Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1854, May 12 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1877 | Graduated United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1877-circa 1891 | Served with Ninth and Tenth Cavalry regiments in the American West |
| 1883 | Married Mary Braxton Dallam (died circa 1941) |
| 1884 | Published Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office |
| 1891 | Published Principles of Strategy: Illustrated Mainly from American Campaigns. London: T. Fisher Unwin |
| 1894-1898 | Professor of military science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1896 | Published "The Tenth Regiment of Cavalry"in The Army of the United States; Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief. New York: Maynard, Merrill & Co. |
| 1898-1903 | Served in the Spanish-American War with Tenth Cavalry Regiment; wounded four times in attack on San Juan Hill and awarded Silver Star during Spanish-American War; later investigated Spanish war claims |
| 1899 | Published Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign. New York: Harper & Brothers |
| 1904 | Superintendent, Yosemite National Park, California Retired from army |
| 1905-1910 | Professor of French, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1906-1909 | Served in Adjutant General's Office, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia |
| 1910 | Published The Campaign at Chancellorsville. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press |
| 1914 | Published American Policy: The Western Hemisphere in Its Relation to the Eastern. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1915 | Published World Peace: How War Cannot Be Abolished; How It May Be Abolished. New York: Mitchell Kennerley |
| 1917 | Published Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties. New York: Sturgis & Walton |
| 1917-1918 | Professor of military science, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J. |
| 1918-1919 | Recalled to active duty and assigned to history branch of general staff, War Department, Washington, D.C. |
| 1919 | Retired from army |
| 1936, Feb. 29 | Died, Washington, D.C. |