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BLUE SHIRT AND KHAKI

[Illustration: Blue Shirt and Khaki at Malta.]




  BLUE SHIRT
  AND KHAKI

  _A COMPARISON_


  _By_ JAMES F. J. ARCHIBALD


  _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
  FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
  TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR_


  SILVER, BURDETT AND
  COMPANY, _NEW YORK_,
  _BOSTON_, _CHICAGO_. 1901




  Copyright, 1901, by
  Silver, Burdett & Company


  Press of I. J. Little & Co.
  Astor Place, New York




  To the Memory of My Father,
  F. A. Archibald, D.D., LL.D.




Contents


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
     I. The New Soldier and His Equipment                             17

    II. British and American Recruits                                 38

   III. The Common Soldier in the Field                               60

    IV. The Officers                                                  90

     V. American and British Tactics                                 121

    VI. Feeding the Two Armies                                       147

   VII. The Railroad in Modern War                                   171

  VIII. Transportation of Troops by Sea                              194

    IX. The Last Days of the Boer Capital                            217

     X. The British in Pretoria                                      247




List of Illustrations


                                                                    PAGE
  A Guard at Pretoria                                                 17

  Captain Arthur Lee, R.A., _attaché_ with General Shafter in
    Cuba                                                              19

  Captain Slocum, U.S.A., _attaché_ with Lord Roberts in South
    Africa                                                            19

  British soldiers visiting the U.S. troop-ship _Sumner_, _en
  route_ to the Philippines                                           23

  British officers at Malta, watching the setting-up exercises
    of American soldiers                                              27

  A company of the Eighth U. S. Infantry in the field,
  Lieutenant M. B. Stuart                                             33

  A review of the Life Guards in London                               33

  Horse Guard on duty at headquarters, London                         38

  Possible candidates                                                 41

  Persuasion by sergeant-major                                        41

  British recruits at fencing practice                                45

  British recruits at bayonet practice                                45

  A musician of the Gordon Highlanders, age, seventeen                51

  A Boer fighting “man,” age, twelve. Twice distinguished for
    bravery in action. He fought at Spion Kop, Colenso, Dundee,
    and Ladysmith                                                     51

  Colonel Napier’s frame for recruit-drill at Aldershot               55

  One of the exercises in British recruit-drill                       55

  Setting-up exercises of American soldiers during their visit
    in Malta                                                          58

  Recruit drill in the British army                                   58

  American cow-boy with Canadians in South Africa                     60

  Dangebhoy hospital cart used in South Africa                        63

  The Twelfth Lancers in South Africa                                 67

  General French examining the enemy’s position during the
    battle of Diamond Hill                                            67

  Heliographing from Diamond Hill to Lord Roberts in Pretoria         71

  Burial at Arlington of 426 American soldiers who fell in Cuba       77

  Gathering the dead after the battle of Diamond Hill                 79

  American volunteer officer                                          90

  A cadet drill at the West Point Military Academy                    93

  Generals Chaffee, Brooke, and Lee reviewing the army in Cuba        93

  Major Eastwood, Twelfth Lancers                                     94

  Colonel Beech, Egyptian Cavalry                                     94

  Sir John Milbanke, V.C.                                             94

  Colonel Chamberlain, Military Secretary                             94

  A Canadian officer                                                  94

  British Colonel of Volunteers                                       96

  Colonel Peabody, U. S. Volunteers                                   96

  Staats Model Schoolhouse, Pretoria, where the British officers
    were first confined as prisoners of war                          101

  Barbed-wire prison, Pretoria, where the British officers were
    confined after their removal from the city                       101

  Released British officers in Pretoria after the entry of Lord
    Roberts                                                          105

  Native East Indian servants of British officers in South
   Africa                                                            105

  Lieutenant-General N. A. Miles, U. S. A.                           109

  General French and staff, South Africa                             113

  American officers of the Eighth Infantry _en route_ to the
    Philippines                                                      113

  General Ian Hamilton in South Africa                               115

  Brigadier-General Fitzhugh Lee, United States Army                 118

  Major-General J. R. Brooke, United States Army                     118

  American officer at S