Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R.

Lieutenant Wheeler was one of the contingent selected from the first Plattsburg camp to be sent abroad for three months’ study, close up, of modern warfare. Prior to his Plattsburg experience he had spent four months on the Texas border in Battery C of the First Illinois Field Artillery. Before that, while a student at Yale (class of 1911), he had joined a troop of cavalry then in. training in New...