The United Service; A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Interests of the Military, Naval, and Civil Service Volume XIV, Issues 1, 2 and 3

iv, 348 pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Bottom edge of the bound volume covers stained but there appears to be no such impact on the interior pages. The cover has other wear and soiling. The covers of the three issues have been bound into the volume. Front board weak and has been restrengthened with glue. Stamp on fep. This magazine was apparently published between 1879 and 1905, Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly was the son of Lewis Hamersly, who was the initial editor of this professional journal. The magazine may have had variations in its title and its publisher. Among the contents listed are: Navy Department Reorganization; Battle of Stone River by Major-General R. W. Johnson; Sherman's Campaign of 1864 by Brigadier-General O. O. Howard; Recollections of a Western Volunteer by S. J. Bumstead; West Point by N. J. T. Dana; The National Guard by Horatio C. King; Cadet Life at West Point during the War by Captain Charles King; The Military Power of Columbia by Lieutenant H. R. Lemly; Indian Wars of Texas by James DeShields; The Value of Puget Sound as a Naval Station by William Prosser; A Woman's Tribute to General McClellan by Elizabeth B. Custer; Anthony Wayne by J. Watts de Peyster; and an Editorial Note on The Grant Monument in New York and General Grant's Memoirs. This volume contains the rare appreciation by the author of General George McClellan. Her husband, George Armstrong Custer, first rose to fame as a cavalry leader while serving under General McClellan in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Elizabeth Bacon Custer (née Bacon; April 8, 1842 - April 4, 1933) was an American author and public speaker who was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry. Left nearly destitute in the aftermath of her husband's death, she became an outspoken advocate for his legacy through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her decades of campaigning on his behalf, General Custer's image as the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand was a canon of American history for almost a century after his death, and endures in many quarters to this day. Elizabeth Custer never remarried and died in 1933, four days short of her 91st birthday. She was said to treasure a letter from President Theodore Roosevelt who stated that her husband was "one of my heroes" and "a shining light to all the youth of America." She was buried next to her husband at West Point. A few years before her death she told a writer that her greatest disappointment was that she never had a son to bear her husband's honored name. George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 - October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862. He was also an engineer, and was chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad, and later president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860. A West Point graduate, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican-American War before leaving the United States Army to serve as a railway executive and engineer until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising the Army of the Potomac, which served in the Eastern Theater. McClellan organized and led the Union Army in the Peninsula campaign in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862. Custer got his first taste of war mere weeks after his graduation, at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, where he gained the attention of General George McClellan. He soon joined McClellan's staff, and fought d. …