The Defence of Duffer's Drift

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President. Major-General J.C. Bates, U.S. Army.
Vice-President. Lieutenant-Colonel Jas. S. Pettit, U.S. Infantry. Assistant Adjutant-General.
Secretary and Treasurer. Captain Benjamin Alvord, General Staff.
Executive Council. Lieutenant-Colonel James S. Pettit, U.S. Infantry, A.A.G. Major Wm. P. Evans, U.S. Infantry, A.A.G. Major John S. Mallory, 12th Infantry, G.S. Captain Benjamin Alvord, 25th Infantry, G.S. Captain H.C. Hale, 15th Infantry, G.S. Captain C.H. Muir, 2d Infantry, G.S. Captain Frank McIntyre, 19th Infantry, G.S. Captain D.E. Nolan, 30th Infantry, G.S.


By Permission.
Upon an evening after a long and tiring trek, I arrived at Dreamdorp. The local atmosphere, combined with a heavy meal, are responsible for the following nightmare, consisting of a series of dreams. To make the sequence of the whole intelligible, it is necessary to explain that, though the scene of each vision was the same, yet by some curious mental process I had no recollection of the place whatsoever. In each dream the locality was totally new to me, and I had an entirely fresh detachment. Thus I had not the great advantage of working over familiar ground. One thing, and one only, was carried on from dream to dream, and that was the vivid recollection of the general lessons previously learnt. These finally produced success.