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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