surgeon h. f. mcsherry us navy civil war 1864

In 1860, William became publisher of the New York Sun. William assisted his father who edited and published the New York Chronicle. The Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces was founded by the brothers Francis Pharcellus Church and William Conant Church. The Army and Navy Journal, along with its social and other items about service personnel, carried articles, correspondence, and news of interest to military people that helped bind its readers together in a common professional fraternity.

Stewart, it was not just a professional journal like the others mentioned. According to military historian Richard W. Still earlier, in 1863, the Army and Navy Journal, as it came to be called, began a long run. In 1879, United Service began publication as a journal of naval and military affairs. In 1892 the Artillery School at Fort Monroe founded The Journal of the United States Artillery and in 1893 a group of officers at Fort Leavenworth founded the Infantry Society, which became the United States Infantry Association the following year and later published the Infantry Journal. Notable among them were the United States Naval Institute, founded in 1873, whose publication 'Proceedings' would become well known the United States Cavalry Association, which published the Cavalry Journal and the Association of Military Surgeons, which published The Military Surgeon.

This collection includes issues number 1 through 22, 24 through 33, and 37 through 52.Ī significant aspect of the developing military professionalism that came as an outgrowth of the Civil War was the founding of professional associations and journals. The Army and Navy Journal was the nation's leading military journal of the time.

Sometimes called 'Army and Navy Journal' or 'Armed Forces Journal,' these 48 issues date from Augto August 20, 1864. 764 pages of the first volume of 'United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces.'

Surgeon h. f. mcsherry us navy civil war 1864