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in 1818, he was graduated from West 

 Point in 1838- In the fall of i860 he was 

 appointed superintendent of the United 

 States Military Academy at West Point, 

 a position he resigned to enter the Con- 

 federate Army. He began the Civil War 

 by his bombardment of Fort Sumter. 

 He was second in rank at the first battle 

 of Bull Run, and at Shiloh succeeded Al- 

 ' bert Sidney Johnston when the latter fell. 

 He. was with Lee at Petersburg, and later 

 went West, surrendering with Joseph E. 

 Johnston. After the war he was offered 

 first the command of the Roumanian 

 armies and later of the Egyptian forces 

 under the Khedive of Egypt, but declined 

 both offers. He died in 1893. 



CAMP LOGAN 



Five miles west of Houston, Tex., is 

 the Illinois Guardsmen's Camp Logan. 



This location has the highest average 

 annual temperature of any National 

 Guard encampment, 69 °, the mercury's 

 highest record being 102 and the lowest 

 1 5° above zero. The sun shines here 

 about 256 days a year, of which 120 days 

 are partly cloudy. 



Houston is a city of 94,000 inhabitants. 

 It is a railroad center of importance and 

 has direct water communication with the 

 Gulf at Galveston, about 50 miles to the 

 southeast, by way of the Houston Ship 

 Channel. The city is a prosperous dis- 

 tributing market for cotton and lumber, 

 and exports cotton-seed oil, rice, and 

 sugar in large quantities. 



The city is named for Sam Houston, 

 soldier and leader in the early history of 

 Texas, second president of that Republic, 

 and later governor and senator from the 

 State. It was founded in the year of 

 Texas' independence, 1836, and was the 

 capital of the Republic in 1837-39 an d 

 1842 



Camp Logan commemorates an Illinois 

 military leader. John Alexander Logan 

 was a member of Congress at the out- 

 break of the Civil War and resigned his 

 seat to enter the army as colonel of 

 the 31st Illinois Volunteers. He distin- 

 guished himself in the Vicksburg cam- 

 paign as a division commander, and was 

 the military governor of the city after its 

 capture. After the war he was again 



elected to Congress, serving one term in 

 the House and two in the Senate. He 

 was the Republican vice-presidential can- 

 didate on the ticket with James G. Blaine, 

 and was reelected to the Senate by Illi- 

 nois after the Democratic presidential 

 victory. 



CAMP MAC ARTHUR 



Camp MacArthur, northeast of the city 

 limits of Waco, Tex., is the training 

 ground for the guardsmen of Michigan 

 and Wisconsin. Waco is a city of about 

 33,000 inhabitants and is situated on both 

 sides of the Brazos River. Artesian wells 

 supply waters of widely known medicinal 

 properties. 



Texas climate offers a rather wide 

 range of temperature, the highest record 

 at Waco being 109 and the lowest 5 . 

 The annual average is 6j° . 



Camp MacArthur bears the name of 

 a distinguished general, Arthur Mac- 

 Arthur, a native of Massachusetts. His 

 military service began in 1862, and during 

 the Civil War he attained the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, and was 

 awarded a Congressional medal of honor 

 for gallantry in the battle of Missionary 

 Ridge. Following the close of the war 

 he entered the Regular Army and saw 

 service in Cuba and in the Philippines, 

 holding the position of governor of the 

 Islands and commander of the Division 

 of the Philippines. Upon his return to 

 the United States he became assistant 

 Chief of Staff, and was in command at 

 different times of the departments of 

 Colorado, of the Lakes, of the East, and 

 of the Division of the Pacific. 



CAMP BOWIE 



The National Guard forces of Texas 

 and Oklahoma were mobilized and are 

 being trained at Camp Bowie, near Fort 

 Worth, Tex., in the northeastern section 

 of the State. It is in the center of a vast 

 stock-raising and agricultural region and 

 is one of the leading meat-packing towns 

 of America. Having 11 trunk-line rail- 

 roads, with 16 outlets, Fort Worth is the 

 great distributing point of the Southwest. 

 The city was merely a frontier post in 

 1849, an d in 1873 had only 1,100 popula- 

 tion. Today it is a busy metropolis, with 

 more than 75,000 inhabitants. 



