Address To Army Associations / And / Miscellaneous Papers Relating / To Civil And Spanish Wars

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_____A most uncommon entry in this officer's bibliography._____ It is in none of the standard bibliographies and has not apparently been recently cataloged. _____ Most of the speeches deal with his view of the Civil War in the east. _____ But his 1902 address to the Army of the Southwest includes a discussion of the Pea Ridge Campaign and Indian warfare at the close of the Civil War._____ . _____ Other papers discuss his involvement with building the Union Pacific. _____ One of the stranger exchanges is his defense of the administration of the "water cure" to a captured revolutionary in the Philippines._____ It is not clear what this "cure" entailed, but suspect it is a variant of "water boarding." It seems that some._____American newspapers were appalled by its application._____ Dodge finds this apparently temporary punishment more humane than some of the atrocities applied to captives during the Civil and Indian Wars, which he details. _____ The lower forecorner of the front cover has been lost and there are modern tape repairs to one page. _____. N° de ref. del artículo 18328

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