. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ seat, named RoseHill, after the spacious and elegant home of hisgreat-great-great-grandfather (which was beautifullysituated in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scot-land), near Tivoli post office and station, on theHudson. THE 1. MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR STATES ARMY. 91 Major-General ARTHUR MacARTHUR. United States Ay-my, Of all human events, wars bring the greatestsurprises. This is as true of the building up or tear-ing down of mens reputations as of results andevents. In the United States, no man entering t
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ seat, named RoseHill, after the spacious and elegant home of hisgreat-great-great-grandfather (which was beautifullysituated in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, Scot-land), near Tivoli post office and station, on theHudson. THE 1. MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR STATES ARMY. 91 Major-General ARTHUR MacARTHUR. United States Ay-my, Of all human events, wars bring the greatestsurprises. This is as true of the building up or tear-ing down of mens reputations as of results andevents. In the United States, no man entering themilitary service can possibl}^ prognosticate where hewill come out at the conclusion of any war, if he sur-vives. But there are men marked by nature, ofwhom, those who have made their characters a study,can with confidence predict with ease great such men. General Arthur Maci\rthur stands eas-ily among the first. It has been the authors goodfortune not only to have slightly known him, but toknow more of his famil}^ and his character than us-ual, since both are originally from the same State—Wisconsin. During the great Civil War, the author—then alad of eight years—remembers well the distinctevents of that war, as heralded by telegraph andnewspapers. Filled with a vast and d
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