US Army Command and General Staff College - Summary Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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aft I' -L, To All Who Shall See These Presents, Greetings When we open This book iT will be Time To close The Field Manuals and The Special Texfs. We have had The course. ' There will be some unavoidable Tumulf and shoufing aT The TransporTaTion Office as The Capfains and The Kings prepare To deparf, buT There should also be a momenf or Two for sober rehecfion. How are we going To grade This year's exercise? The names of The fTrsT Ten graduafes will appear in leTTers of fiame upon suifable memoranda and Trade publicafionsg perhaps even in The Daily Bullefin. The names of The Ten will remain forever unalferable. No amounT of pieTy, wiT, or skulduggery can change Them. However, as The years pass and The Class of i957 is scaffered ever wider, There will grow up a sizeable liTTle band of men who graduafed elevenfh in The class. Only one of These will be able wiTh any assurance To dispuTe The claims of his compeTiTors. IT is To be hoped ThaT he does noT Try very hard. On The oTher hand, no one will publish The name of ThaT Unknown Soldier who bears The resf of The class upon his bowed shoulders as he passes from Grubers' flexible walls. Proof of his place aT The lefT of The line is buried deep in his brief case, sandwiched beTween The dispairing noTes from his faculTy advisor. Perhaps, in years To come, There may even be a few who will dispuTe The righT To This secref place. So, we can see ThaT buT for The Ten, our class sfanding is noT a major considera- Tion in our evaluaTion of The exercise. WhaT Then are we cerfain ThaT we have Taken wiTh us from This College? Since iT is noT our purpose here To presenf The Approved SoluTion, buT only To expose The besT Thinking available, we can poinT out one giff of The College To each of us which will grow ever more prized as The years go by. This is The bond of fellowship and undersfanding gained by us all as we foughT The good fTghT in Gruber Hall. ln fuTure years and on baTTlefTeIds yeT unnamed, The Division Commander on our lefT may well be more Than iusf one of The Adiacenf Unifs. He may be ThaT man who saT on our le-ff in Gruber Hall, who smoked our cigareTTes, and whispered The answer To The hrsT quesTion on Monday morning. When Things look black, The Aggressor Threaf- ens, and The 2OlsT Armored Cavalry won'T come and help us, we can Turn To him. In some forTy countries Throughouf The world we shall be able To find This friend. IT is our sincere hope ThaT This book will help us To keep fresh The memory of Those friends whom we have meT and learned To know here aT The Command and General STafT College. 3

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The Summary Staff Editor-in-Chiet Managing Editor Business Manager Editorial Assistant Art Editor Photographic Editor Lt. Col. K. R. Colwill Capt. A. H. Gille Maj. W. E. Burr Mai. N. A. Parson Capt. F. E. Atchison Lt. Col. Samuel R. Reid Mai. Oliver B. Patton Lt. Col. John D. Webber Mai. Robert E. Morrison Mai. William C. Sibert Mai. Charles E. Rose ditorial Staff Mai. W. P. DeBrocke Mai. C. E. Glenn Mai. E. M. Fry Capt. E. G. Heilbronner Mai. W. R. Ptaft Mai. M. E. Richmond Capt. G. M. Wallace Art Staff Mai. H. T. Wickert Mrs. Betty Fowler Mai. T. R. Mackechnie Mrs. Mary Miller Mai. R. L. Cody Mrs. Ann Whitley Capt. R. L. Hillman Photography Staff Mai. T. A. Lowe Mai. R. H. McCleary Maj. B. D. More Capt. H. J. Shaw Maj. J. W. Ervin Mai. O. C. Vigen Mai. J. O. Shoemaker Business Staff Mai. K. R. Bull Lt. Col. E. V. Hendren Mai. P. A. Revolinsky Mai. E. F. Hart Lt. Col. V. H. Ellis Capt. T. E. Blockson Maj. K. R. Bull Maj. C. L. Cochran Mai. R. P. Larned Mai. R. H. Hansen Maj. D. A. Seibert Mai. D. A. Seibert Mai. R. H. Miller Capt. J. W. Nocita Mai. J. A. Alevaras Mai. R. J. Crawtord Capt. L. l. Stein Class Representatives Capt. H. C. Kirk Lt. Col. H. L. Bush Lt. Col. Walker Mai. L. J. Schelter Lt. Col. R. M. Leonard Mai. R. D. McFarland Lt. Col P. G. Walker Mai. C. R. McFadden Lt. Col. E. V. Hendren Lt. Col. H. L. Bush Capt. R. L. West Staff Coordinator Miss Grace O'Leary Without the turther assistance of all the Post Facilities, Mr. Bud Timberlake, and count- less Silent Workers, this book would not have been produced. 2

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.1 Y.-Y A Brief History of Fort Leavenworth T in iii l it E is ,E 5 :T 'iff Lglmg i t itil . fit'-r ' Q' ?Q::5:,:7 i,.2'3 E fig ,, ., Xi uqlh .f 4211, . .AI T X f +7 fl 2 In l827, Colonel Henry Leavenworth led four com- panies of the 3rd U. S. Infantry up the Missouri River in search of a site for a new army post. His orders directed him to locate the post near the mouth of the Little Platte River, and on May 8, l827, Colonel Leavenworth reached the mouth of this stream. Then continuing some eight miles further up the Missouri, he halted. With the sure eye of the frontier soldier he sought the highground of the west bank of the river, and on this spot began con- struction of the Post which was to bear his name. The post was established to provide protection for the new trade routes from the U.S. into Mexico, and Fort Leavenworth soon became a vital outpost on the Santa Fe Trail, principal trade route to the south and west. 4 Permanent settlement of the area around Forf Leavenworth was slow in the years following its establishment, but, in l854, with the passage by Congress of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, slave owners in Missouri decided to establish a community for themselves in Kansas. They selected a site some three miles south of Fort Leavenworth, and on June l2, l854, these men met in Weston, Missouri, to draw up the articles of incorporation for their new home. Leavenworth City, hrst town to be incorporated in Kansas was born. Seventeen years later, the citi- sens of this town decided to drop the City from the name of their community, and to call it simply Leavenworth. Meanwhile, Fort Leavenworth became an import- ant army post in the years before the Civil War. In the l84O's it served as a staging area for army expeditions into Mexico. Through it passed countless detachments of blue-clad cavalry troopers on their way to nameless engagements with the Indians, then fighting bitterly to stem the tide of invasion of their territory. During the Civil War, Camp Lincoln was established at Fort Leavenworth as a training center for Union troops. From it the garrison marched to the battle of Westport which was fought on October Qi-23, l864, on ground now occupied by Kansas City, Missouri. Here the combined forces of Union Generals Pleasanton and Curtis defeated the Con- federate troops of General Sterling Price, and the last Southern invasion of the far west was thrown back. After the Civil War, Fort Leavenworth continued in its role of staging area for the lndian-fighting army. The site of Sherman Army Airfield was used as a detention camp for Chief Joseph and four hun- dred of his Nez Perces after their defeat by General Miles on the Yellowstone River. In the Post Chapel today can be found plaques to the memory of the