The Army of 1918
The Army of 1918

Author: Robert Rutherford McCormick

Publisher: Cole Press

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781446070963

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Watching over Yellowstone
Watching over Yellowstone

Author: Thomas C. Rust

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 2020-06-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0700629610

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When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility: work they were untrained for, in a daunting physical and social environment where they weren’t particularly welcome. When they departed in 1918, America had a new sort of serviceman: the National Park Service Ranger. From the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the conclusion of the army’s superintendence, Watching over Yellowstone tells the boots-on-the-ground story of the US troops charged with imposing order on man and nature in America’s first national park. Yellowstone National Park had been created only fourteen years before Captain Moses Harris arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs with his company, Troop M of the First United States Cavalry, in August of 1886. And in those years, the underfunded, poorly supervised park had been visited freely by over-eager tourists, vandals, and poachers. Thomas C. Rust describes the task confronting Congress, military superintendents, and the common soldiers as the ever-increasing number of tourists, commercial interests, and politics stained the unruly park. At a time when the army was already undergoing a great transformation, the common soldiers were now struggling with unusual duties in unfamiliar terrain, often in unaccustomed proximity to the social elite who dominated the tourist class—fertile if uncertain ground for both the failures and the successes that eventually shaped the National Park Service’s ranger corps. What this meant for the average soldier emerges from the materials Rust consults: orders, circulars, inspection reports, court-martial cases, civilian accounts, and evidence from excavated soldier stations in the park. A nuanced social history from a rare ground-level perspective, his book captures an extraordinary moment in the story of America’s military and its national parks.

The Army of 1918
The Army of 1918

Author: Robert Rutherford McCormick

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781440041143

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Excerpt from The Army of 1918 In the early days of my service, while on duty with the General Staff of the A. E. F., I expected to publish my observations upon the development and conduct of that army; but when the war came to a sudden and unexpected end, after a campaign in which I had no part, I abandoned the idea. Now, however, more than a year has passed since the armistice. The great army has gone back into civil life. The Regular Army is rapidly returning to its bureaucracy. Congress appears farther from adopting a military policy than at any period in the last decade. The National Guard Association wants to smash the Regular Army; and the pacifists, as though encouraged by the forest of white crosses they have caused to be planted in Europe, work for that day when they may see even more American dead than there now are in France, even as the harvest exceeds the sowing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918
Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918

Author: George Catlett Marshall

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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George C. Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. He drafted this manuscript while he was in Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1924 as aide-de-camp to General of the Armies John J. Pershing. However, given the growing bitterness of the "memoirs wars" of the period he decided against publication, and the draft sat unused until the 1970s when Marshall's step-daughter and her husband decided to publish it.

Regimental History of the United States Regular Army
Regimental History of the United States Regular Army

Author: United States Adjutant-General's Office

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780656060702

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Excerpt from Regimental History of the United States Regular Army: Chronological Outline, 1866-1918 Prepared as of July 1, 1918, by the Adjutant General's Office, at the request of the correspondents' corps, and furnished through the Committee on Public Information. The purpose of this compilation is to place at the disposal of correspondents and editors, for such reference and other use as may be desirable, correct data concerning the development of individual regiments comprising the Regular Army of the United States. Members of correspondents' corps requested that this data embrace some information as to nicknames and outstanding fighting achievements of the older regiments, but it was not found practicable to fur nish this. Infantry first infantry Louisiana, 1866 to 1869. Michigan and New York, 1869 to 1874. Dakota, 1874 to 1880. Texas, 1880 to 1882. Arizona, 1882 to 1886. California, 1886 to 1898. Florida, 1898. Cuba E and G, May 10 to 17, 1898. Headquarters and A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H, June 14 to August 1898. New York, 1898. Alabama, 1898. Cuba Headquarters and F, December 30, 1898, to August 12, 1900. A and D, December 30, 1898, to September 19, 1899. B, December 29, 1898, to September 19, 1899. C, January 8 to September 19, 1899. E and G, January 8, 1899, to August 12, 1900. H, December 29, 1898, to August 12, 1900. I, December 29, 1898, to September 6, 1900. K, January 8, 1899. To August 7, 1900. L, December 30, 1898, to August 7, 1900. M, December 29, 1898, to August 7, 1900. (four companies in Kansas and Arkansas, September, 1899, April. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Into the Fight, April-June 1918
Into the Fight, April-June 1918

Author: Mark E. Grotelueschen

Publisher: U.S. Army Campaigns of World W

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9780160946479

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Into the Fight, April-June 1918, is the fourth installment of the U.S. Army Campaigns of World War I series, covering the American Expeditionary Forces- role in countering the German spring offensives of March-June 1918. The arrival of the American forces on the Western Front in early 1918 coincided with a series of major German pushes intended to break through the Allied lines. The crisis of the German offensives provided an opening for multiple American divisions to enter the lines. They worked with British and French units to resist the German advances, took command of their own sectors of the front, and increasingly engaged in their own offensive operations. The narrative of this volume spans the brutal fighting at Cantigny, Château-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Vaux, where the inexperienced and untried American soldiers and marines received their first exposure to the grim realities of combat. Yet as the actions of these early campaigns show, both allies and enemies soon learned that the Americans who reached the front in the spring of 1918 were willing and able to fight with the grit and determination needed to achieve victory. Related products: World War I resources collection The Legacy of Belleau Wood: 100 Years of Making Marines and Winning Battles, An Anthology Other products produced by the United States Army, Center of Military History(CMH)