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Title: Forty-Six Years in the Army

Author: John M. Schofield

Release Date: May 11, 2007 [EBook #21417]

Language: English

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FORTY-SIX YEARS
IN THE ARMY

[Frontispiece]
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY FALK.
[Facsimile Signature]
J.M.Schofield

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THE YOUNG CITIZENS WHOSE PATRIOTISM,
VALOR AND MILITARY SKILL MUST BE THE SAFEGUARD OF THE INTERESTS,
THE HONOR AND THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN UNION

FORTY-SIX YEARS
IN THE ARMY

BY
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
JOHN M. SCHOFIELD

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1897

Copyright, 1897
by The Century Co.

The De Vinne Press.

PREFACE

Most of the chapters constituting the contents of this volume, were
written, from time to time, as soon as practicable after the events
referred to, or after the publication of historical writings which
seemed to me to require comment from the point of view of my personal
knowledge. They were written entirely without reserve, and with
the sole purpose of telling exactly what I thought and believed,
not with any purpose of publication in my lifetime, but as my
contribution to the materials which may be useful to the impartial
historian of some future generation. These writings had been put
away for safe-keeping with "instructions for the guidance of my
executors," in which I said:

"All the papers must be carefully revised, errors corrected if any
are found, unimportant matter eliminated, and everything omitted
which may seem, to a cool and impartial judge,