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A Self-Made Soldier

June 22, 1918 issue

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The article analyzes the book "The Life of Lieutenant-General Chaffee," by William Harding Carter. It deals with the life and works of Adna R. Chaffee, the Lieutenant-General of the U.S. Army. Of New England ancestry, but born on a farm in the Western Reserve of Ohio and obtaining rudiments of an education in a country school, his ambition to be a soldier found its sole satisfaction in the drill given by an old sergeant to him and his fellow-members of a Wide-Awake association in the Lincoln campaign of 1860.

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LIFE of Lieutenant-General Chaffee, The (Book); CARTER, William Harding; CHAFFEE, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914; LIEUTENANT governors; ARMIES -- Officers; EDUCATION, Rural
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