...Daniel R. Beaver Pipe Clay and Drill—John J. Pershing: The Classic American Soldier . By Goldhurst Richard . Reader’s Digest Press ; distributed by Thomas Y. Crowell Company , New York , 1977 . Pp. 343 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 253...

...Chase Going Woodhouse Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Volume XVII OCTOBER, 1918 Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Returning the Soldier to Civilian Life Chase Going Woodhousb Smith College The old idea that a pension is the right of every man who has served his country...

...Theodore Ropp The American Soldier . Volume I: Adjustment during Army Life , and Volume II: Combat and Its Aftermath . By Stouffer Samuel A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 599 , and 675 . Volumes I and II together, $13.50. ; separately, $7.50...

...Theodore Ropp James Longstreet. I. Soldier . By Sanger Donald Bridgman . II . Politician, Officeholder, and Writer . By Hay Thomas Robson . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 460 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953...

... by a collection of key excerpts from the books which are known to have filled colonial libraries. ROBERT F. durden Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade. The Journal of a Confed­ erate Soldier. Edited by A. D. Kirwan. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1956. Pp. xxviii, 217. $3.50. Johnny Green spent four...

...Theodore Ropp Enoch H. Crowder: Soldier, Lawyer, and Statesman . By Lockmiller David A. . Columbia : The University of Missouri Studies , 1955 . Pp. 286 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 393 Joyce. He writes with gusto and wit, though...

...Clyde Olin Fisher Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Relief of Soldiers Families in North Caro­ lina During the Civil War* Clyde Olin Fisher Fellow in Political Economy and Finance in Cornell University Contributions for the relief of soldiers families in North Carolina...

...Richard A. Preston The Civil War: A Soldier’s View . By Henderson Colonel G. F. R. . Edited by Luvaas Jay . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1958 . Pp. xii , 323 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 526 The South Atlantic Quarterly time...

...Philip Alexander Bruce, LL.D. Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 Volume XVI JANUARY, 1917 Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly Recollections of My Plantation Teachers Philip Alexander Bruce, LL. D. Author of Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers and Other Works Half a century...

... by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the military airfields and harbors have supported American interests and operations across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. While...

... and age pension law similar to the Mexican war act of January 29, 1887. Prior to 1890 no pensions were granted to civil war soldiers except for disability directly traceable to military service. The original rate for total disability (which was understood as total inability to perform manual labor...

...William H. Glasson Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Federal and Confederate Pensions in the South. By William H. Glasson, Professor of Economics in Trinity College. From the early days of the Civil War the soldiers of the Union armies enjoyed the benefit of pension provisions...

... navigation. Though Jarrell did not get overseas and into combat, his war poems are a sustained and impassioned attempt to understand the nature of war, especially air war, and the experience of being a soldier during World War II. Since World War II was what we might call a justifiable or at least...

... One Man s Initiation 1917 (1920) and Three Soldiers (1921) were among the first American novels about World War I. The first book excited comparatively few readers, but Three Soldiers marked Dos Passos as a significant new writer who had either exposed the truth of army life or desecrated the nation s...

...; by August, Camp Wadsworth was vir­ tually complete and already filled with soldiers. It acquired a bustling existence of its own, with band concerts and Liberty Bond drives. Before long it was publishing its own newspaper, under the improbable title Wadsworth Gas Attack and Rio Grande Rattler. Spartanburg...

... recorded on the printed page. How it quickens your interest if you have seen in the flesh the hero you read about! I never saw General Lee, but it is perhaps pardonable if under the impulse of my present enthusiasm I group together some of the most striking facts in the life of the great soldier who...

... with the attempt of German socialists to transfer an idealized institution, the Russian soviet (council of workers and soldiers deputies), from Russia to Germany in 19171918. By 1917 the German socialists were split into three groups: Majority Socialists (SPD), Independent Socialists (USPD), and several leftist...

.... They had seen young men of other generations seizing the mighty Venture with a pas­ sionate grip, grappling with the monster, Death, each like a new Hercules, unselfishly, in behalf of some ideal Alcestis. When war was declared in August, 1914, grey-haired soldiers smiled sadly to hear the cheers...

... of the soldier class would have restrained the disaffected for some time after the latter were willing to act. Except for this fear the minority could have controlled affairs from the last of 1864. For a year there had been indications which seemed to show that the discontented were thinking of a coup d etat...

..., invalid pension laws and service pension laws. Invalid pension laws are those passed on behalf of persons who have received injuries or contracted disease in the line of duty in military service. Provisions for the benefit of the widows and children of soldiers who have died as the result of such dis­...