Identifier: thevolunteersold00loga (find matches)
Title: The volunteer soldier of America
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886 Logan, Cornelius Ambrose, 1836-1899
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Chicago and New York : R. S. Peale & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ins from the extended comment whichthis phase of the subject so plainly invites, and contentshimself with presenting the facts to the consideration of hisfellow-citizens. That a radical reform in our whole sys-tem of military and naval education is urgently demanded,no reflecting mind will dispute after a careful perusal ofthe facts relating to those branches of the public servicewhich have been massed in the present volume, and theauthor but manifests his confidence in the enlightenedjudgment of the citizens of the United States whenexpressing the belief that, after their attention has beencalled not alone to the requirements of the public situa-tion, but also to the plain demands of justice, the Ameri-can volunteer—as the pivotal point upon which thesecurity of our people and the perpetuation of their liber-ties so safely rest—will receive the full meed of appreci-ation and the exact measure of justice to which hispatriotism and his self-sacrifice so richly entitle him. THE END.
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APPENDIX. MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR IN THE WEST FROM THE JOURNAL OF JOHN A. LOGAN, LATE MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS, U. S. A. 61/ MILITARY REMINISCENCES. These Reminiscences have been compiled by the editor from the journalof General Logan. The manuscript covers a complete history of the mil-itary operations of the Union armies of the West, from the battle ofBehnont to the surrender of General Johnston. The very limited spaceat the present comma?id of the editor has Jiecessitatcd a condefisation ofmaterial which presents the merest outline of General Logan s valuablecontribiction to the history of the War ifi the West. But the extractshere given, in the forjn of Remi?iiscences, brief as they are, cannot fail tobe of great interest to the readers of The Volunteer Soldier. C. A. L. • The Battle of Belmont. CAIRO was the most important military point in the West atthe outbreak of the War of the Rebellion. Its topographicalsituation is remarkable. It is the point where the Missi

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