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 THE UNPOPULAR HISTORY

is not a complete history. If it were more complete it would be less popular. I know that, for I published it once in full, for free distribution, and I could not get anybody to read a word.

This is not nearly all I want to say. I have just gone over the rough ground, and occasionally hit the high places, giving you as much as one healthy young fellow can believe—all at once. The fact is, I did not believe it myself, and never paid a bit of attention to General Upton when he first wrote his "Military Policy of the United States." I never caught the idea that we had a Military Policy, or needed one.

General Emory Upton was a West Pointer, and while no more than a boy, became one of the most distinguished officers in our Civil War. Afterwards, on the recommendation of General Sherman, I sent him to study the [161]