898, 1 2. The Men and Their Ideas, 29 3. The Shaping of Military Policy, 63 4. Mobilization Begins; Strategy Changes, 103 5. Command, Administration, and Supply, 133 6. Organizing the Invasion Forces, 173 7. The Army in Combat, 201 8. Sickness and Scandal, 247 9. An Army for Empire, 297 Bibliography, 327 Index, 339 Page viii List of Illustrations and Maps Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, U.S.A., 23 Major General Nelson A. Miles, 48 Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger, 49 Adjutant General Henry C. Corbin, 50 President William McKinley, 69 Major General William R. Shafter, 102 Major General Wesley Merritt, U.S.A., Commander of the 109 Expedition to Manila, President William McKinley tours an army camp, 109 Secretary of War Russell A. Alger with Brigadier General 123 Henry C. Corbin, the adjutant general of the Army, Major Generals Nelson A. Miles and William R. Shafter, 123 Volunteer soldiers at Camp George H. Thomas at 125 Chickamauga Park, Georgia, Tenth Cavalry Officers, 125 Major General Joseph Wheeler, 144 Major General Fitzhugh Lee, 145 Stacked Springfields at Camp Thomas, 155 Company Kitchen, Camp Alger, 169 Loaded Transports moving out into Tampa Bay, sailing for181 Santiago, Major General William R. Shafter with Brigadier General 191 William Ludlow at Tampa, General Merritt with his staff en route to Manila, 195 Camp Merritt, Cal. Transport Indiana receiving troops and 195 freight at Pacific Mail Docks on eve of departure. June 27, 1898, Ninth U.S. Infantry landing at Siboney, Cuba, June 25, 203 1898, Landing at Daiquirí with one loading pier in the 203 background, Wheeler and one of his brigade commanders in Cuba, 211 U.S.A. Transports at Siboney, Cuba, 211 Capron's Battery in action on July 10, 1898, during siege 212 of Santiago, Cuba, Page ix Pack mules of the Fifth Corps supply train, 212 United States troops going to the front. Scene near Major 213 General Shafter's Headquarters during advance on Santiago, Cuba, U.S. Pack Train marching to the front during advance on 213 Santiago, Cuba, Surgeon General George M. Sternberg, U.S. Army, 249 Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Sternberg Hospital, 251 Third Army Corps. Nurses and convalescent patients, Major General Grenville M. Dodge, U.S. Volunteers, 270 Secretary of War Alger tours Camp Wikoff, 270 Dentistry in Camp Thomas, 271 Washday in Camp Thomas, 271 Main Street, 1st Brigade Hospital, Camp Conrad, 303 Columbus, Georgia, December 25, 1898, Winterized Tents, probably Camp Shipp, Alabama, Fall 303 1898, Brigadier General John R. Brooke, 311 American Troops entering Havana, Cuba, January 1, 311 1899, 20th Kansas Camp at the Presidio, San Francisco, 315 Secretary of War Elihu Root, 321 Map 1. Camps and Embarkation Ports, 1898, 138 Map 2. Cuba and the Santiago Campaign, 205
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