The Unpopular History
armies of Europe and Asia. What he wrote in the year 1880 embodied the practical lessons of the Civil War, and the results of military science throughout the world. It never touched me. I did not even print his book. His manuscript was filed and forgotten amongst the millions of documents in the archives of the War Department. The General printed some of it himself, through a private publisher, but it wouldn't sell.
Nearly 25 years later, long after his death, other officers investigated the subject and made me realize how true were his conclusions. Thereupon I published "Upton's Military Policy of the United States."
Every word that I have spoken here you will find in there; it has my official endorsement, printed on my presses, franked through my mails, and sent free to my people.
It's true as gospel, but folks say it doesn't taste good.
That's why I call these few brief extracts from Upton "The Unpopular History of the United States," by Uncle Sam Himself.
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