Identifier: famousgeneralsof01john (find matches)
Title: Famous generals of the great war who led the United States and her allies to a glorious victory
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd, 1877- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Generals
Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on-gress. Of course this compliment was paid him be-cause of his excellent conduct of the Moro campaign. But other compliments were handed him, for, whenwar broke out between Russia and Japan, he was se-lected as the military observer for the United States,and still later, when chaos reigned in Mexico, Pershingwas asked to control the vast United States army col-lected upon the border, and later was ordered to head apunitive expedition which penetrated Mexican territory.The expedition was successful in that it had the desiredeffect: it put a stop to disorder in Northern Mexico, andalthough living in an unfertile and arid land, the Gen-eral succeeded in bringing out his army with but fewdeaths from disease and the missiles of snipers. Although seldom heard of before, the name of Per-shing was now upon every tongue, and he was one ofthe best known soldiers in the United States. The news-papers rang with the name of the leader of the MexicanExpedition. The moving pictures showed numerous
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JOHN J. PERSHING JOHN J. PERSHING 147 scenes in Mexico and on the border, in which the erect,gray-haired general was to the front, and the paragraphwriters spoke now of Pershing and not of Funston, thecapturer of Aguinaldo, who had recently died of heartfailure. The Mexican problem was now practically settled, thepunitive expedition was withdrawn, and the army onceagain marked time on the border, while the fearfulEuropean war turned the once peaceful soil of Franceinto a veritable quagmire of blood. By diplomacy andevasion, President Wilson endeavored to keep the UnitedStates out of war, but it was of no avail. The godswilled it that the German people would go stark, staringmad; would disregard all laws of civilized warfare, andwould drag the United States into the conflict by sheerbarbarity and lack of decency for civilized conduct. When Congress had admitted that a state of war ex-isted with the German Government, troops were imme-diately dispatched to Paris, and from thence to thef

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