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Message started by butlersrangers on Apr 16th, 2018 at 5:28pm

Title: Re: I love this photo!
Post by butlersrangers on Apr 18th, 2018 at 6:22pm
'Local Boy' - Interesting content & details about mobilization for the Philippine Campaign.

Some of the illustrations and photographs display the survival of drill and tactics used in the Civil War and before.

Concentrating men, to 'defend' prominently displayed 'Colors', may have looked good on the Parade Ground, but, was downright 'suicidal' in the new era of smokeless powder and high velocity jacketed projectiles.

Being an Alaskan, I am sure you have seen this photo of the 24th Inf. (Co. L), at Dyea, Alaska, in 1899. They relieved the 14th. Infantry at this post. However, the decline of Dyea and a forest fire resulted in Co. L moving over to Skagway.
Alaska-Dyea-1899_001.jpg ( 202 KB | 0 Downloads )

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