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served as chief of staff from 1910 to 1914. He was commander of 

 the Department of the East with headquarters at Governors Island, 

 1914 to 1917. During the War with Germany he trained the Eighty- 

 ninth Division of the National Army. He was appointed Governor 

 General of the Philippine Islands in 1921 and held this position 

 until his death, in Boston, Mass., in 1927. The saber described above 

 was presented to the National Museum in 1929 by Mrs. Wood with 

 numerous other relics of General Wood's military career. 



SABER OWNED BY LIEUT. GEN. SAMUEL B. M. YOUNG 



The National Museum collection includes two swords of this period 

 owned by Lieut. Gen. Samuel B. M. Young, United States Army. 

 One ^^ is a handsome weapon of a nonregulation type. The blade 

 is short and slightly curved with a medium groove on each side and 

 damascening in vertical lines. Tlie obverse is decorated with the 

 letters " U. S.," flanked by a floral design in gilt relief work. The 

 reverse is similarly decorated with the United States coat of arms. 

 The grip is made of plain ivory with four large finger grooves on 

 the underside. The top is covered with a convex silver-plated strip 

 inscribed "Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young," which terminates in an 

 eagle-head pommel. The guard is composed of a heavy silver-plated 

 strip with three branches on the obverse side and one on the reverse. 

 The front of the guard and of the branches is decorated with laurel 

 sprays. The scabbard is made of steel with two rings. The National 

 Museum collection also includes a light Cavalry saber '^^ of the regula- 

 tion type, which was made at the national armory at Springfield, 

 Mass., and was owned by Lieutenant General Young. 



The owner of these swords enlisted in the Twelfth Pennsylvania 

 Infantry on the outbreak of the Civil War. He was twice wounded 

 during that conflict, and at its close had risen through the grades 

 of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel to that of colonel. In 1865, 

 he received the brevet rank of brigadier general of Volunteers. After 

 the termination of the Civil War he entered the United States Army 

 as a second lieutenant and participated in the strenuous campaigns 

 against the western Indians. He was made brigadier general of 

 Volunteers on the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 and 

 commanded the forces that won the victory of Las Guasimas, June 

 24, 1898. In the following year he served in the Philippines and par- 

 ticipated prominently in the pacification of northern Luzon. In 

 1902 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and became 

 chief of staif of the United States Army. His swords were presented 

 to the National Museum in 1928 by his estate. 



^^ Length, 95 cm. Blade, 81.2 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide. Marked "Henry V. Allien & 

 Co., New York." PI. 27, fig. 4. 



^ Length, 100 cm. Blade, 85.4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide. PI. 27, flg. 3. 



