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on the western frontier in the Fourth Artillery and then against the Indians
in Florida. Foreseeing the War of Secession, he resigned from the United
States Army and was appointed Captain in the Confederate Army. From
the surrender of Sumter in 1861 to Johnston's surrender in 1865, he served
with ability in every department-artillery, cavalry, infantry-in Virginia,
Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee and was promoted on merit successively
through every grade of military rank from captain to lieutenant general.
At the close of the Civil War, General Lee made Columbus, Mississippi,
his home. Twelve years of his life were passed here as a planter, practically
and unconsciously preparing himself for his work as an industrial educator.
He served as the first president of this institution from 1880 to May 1,
1899. He was one of the first southerners to advocate industrial education.
He believed that a student's education was not complete without a course
in military science and discipline. He laid great stress upon the teaching
of better methods in agriculture to Yl)ung men and the dissemination of
helpful knowledge through bulletins and institutes to our farmers. He
taught the need and dignity of labor, especially skilled labor. He insisted
on clearness, thoroughness, and readiness or "snap," in his students and
instructors.
One of his successors here said of him, "The success of this college and
the good it is to do in the years to come will be due, more than to anything
else, to the splendid foundation work done by General Stephen D. Lee, its
first President."
General Lee died at Yicksburg, Mississippi, May 28, 1908, "beloved
by every man, woman, and child in Dixie Land where he left the impress of
his strong personality."
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B. M. \'if ALKER,President
R. E. GRINSTEAD,
Lieutenant Colonel, C. S. A., Retired,
Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
Foreign Publications
THE ARTILLERYOF THE PAST, PRESE:'irA:'iDFCTCRE.-A writer in the Militiirl/Tochenblatt
of May 4, 1926, gives a brief notice of a recently published work
under the foregoing title written by General Herr of the French Army which, the
writer states, has been translated into German by Colonel Hirsch of the German
Army.
The writer congratulates the German artillery service for having this work
available in translation and says that the significance of the work is such that
knowledge of its contents is a service duty for the artillerist, and allusion. is
again made to it in order to direct the attention of other arms of the service to it.
Part I or the hook gi'ies the strength and tactics of the French and German
artillery at the beginning of the war and proceeds with a continued discussion of
war operations on the west front and the lessons to be derived therefrom, and
the measures to he taken by the artillery in respect to increased strength, organi-
zation, firing methods, and efficiency of fire. Part n treats of artillery and its use
in tactical problems; the attributes that its material must possess; its use,
organization, and leadership direction. In Part III reference is made to the
artillery required in peace time, its technical studies, industrial mobilization,
or~anization as a function of mobilization, and its training. Part IV presents
what has heen achieved in France and other countries since the war in the
domain of artillery. While the work covers all essential technical artillery questions
the hook is written in such language that, while treating of strictly and purely
artillery technique, it is readily understood by the non-professional artilleryman.