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or a magazine gun is greatly in its favor.Black Powder. The volunteer regiments, with the exception of the Rough Riders, werearmed with the Springfield rifle, using black powder. The disadvantages under which theylabored, from their unfortunate armament, had not been unforeseen, but had been commentedupon frequently before the war began. Yet the argument had been frequently advanced thatthe Springfield was a much simpler rifle than the Krag-Jorgensen, and that it would consequentlybe a better one to place in the hands of untrained troops. The natural reply that thisargument, if carried to its logical conclusion, would justify arming the volunteers with spearsand clubs, as being still simpler weapons, does not always seem to have been relished by theadvocates of the old rifle. Certainly those who condemned the Springfield rifle before the warfound their views abundantly sustained by the experience of battle. On one occasion, on the10th of July, I heard orders given to the 2d Massachusetts to cease firing, and this regimentremained in the line without firing a shot, because it was felt that the target afforded by itssmoke, and the annoyance caused by the same smoke to the troops on its left, were so harmfulas to more than neutralize any good results that could be obtained from its fire. A practicalcriticism of the Springfield rifle was found in the fact that after the 1st of July no Krag-Jorgensen rifle could be left lying around unguarded without being taken by some volunteer—an act of appropriation too clearly justified by the instinct of self-preservation to be characterizedas theft....Smokeless Powder. The Santiago campaign was the first in which our Army used smokelesspowder, and, with the exception of the brief war between Greece and Turkey in 1897, itwas the first in which such powder has ever been used in war. The results were interesting;not that they developed anything unforeseen, but mainly as a confirmation of views alreadyentertained in regard to the use of the new ammunition (i.e., The advantages of smokelesspowder will probably rest with the defensive rather than the offensive. The position of thedefenders was formerly outlined with smoke; and the commander acting on the offensive couldthus give the assailing troops a proper direction from the beginning of the fight. This will nowbe much more difficult....) As to the morale of the men, I am of the opinion that it had beenimproved instead of impaired by the introduction of smokeless powder; the absence of thebewilderment caused by smoke more than compensating for the clearer view of the casualtiesof battle.Wagner found that two pieces of equipment in particular were especially useful:Intrenching Tools. It was unfortunate that each infantry soldier was not provided with agood intrenching tool. The necessity for such implements was immediate and urgent as soonas the Spanish position had been carried, and it would have been much better if the men hadbeen provided with immediate means of making good intrenchments, instead of being compelled,while waiting for picks and shovels to be sent up from the rear, to construct hastyintrenchments with halves of canteens, pocket knives and finger nails. The best intrenchingtool is probably the linnemann spade, or some modification of it. If such tools had beenprovided, many of them doubtless would have been thrown away before the 1st of July; butnone would have been lost after that date. I was strongly impressed with the utility of themachete carried by the Cuban troops. It is not only a weapon, but a tool adapted to manydiverse uses. For hewing through tropical undergrowth, cutting through barb-wire fences, formany purposes of camp use, and as a weapon, it is alike valuable. It would probably be well,especially when troops are operating in the tropics, to provide each non-commissioned officer132 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
with a machete. 82Model 1892 Colt revolver.Model 1896 Krag-Jorgenson rifle.Model 1903 Springfield rifle.A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM133
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Turn of the Century at Fort Huachuc
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There was an aggregate of 3,506 off
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There’s always gambling after pay
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cacti of the Arizona desert made it
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Two years later there was more exci
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A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUS
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Historical perspective tells us tha
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pursue, capture or destroy any host
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“Lieutenant James M. Watson, Tent
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TimelineIn 1887 an earthquake start
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In 1895 there were 27,495 men in th
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Slim Jim, the Apache Kid, and an un
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Rowdy “loved campaigning and figh
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spent in these would be a total los
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Clark, Carrie Anna, the postmistres
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Interior of the officer’s quarter
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In July 1894, troops of the 24th In
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“Aunt Leona and Cyril in snow, Fo
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“Our Christmas Tree, 1894, Fort H
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Group of officers at Huachuca in 18
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“Croquet Ground, 1894.”A troop
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Officers and ladies on a picnic at
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large formations, train and equip t
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Charles Johnson Post, Embarking for
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The experience is said to have taug
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and of mistreating Filipino prisone
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Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler.60 HUACHUC
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Brig. Gen. S.S. Sumner62 HUACHUCA I
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two determined attacks by the enemy
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Cavalry and would become the leadin
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Marchbanks, for having his horse sh
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Shafter took instead the advice of
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position and Santiago de Cuba. They
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In the front row, from left to righ
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would have been more apparent.Gener
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A sketch of life in the Cuba campai
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El CaneyLawton, with his 5,400-man
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Roll Call: Sam Kee—Cantonese Paym
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Roll Call: Colonel John C. Gresham
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Digital montage of U.S. Army intell
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During the 1890s, the MID accomplis
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Secretary of War Elihu Root with me
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partially by the church); on the ea
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