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The United States Army in the Spanish-American War
Graham A. Cosmas
Texas A&M University Press College Station
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Copyright 1994 by Graham A. Cosmas Preface to the Second Edition copyright White Mane publishing Company, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved
First Texas A&M University edition, 1998
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability
First Printing, 1971, by The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri Second Printing, 1994, with supplemental materials, by White Mane Publishing Co., Inc. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cosmas, Graham A. An army for empire: the United States Army in the Spanish-American War / Graham A. Cosmas. p. cm. Originally published: The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1971. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89096-816-0 1. United States. ArmyHistorySpanish-American War, 1898. I. Title [E725.3.C6 1998] 97-38407 973.8'9dc21 CIP
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To Jean Carter Cosmas and George Cosmas
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Acknowledgments
I should like to thank the staffs of the following libraries and archives, without whose gracious and unstinting assistance this book never could have been written:
The Ainsworth Search Room, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
The Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
The Michigan Historical Collections, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thanks are also due to my graduate advisers, Professor Edward M. Coffman and Professor Richard N. Current, for their invaluable guidance and support at every stage of the project and to Professor Bernard H. Cohen and the directors of the National Security Studies Group at The University of Wisconsin for financial assistance that made possible a year of research in Washington, D.C.
G.A.C. ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA MAY, 1973
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Contents
Acknowledgments,
v
List of Illustrations and Maps,
viii
Guide to Footnote Abbreviations,
x
Preface to the Second Edition,
xi
Introduction,
xv
1. The War Department and the Army, 1898,
1
2. The Men and Their Ideas,
29
3. The Shaping of Military Policy,
63
4. Mobilization Begins; Strategy Changes,
103
5. Command, Administration, and Supply,
133
6. Organizing the Invasion Forces,
173
7. The Army in Combat,
201
8. Sickness and Scandal,
247
9. An Army for Empire,
297
Bibliography,
327
Index,
339
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List of Illustrations and Maps
Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, U.S.A.,
23
Major General Nelson A. Miles,
48
Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger,
49
Adjutant General Henry C. Corbin,
50
President William McKinley,
69
Major General William R. Shafter,
102
Major General Wesley Merritt, U.S.A., Commander of the Expedition to Manila,
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