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Sixteenth Corps of General Sherman's 

 army in the campaign which resulted in 

 the fall of Atlanta. Later he was given 

 command of the Department of the Mis- 

 souri. He became chief engineer of the 

 Union Pacific in 1867, and of the Texas 

 and Pacific in 1871. He served a term 

 in Congress, and in 1898 was appointed 

 by President McKinley as chairman of 

 a commission to investigate the charges 

 of departmental mismanagement in the 

 Spanish-American War. 



CAMP FUNSTON 



It devolves on Camp Funston, located 

 at Fort Riley, Kansas, which stands at 

 the confluence of the Republican and the 

 Kansas rivers, to accommodate the Na- 

 tional Army forces from seven States — 

 Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan- 

 sas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 

 The men who will train at this camp may 

 well feel that they are closer to the heart 

 of the United States than any of the 

 other military forces of the nation, for at 

 Fort Riley stands the Ogden Monument, 

 proclaiming the exact geographic center 

 of the United States. 



The military reservation on which Fort 

 Riley stands, and on which Camp Fun- 

 ston was built, embraces nearly 20,000 

 acres. A military road connects Fort 

 Riley with Fort Leavenworth, on the 

 Missouri River, about 25 miles above 

 Kansas City. This road was completed 

 in 1854. Later it was extended westward 

 to Bridgers Pass, between Nebraska and 

 Utah. Fort Riley is the seat of the 

 United States Cavalry and Field Artil- 

 lery schools, which accounts for the big 

 area embraced in the reservation. 



Camp Funston can accommodate 41,- 

 000 people — a city as populous as the 

 State capital. To the south of the camp 

 runs the Kansas River and to the north 

 are grass-covered hills. It would be diffi- 

 cult to imagine a more striking location 

 for a camp. The fertile valley of Kan- 

 sas' middle river sweeps eastward, and 

 one srets the feeling: of the boundless 

 reaches of America as he surveys the 

 scene from the green hills to the north. 

 The county adjoining Riley on the east 

 is Pottawattomie, home of John Brown. 

 Sixty miles to the southeast is Emporia. 



where "What's the Matter with Kansas" 

 had its birth. 



Camp Funston is named for General 

 Frederick Funston, who died only a few 

 months ago at San Antonio, Texas. Born 

 at New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, in 

 1865, the son of an artillery officer in the 

 Civil War, his boyhood was spent on a 

 Kansas farm. He was educated at the 

 State university, became a reporter and 

 then a special agent of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, where his 

 work took him across Death Valley, into 

 the heart of Alaska, down the Yukon 

 alone in a canoe and up the 141st me- 

 ridian to the Arctic Ocean. Later he 

 traveled in Mexico, then went to Cuba, 

 where he joined the cause of Cuba as a 

 captain of artillery. While campaigning 

 with Gomez and Garcia he was wounded, 

 and, seeking to return to the United 

 States, was captured by the Spaniards, 

 who condemned him to be shot. Upon be- 

 ing released he returned to the United 

 States. At the outbreak of the Spanish- 

 American War he raised the 20th Kansas 

 Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was 

 sent to the Philippines, where, on a small 

 raft, he crossed a river under heavy fire 

 and established a rope ferry that enabled 

 the Federal forces to win an important 

 victory at Calumpit. For this act of 

 bravery he was awarded the Congres- 

 sional Medal of Honor, and later organ- 

 ized the expedition that captured Agui- 

 naldo. His more recent services, es- 

 pecially as commander of the American 

 forces on the Rio Grande and as the 

 head of the expedition to Vera Cruz, are 

 well known. 



CAMP TRAVIS 



San Antonio has the unusual honor 

 of having four military camps — Camp 

 Travis, housing the National Army con- 

 tingent from Oklahoma and Texas ; Camp 

 Wilson, housing contingents of Regular 

 Army forces on the Mexican border; 

 Fort' Sam Houston, a Regular Army 

 post : and Camp Kelly, an aviation camp. 



The city's popularity with the army is 

 deserved, as it has seasonable weather for 

 military training every month in the year. 

 Its average temperature is 68° and its 

 lowest is 4 above zero. Furthermore, it 



