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Introduction
The call to arms after the destruction of the Maine, in 1898, fired the blood of every American lad from the Atlantic to the Pacific, each eager to identify himself in some way with struggle which was destined to reveal the United States as the great World power of the Twentieth Century. The recruiting offices were thronged with applicants for enlistment; the sturdiest youths of the country clamored for a chance to go and fight, and among the most zealous of those was Douglas Atwell, of Eastern New York.
At the temporary recruiting ofiice, at Middletown he was chagrined to find that he was not eligible. "No one can enlist who is not yet eighteen,” said the recruiting officer, and as Douglas laccked nearly a year, he was forced to return to home and merely wait for time to pass.
It was not, therefore, until the war clouds began hovering over the Philippines, the following year, that Douglas was permitted to begin his eventful career in the United States Army.
As a recruit of but three days’ experience he saw the first hostile shots flash out across the San Juan River on the night of February 4, 1899, and the next day he participated in the memorable charge of his company on blockhouse, N0. 14.
The story of Douglas Atwell’s service in the campaign through the jungles of Luzon is told in this volume. For his gallant conduct in. that fearful ordeal he was appointed by the President a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy.
The trying experiences which fell to the lot of this country lad from the old Shawangunks while serving at the nation’s war school on the Hudson, and elsewhere, are related in --
“A PLEBE AT WEST POINT;”
“A WEST POINT YEARLING ; ”
“ A WEST POINT CADET ; ”
“ A WEST POINT LIEUTENANT."
PAUL B. MALONE,
Major-General U. S. A.
The call to arms after the destruction of the Maine, in 1898, fired the blood of every American lad from the Atlantic to the Pacific, each eager to identify himself in some way with struggle which was destined to reveal the United States as the great World power of the Twentieth Century. The recruiting offices were thronged with applicants for enlistment; the sturdiest youths of the country clamored for a chance to go and fight, and among the most zealous of those was Douglas Atwell, of Eastern New York.
At the temporary recruiting ofiice, at Middletown he was chagrined to find that he was not eligible. "No one can enlist who is not yet eighteen,” said the recruiting officer, and as Douglas laccked nearly a year, he was forced to return to home and merely wait for time to pass.
It was not, therefore, until the war clouds began hovering over the Philippines, the following year, that Douglas was permitted to begin his eventful career in the United States Army.
As a recruit of but three days’ experience he saw the first hostile shots flash out across the San Juan River on the night of February 4, 1899, and the next day he participated in the memorable charge of his company on blockhouse, N0. 14.
The story of Douglas Atwell’s service in the campaign through the jungles of Luzon is told in this volume. For his gallant conduct in. that fearful ordeal he was appointed by the President a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy.
The trying experiences which fell to the lot of this country lad from the old Shawangunks while serving at the nation’s war school on the Hudson, and elsewhere, are related in --
“A PLEBE AT WEST POINT;”
“A WEST POINT YEARLING ; ”
“ A WEST POINT CADET ; ”
“ A WEST POINT LIEUTENANT."
PAUL B. MALONE,
Major-General U. S. A.
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Penn Publishing,(1904) 1st,Hdbk,,,Fair