The United Service.; A Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs. Volume II
Philadelphia, PA: L. R. Hamersly & Co., 1880. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. iv, 788 pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Stamp on fep. Name with U.S. Army association stamped at the top of page 1. This magazine was apparently published between 1879 and 1905, It may have had variations in its title but not its publisher. Among the contents listed are: The Battle of Nashville--General George H. Thomas by Brevet Major-General R. W. Johnson, U.S.A.; "Dai Nippon" by Captain R. S. Collum, U.S.M.C.; Duties of Staff-Officers by Brevet Major J. P. Sanger; Facts in Favor of Compulsory Retirement by Brevet Major-General Emory Upton, U.S.A.; Incidents of the Recent Campaign Against the Utes. by Captain J. S. Payne, Fifth Cavalry; Indian Story-land by Captain J. S. Payne, Fifth Cavalry; Our Indians of the Southwest By Brevet Major-General O. O. Howard, U.S.A.; A Powerful Navy not Dangerous to Civil Liberty by Captain S. B. Luce, U.S.N.; and The Sign-language of the North American Indian by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Garrick Mallery, U.S.A. There are over 60 articles and items in the Contents page. Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. As a brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, Howard lost his right arm while leading his men against Confederate forces at the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines in June 1862, an action which later earned him the Medal of Honor. Howard was also a leader in promoting higher education for freedmen, most notably in founding Howard University in Washington. Stephen Bleecker Luce (March 25, 1827 – July 28, 1917) was a U.S. Navy admiral. He was the founder and first president of the Naval War College, between 1884 and 1886. Luce was also instrumental in starting the U.S. Naval Institute and its publication, Proceedings. He served as the institute's president from 1887 to 1898. Based on Luce's urgings and exhaustive reports, the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, was established October 6, 1884 with Luce as its first president. In 1885 he was promoted to rear admiral, and in 1886 he was succeeded as president by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose writings had greatly influenced the Navy's decision to establish the War College. Emory Upton (August 27, 1839 – March 15, 1881) was a United States Army General and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments. His work, The Military Policy of the United States, which analyzed American military policies and practices and presented the first systematic examination of the nation's military history, had a tremendous effect on the U.S. Army when it was published posthumously in 1904. Impressed with the lessons of the Franco-Prussian War, U.S. Army Commanding General William T. Sherman sent Upton on a tour of Europe and Asia to study military organizations, but with a special emphasis on the German Army. Upon his return, Upton wrote The Armies of Europe and Asia, which warned that European armies had developed soldiering as a profession to a more advanced state than the U.S. Army. Upton presented 54 pages of recommendations for changes in the Army, including that it establish advanced military schools, a general staff, a system of personnel evaluation reports, and promotion by examination. He was appointed superintendent of theoretical instruction at the Artillery School of Practice located at Fort Monroe, Virginia, where he emphasized combined arms tactics. Upton is considered one of the most influential young reformers of the United States Army in the 19th century,[11] arguably in U.S. history. He has been called the U.S. Army's counterpart to United States Navy reformer and strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan. His greatest impact was a work he called The Military Policy of the United States from 1775. He worked for years on the paper, but it was incomplete at the time of his death in 1881. Henry A. DuPont, Upton's West Point classmate and a close friend, acquired a copy of the uncompleted manuscript. It circulated widely throughout the Army's officer corps and helped to foment much discussion. After the Spanish–American War, Secretary of War Elihu Root read the manuscript and ordered that the War Department publish it under the title The Military Policy of the United States. Many of the Army's so-called Root Reforms of the early twentieth century were inspired by Upton and his works. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Emory Upton, Oliver Otis Howard, Stephen Luce, Dai Nippon, Staff-Officer, Battle of Nashville, Army Etymology, North Pole, Military Education, Naval Constructors, Campaign Against the Utes, Indians of the Southwest, Paraguay Expedition, Sea-coast Can
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