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Title: The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Fort Sheridan Association Girton, Fred
Subjects: Fort Sheridan (Ill.). Military training camp World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Chicago?) : The Fort Sheridan Association
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the country, sat on the side of his bunk at the close of one of these earlydays. He w^as not physically tired. He was too well-trained for that—but hew^as evidently all in. What had happened? Well, the A. B. C.s of militarytraining was too much for the mind that knew how to handle big affairs with-out strain. No one w^ill know how^ conscientiously these men tried to memorize everyword, every detail of those infantry regulations, repeating them by day andby night—perfecting each page as though life itself depended upon it. Theymade their brains sw^eat. They opened up the old avenues of memory. Theirw^ills forced the old brain to go back and to master the methods of youth.They learned what they should have learned as boys as a part of their citizen-ship, the ability not merely to protect themselves but to protect their countryas leaders. No man of forty who went through those early days will ever forget howimpossible it seemed to ever master the essentials of military training upon
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INSTRUCTORS. SECOND CAMP Front Row (left to right) C^apt. L. E. Cummings, Capt. L. H. Cook, Capt. Max Murdock, Capt. W. H. Young.Back Row (left to right) Capt. Cecil M. Harris, Maj. Philip Fox, Capt. G. G. Griggs. 334 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

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