Manual of Guard Duty, United States Army.; Approved June 14, 1902.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Leather bound. War Department Document No. 167. vii, [1], 97, [1] pages. Index. Ink marks noted at pages 20 and 21. Cover worn and soiled. Fep had become detached but has been taped to front board. Inside the front board is a lengthy printed stated to the effect that this manual was the property of the United States and was for official use. It bears the stamp of Troop B, 6th Cavalry in several places. It is also stamped Private Library Vol. No. 5 Charles A. Dunnell of Troop H and bears the signature and affiliation of Dunnell on the detached fep. The Manual of Guard Duty prepared by a board of officers consisting of Maj. Alexander Rodgers, Fourth Cavalry, Capt. William Lassiter, Artillery Corps, and Capt. Oscar J. Charles, Fourth Infantry was approved and published for the government of the armies of the United States by Elihu Root, Secretary of War. Rodgers was a 1875 graduate of West Point and served in several Cavalry Regiments during his 30 plus years of military service. He retired in 1911 but was recalled to active duty; commanding Fort Riley, Kans., Sept. 27, 1917, to March 29, 1918. William Lassiter (September 29, 1867- March 29, 1959) was a career in the United States Army. He was a veteran of the Spanish–American War, Occupation of Veracruz, World War I, and Occupation of the Rhineland and attained the rank of major general. From 1904 to 1908, Lassiter was assigned as a member and of the Army board that developed and implemented an update to the Field Artillery Drill Regulations. The 6th Cavalry ("Fighting Sixth'") is a regiment of the United States Army that began as a regiment of cavalry in the American Civil War. In 1898, the Spanish–American War broke out and the 6th Cavalry was quickly recalled from their frontier postings and sent to camp in Florida where they awaited for transport to Cuba. After being forced to give up most of their horses and some of their men in order to fit on the ship, the 6th finally arrived in the theater of war on 24 June 1898. The 6th was commonly posted near Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders," and the men gave the US Volunteers a nickname; the "Weary Walkers," because their horses were left in Florida as well. On 1 July 1898, at the start of the Battle of San Juan Hill, the men started forward under heavy fire and clawed their way through thick vegetation headed for the top of the hill. Advance elements of the 6th passed by US troops who had been pinned down and they began to cheer, which drew the attention of Spanish gunners, who fired grape shot into the 6th Cavalry's line. Under the covering fire of Gatling Guns, the men managed to take the heights, and settled in for renewed fighting in the morning. The men held the heights until 4 July, when a truce was initiated to exchange prisoners. In 1900, the 6th Cavalry Regiment was part of the International China Relief Expedition with the objective of relieving the defenders of the Beijing Legation Quarter in Peking, China during the Boxer Rebellion. During the march to Peking, the 6th Cavalry acted as the expedition's scouting force and acted as pickets to protect the column from Chinese attack. Unlike in Cuba, the 6th Cavalry had their mounts for the campaign and were well suited to the cavalry role of scouting and screening. Shortly after campaigning in China, the 6th Cavalry was sent to the Philippines to join the Philippine–American War. From 1900–1903 they conducted counter-insurgency patrols and had several violent encounters with Emilio Aguinaldo's rebels. It is possible that this manual was in the possession of Dunnell during the operations in the Philippines in 1902-3. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Military Manual, 6th Cavalry, Charles Dunnell, Guard Duty, Sentinels, Prisoners, Supernumeraries, Guard Patrols, Countersigns, Paroles, Military Police, Stable Sergeant, Stable Orderly, Fatigue Duty, Reveille, Retreat Gun, Musicians of the Guard
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