The history of the A& Mcollege trouble, 1908 . et at West Point. Ex-Governor Joseph D. Sayershonored him with this, he being at that time Congressman from the NinthCongressional District. Captain Moses graduated in 1897 from West Point. He married MissJessie Fisher of Austin, in September of the same year. Their daughterMiss Kathleen Moses is a very charming young lady who promises someday to make a young officer forget the mess-call. After his graduation he was posted at Whipple Barracks, Prescott,Arizona. In 1898 he was transferred to the artillery corps stationed at Fort Slo- HISTORY OF THE
The history of the A& Mcollege trouble, 1908 . et at West Point. Ex-Governor Joseph D. Sayershonored him with this, he being at that time Congressman from the NinthCongressional District. Captain Moses graduated in 1897 from West Point. He married MissJessie Fisher of Austin, in September of the same year. Their daughterMiss Kathleen Moses is a very charming young lady who promises someday to make a young officer forget the mess-call. After his graduation he was posted at Whipple Barracks, Prescott,Arizona. In 1898 he was transferred to the artillery corps stationed at Fort Slo- HISTORY OF THE A. AND M. TROUBLE. XV. cum, New York, and afterwards at Fort Preble, Maine. During the latterpart of the Spanish-American war, he was stationed at Philadelphia as re-cruiting officer where he broke all records in obtaining men for he was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, and in October, 1901, receiveda captains commission and ordered to Havana, Cuba. He remained over ayear, being for the greater part of the time a staff CAPTAIN ANDREW MOSES Commandant of Cadets. Then he was again ordered to Fort Preble, Maine. In 1905 he, with tenother captains, were ordered to Totten, N. Y. to take a special course insubmarine defense of coast artillery. He graduated at Fort Totten and wasthen ordered to Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. He remained at Fort Moul- XVI. HISTORY OF THE A. AND M. TROUBLE. trie until Sept. 1, 1907, at which time he was ordered to report at the A. andM. as military instructor. On arriving at A. and M. he succeeded CaptainSargent, a man who had been in the service thirty years, who had cam-paigned against the Sioux, who had fought the Spaniards in Cuba and achiev-ed fame fighting the Bolomen of the Phillipine Islands. Captain Sargent has written several very essential books and for fouryears he had occupied the chair of Commandant at the A. and M. College ofTexas. Captain Moses was not as Captain Sargent, he had not had as much ex-perience as Cap
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