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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and soldiers of the genuine type have their faults; no one understands this better than we. Greed of gain is not among them. Carelessness of consequences when under excitement is characteristic of their type, and this may mislead them into faults offensive to pharisaical propriety. But they arc not the faults most destructive to the generous impulses from which the soul draws its life. The veteran may lag superfluous on the stage the foundations of which are laid in his self-forgetfulness and his sacrifices; he may, when the memories of the past possess him, linger somewhat too fondly and too tediously on the weres and might-have-beens; before those dimmed eyes may rise visions of days departed, and of comradeships that seem like those Ulysses and Dante sought among the shades, but let us not forget that he represents the ideas and the sentiments that have, in all time, and in every clime, moved the hearts of the manliest, and set in motion those mighty forces that make nations great.--Army and Navy Journal. The Military Order Of The Loyal Legion, District of Columbia Commandery, held a meeting May 1 in Willard Hall, Washington. It was the last meeting of the Legion until the first Wednesday in November next. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Gen. Albert Ordway, commander; Col. George A. Woodward, senior vice-commander; Capt. Frederick V. McNair, junior vice-commander; Maj. William P. Huxford, recorder; Naval Constructor Theodore D. Wilson, registrar; Maj. Marcus S. Hopkins, treasurer; Capt. Crosby P. Miller, chancellor; Chaplain James H. Bradford, chaplain. There were about one hundred and fifty members present, and the ticket was elected unanimously. After the business of the Legion was finished the meeting...