The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall
Charles Pelot Summerall and Timothy K. Nenninger
Abstract
After graduating from West Point in 1892, Charles Pelot Summerall (1867–1955) launched a distinguished military career, fighting Filipino insurgents in 1899 and Boxers in China in 1900. His remarkable service included brigade, division, and corps commands in World War I; duty as chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1930; and presidency of the Citadel for twenty years, where he was instrumental in establishing the school's national reputation. Previously available only in the Citadel's archives, this memoir offers an eyewitness account of a formative period in U.S. Army history. Edited ... More
After graduating from West Point in 1892, Charles Pelot Summerall (1867–1955) launched a distinguished military career, fighting Filipino insurgents in 1899 and Boxers in China in 1900. His remarkable service included brigade, division, and corps commands in World War I; duty as chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1930; and presidency of the Citadel for twenty years, where he was instrumental in establishing the school's national reputation. Previously available only in the Citadel's archives, this memoir offers an eyewitness account of a formative period in U.S. Army history. Edited and annotated, the memoir documents critical moments in American military history and details Summerall's personal life, from his impoverished childhood in Florida to his retirement from the Citadel in 1953. From the perspective of both a soldier and a general, Summerall describes how the very nature of war changed irrevocably during his lifetime.
Keywords:
Charles Pelot Summerall,
military career,
Boxers,
China,
World War I,
Citadel,
U.S. Army,
American military history
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780813126180 |
Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2011 |
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813126180.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Charles Pelot Summerall, author
Timothy K. Nenninger, editor
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