Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library T WAS not a desire to add another to the list of books "published exclusively for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy" which led I US to attempt this modest volume. It was rather a desire to leave behind us something which would serve as a pleasant reminder of our Cadet days. No records other than the battle-scarred volumes we have mastered and which we shall ever retain as trophies of our earliest campaigns will be needed to recall the working- side of life at the Academy, hut we deem it fitting to include in a work of this kind something which will serve as a record of the inner side of Cadet life as we have known it. After four years of the severest discipline and the hardest labors we are about to graduate and enter the world of life and action. What it holds for us it is. of course, impossible to say. but certain it is that the absorbing cares and varied interests which will soon fill our lives will tend to drive from our minds the pleasant memories of youthful days. May this little volume ever serve to lead us back to and recall all that has been bright and pleasing in the days when, impatient with the restraints of our daily life, we dreamed of glory and achievement and longed for the larger life beyond. ( me aim we have had constantly before us has been to foster the kindly feel­ ing which exists between the classes now at the Academy and to do something to perpetuate it. In this we hope we have succeeded. In thus recording a few of the happenings that have brightened our days and lightened the labors which other­ wise would have borne heavily upon us it is possible that we have included things which, in strict justice, might better have been omitted, but it is to be remembered that we have written whatever appears on these pages in just the same spirit in which it was told when we were all cadets together. If we have done aught to increase the love we all have for our Alma Mater and to preserve in pleasing form the memories that cluster round it. our time has been well spent and our labors have not been in vain. Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library COLORS: Black and Gray and Gold ^nitefc States /IMUtar? Bcafcem^ ESTABLISHED 1802 CORPS YELL: H'ray ! H'ray ! H'ray ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! West Point! Property of the US. 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Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library CfOTOTI "We know what Heaven or Hell may bring, But no man knoweth the mind of the King." —The Ballad of the King's Jest. COLONEL A. L. MILLS, U. S. A. Superintendent. FIRST LIEUT. WILLIAM C. RIVERS, First Cavalry. Adjutant of the Military Academy and of the Post; Recruiting Officer; Com­ manding the Band and Detachment of Field Music. FIRST LIEUT. MALVERN-HILL BARNUM, Tenth Cavalry. Quartermaster of the Military Academy and of the Post; Disbursing Officer; Commissary and Treasurer: in charge of the Post Exchange. MAJOR CHARLES B. HALL, Second Infantry. Treasurer of the Military Academy, and Quartermaster and Commissary of Cadets. MAJOR JOHN M. BANISTER, Surgeon, U. S. A.. Post Surgeon. LIEUT. FRANKLIN M. KEMP, Assistant Surgeon, C. S. A., Assistant Surgeon. Property of the US. Military Academy Library "With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow. And with mine own hands wrought to make it grow." COL. ALBERT L. MILLS, hirst Cavalry. Cadet M. A. 1874-79: 2d Lieut.. 1st Caw, 1879-91; trans, to 1st Cav. 1891; Capt. A. A. G.. U. S. V.. 1898: Maj. A. A. G.. U. S. V.. 1899: Lt. Col. 44th U. S. Inf.. 1899; Capt. 1st Cav.. 1899; Superintendent U. S. M. A. 1898. PROF. PETER S. MICH IE. Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy; Cadet 1859-63; 1st Lieut. Engineers. 1863-65: Captain. 1865-71; Professor. 1871; Brevet Lt. Col., April 9, 1865; Author of Elements of Analytical Mechanics, Elements of Wave Motion. Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library PROF. CM AS. W. EARNED, Professor of Drawing: Cadet 1866-0: 2d Lieu*. 3d Cavalry. June to October. 1870: transferred to ;th Cavalry: 2d Lieut. 7th Cavalry. 1870-76; 1st Lieut. 1876 —; Professor. 18 6— PROF. SAMUEL E. TILLMAN. Professor of Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology: Cadet. 1855-69: 2d Lieut. 4th Cavalry. 1869-72: transferred to Engineers, i8;2: 1st Lieut., 18 _': Professor. [880—: Author of Elements of Heat, Chemistry. PROF. EDWARD E. WOOD. Professor of Modern Languages: Cadet, 1866-70: 2d Lieut. 8th Cavalry. lS, o- ;3; 1st Lieut. [873-86; Capt;.in, [886 —: Professor. [892 —. PROF. GEORGE B. DAVIS, Professor of Law and History. Cadet. 186/-71; 2d Lieut. 5th Cavalry. 18/1-7/; i>t Lieut. [8/7-88: Captain. 1888-89: Major Judge Advocate. 1889-93; Lieut. Colonel, Department Judge Advocate General, 1895 —: Professor, 1^95 —I Author of Elements of Law and Treatise on Military Law. PROF. GUSTAV J. FIEBEGER, Professor of Civil and Military Engineering; Cadet. 1875-79: Additional 2(1 Lieut. Engineers, 18,9: M\ Lieut.. [8/9-82; 1st Lieut., [882-91; Captain, i8<)i —; Professor, [896 —: Author of Field Fortifications. PROF. WRIGHT P. EDGERTON, Professor of Mathematics: Cadet. 18/0-74; -d Lieut. 2d Artillery. 18/4-81: 1st Lieut., 1881 —; Associate Professor. 1893-98: Professor. 1898 —. LT. COL. OTTO L. HEIN, First Cavalry. Commandant of Cade's and Instructor of Tactics; Cadet. [866-/0; 2d Lieut, is' Cavalry, [^70-77; 1st Lieut.. [877-89; Captain. [889 —: Commandant of Cadets with rank of Lieut. Colonel. 1897 —. CART. LAWRENCE E. BRUFF, Ordnance Department. Instructor in Ordnance and Gunnery; Cadet. [872-76; 2d Lieut. 3d Artillery, [8/6-79; 1st Lieut. Ordnance, 1879-90: Captain, 1890 —; Author of ( Ord­ nance and Gunnery. MAI. GEO. W. GOETHALS, Corp. of Engineers, Instructor. Practical Military Engineering; Military Signalling and Telegraphy; Cadet. i8;6-8o; 2d Lieut. Engineers, [880-82; 1st Lieut.. [882-1891; Cap­ tain, 1891-1900; Major, 1900. Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library cacuittid r Associate Professor. I'UOK. CHARLES P, ECHOLS, Associate Professor of Mathematics; Cadet. I8S/-IJI ; Additional 2d Lieut. Engineers. 1891-94: 2d Lieut.. [894-96; 1st Lieut.. 1896 —; Associate Professor, 1808 —. Assistant Professors. CAPT. CHARLES H. HUNTER, Third Artillery. Assistant Professor of Spanish; Cadet, i8"6-8o: 2d Lieut 19th Infantry. 1880- 81; transferred to 1st Artillery. 1881; 1st Lieut.. 18S1-89: Captain. 3d Ar­ tillery. 1899 —. CAPT. HENRY C. DAVIS, Seventh Artillery. Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy; Cadet. 1879- 8.5: 2d Lieut. 3d Artillery. [883-91; 1st Lieut.. 1891-98: transferred to /th Artillery, 1898; Captain. 1899 —. LlEUT. RICHMOND P. DAVIS, Second Artillery. Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology: Cadet. 1883-87; 2d Lieut.. 1887-93: 1st Lieut., 1893 —. LIEUT. WIRT ROBINSON, Fourth Artillery, Assistant Professor of French; Cadet. 1883-87; j(\ Lieut. 4th Artillery. 18S7- 93; 1st Lieut., 1893 —. LIEUT. JAY J. MORROW. Corps of Engineers. Assistant Professor of Civil and Military Engineering: Cadet, 1887-91; Addi­ tional 2d Lieut. Engineers, 1891-95: 2d Lieut.. 1895-96: 1st Lieut.. 1896 —. LIEUT. FRANK (i. MAULDIN, Seventh Artillery. Assistant Professor of Law and History: Cadet. 1886-90; Additional 2d Lieut. 3d Artillery. 1890-91: 2d Lieut. 2d Artillery. 1891 —; transferred 1891 to tM\ Artillery: 1st Lieut. ;th Artillery, 1898 —. LIEUT. JENS BLJGGE, Third Infantry. Assistant Professor of Drawing: Cadet. 1891-95: 2<\ Lieut 3d Infantry. [895 98: 1st Lieut.. 1898. LIEUT. GEORGE BLAKELY, Second Artillery. Assistant Professor of Mathematics: Cadet. 1888-Q2: 2d Lieut. 2d Artillery, 1892-99: 1st Lieut . [89Q Property of the U.S. Military Academy Library Instructors. " They taught us, and groomed us and crammed." CAPT. GEORGE H. SANDS. Sixth Cavalry, Senior Instructor of Cavalry Tactics; Cadet. i8;o-8o: 2d Lieut. 6th Cavalry, 1880-87; lst Lieut.. 1887-97: Captain. 1897 —. CAPT. GRANGER ADAMS. Seventh Artillery. Senior Instructor of Artillery Tactics: Cadet. 1872-76; 2d Lieut.. 5th Artillery, 1876-84; 1st Lieut.. [884-98; Captain 7th Artillery. 1898 —. LIEUT. GEO. F. LANDERS, Fourth Artillery. Instructor of Chemistry. Mineralogy and Geology: Cadet. 1883-1887; 2d Lieut.. 4th Artillery. 1887-93: 1st Lieut. 4th Artillery, 1893—. LIEUT. EDMUND M. BLAKE, Fourth Artillery. Assistant Instructor of Tactics: Cadet. 1885-1889; 2d Lieut. 5th Artillery. 1889-95: 1st Lieut. 4th Artillery. 1895 —. LlEUT. EDWARD ANDERSON, Seventh Cavalry. Assistant Instructor of Tactics: Cadet. 1884-1888: 2d Lieut. 15th Infantry. 1888- 89; transferred to 1st Cavalry. 1889; 1st Lieut. 7th Cavalry, 1896— Honor Graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry School.