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Title: The Story of General Pershing

Author: Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

Release Date: April 7, 2010 [eBook #31914]

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THE STORY OF GENERAL PERSHING

[Illustration: General Pershing.]

THE STORY OF GENERAL PERSHING

by

EVERETT T. TOMLINSON

Author of "Fighters Young Americans Want to Know," Etc.

[Illustration]

Illustrated

D. Appleton and Company
New York London
1919

Copyright, 1919, by
D. Appleton and Company

Printed in the United States of America

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE writer gratefully acknowledges the aid he has received in the
preparation of this book. To President Greene and Mr. J. E. Bell of
William Jewell College, Missouri, he is under special obligations. Mr.
Bell in order to aid the writer spent several days in Linn County,
Missouri, verifying and obtaining facts. To Mr. Herbert Putnam of the
Library of Congress, Mr. John Cotton Dana of the Newark, New Jersey,
Public Library, and to Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick of the St. Louis Public
Library he owes a special debt of gratitude for bibliographies and
carefully prepared suggestions as to sources of information. From
Cashin's "Under Fire with the 10th U. S. Cavalry," Missouri State
Historic