1907 US
Army Deserters Enlistments Recruiting Research Military History Article
This 116+ year old ORIGINAL vintage article,The
Trouble with the Army, from the Standpoint of the Enlisted Man, was
carefully removed from the Worlds Work magazine published in 1907.
Written
by Edgar Allen Forbes, this article is 13 pages with 22 illustrations.
Page size is 7x10" (00230) 7/23
A
Partial List of Illustrations includes:
West Point
Cadets Drilling as Cavalry
Army Life, as
seen by the artist of the War Department
Army Life as the
recruit sees it
An unusually
fine type of soldier
United States
soldiers in Khaki Uniform
United States
soldier in tropical service
American
soldiers at dinner
Panama Canal
diggers at dinner
The soldiers
temporary camp of "dog tents"
A temporary camp
of Jamaica negroes in Panama
Brig. Gen. John
B. Castleman, U.S.V.
The
ever-increasing ratio of desertion
The first years
pay of some uniformed men in New York
and more...
Condition: Good Condition with some light toning and soiling to the
pages due to age.
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