Nelson Appleton Miles letters 1875-1898
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Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...
Baldwin, Frank Dwight, 1842-1923
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Frank Baldwin (1842-1923) was born in Manchester (Mich.) and graduated from Hillsdale College and the Univ. of Mich. He enrolled in the Chandler Horse Guard in 1861, eventually rising to the rank of Maj. Gen. Frank received two Congressional Medals of Honor. Alice Blackwood Baldwin (1846- ) was the daughter of Thomas Blackwood and graduated from Albion Female Seminary. She married Frank in 1867. Alice wrote a biography of her husband. She died after 1929 in Santa Monica (Calif.), while visiting ...
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...
