Notes
1 Rpt of the Sec. of War, ARWD, 1899, p. 49.
2 Ibid.
3 WD GO 120, 1903.
4 Ltr. Capt Joseph. T. Dickman to Brig Gen J. Franklin Bell, 16 Sep 1904, no subject, and Ltr. Brig Gen J. Franklin Bell to Capt J. T. Dickman, 11 Nov 04, no subject, AGO file 1168, RG 393, NARA; Field Service Regulations, United States Army, 1905, see table of contents.
5 Field Service Regulations, 1905 pp. 11–13; Arthur Wagner, Organization and Tactics, 7th ed. (Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1906), pp. 11–12; Paul Bronsart Van Schellendorff, The Duties of the General Staff, 4th ed. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1905), pp. 223–26, 235–38; William Balck, Taktik [Tactics], vol. 3, Kriegsgliederung, Nachrichten, Befehle, Marschdienst (Military Organization, Communications, Orders, and Marches), 4th ed. (Berlin: R. Eisenschmidt, 1903–07), pp. 16–17, 28–33.
6 Field Service Regulations, 1905, p. 44; Memo Rpt, War Plans Division to the C of S, 5 May 1905, sub: A Proper Proportion of field artillery for the mobile army of the U.S. AGO file, Journal, Reports and Related Paper of the Third Division, 1903–1910, RG 165, NARA.
7 N. F. McClure, "The Infantry Division and Its Composition," Journal of the Military Service Institution 50 (Jan–Feb 1912): 5–9.
8 Field Service Regulations 1905, p. 12, 87–88. Infantry and cavalry regiments were the largest permanent units in the peacetime Army. In 1901 Congress abolished artillery regiments (coast and field). Field artillery regiments were reestablished in 1907.
9 Field Service Regulations, 1905, pp. 25–26.
10 Ibid., p. 12.
11 Ibid.
12 WD Cirs 28, 50, and 61, 1905. In 1903 Congress revised the militia system, dividing the militia into Organized Militia and Reserve Militia classes. The Reserve Militia consisted of an unorganized manpower pool, while the Organized Militia, commonly known as the National Guard, included those units maintained by the states, territories, and District of Columbia. When discussing the National Guard, the District of Columbia is treated as a state unless otherwise noted.
13 WD GO 7, 1903.
14 Timothy K. Nenninger, The Leavenworth Schools and the Old Army (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1978), p. 22–23; Rpt of the Sec. of War, ARWD, 1899, pp. 48–49, ARWD, 1902, pp. 50–52; Jamieson, Crossing the Deadly Ground, pp. 60–62. Camp Root, Kansas, today is Camp Whiteside, a subpost of Fort Riley.
15 ARWD, 1904, p. 30, ARWD, 1906, p. 47, ARWD, 1908, p. 37, ARWD, 1909, pp. 28–32; Rpt of the Chief of Staff, ARWD, 1904,' p. 223.
16 Rpt of the Chief of Staff, ARWD, 1906, pp. 552–53; Ltr. Brig Gen J. Franklin Bell to Gen Leonard Wood, 18 Apr 12, Wood Papers, Library of Congress (hereafter cited as LC).
17 Rpt of the Sec. of War, ARWD, 1909, pp. 28–32; "The First Field Army, the Initial Step in the Correlation of the Regular Army with the National Guard," The National Guard Magazine 6 (Apr 1910): 352–54; WD GO 35, 1910.
18 McClure, "The Infantry Division," pp. 6–9; Field Service Regulations, 1910, p. 13.
19 Field Service Regulations, 1910, p. 13.
20 Army and Navy Journal 46 (22 May 09): 1063; Ltr. CG. Philippine Dept, to Army C of S, 27 Jan 1914, sub: Revision of Field Service Regulations, Wood Papers, LC; Field Service Regulations, 1910, pp. 12–13, 15, 42–45; Edgar Raines, "MG J. Franklin Bell and Military Reform; The Chief of Staff Years, 1906–1910" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1976), p. 470; Mahon and Danysh, Infantry Part 1, pp. 380.
21 Field Service Regulations, 1910, p. 15–16.
22 Ibid., p. 13, 34–35; Memo for Secretary, Second Section, Army Staff, 1 Feb 1910, sub: Report of Committee of Second Section, General Staff, on proposed scheme for organizing into one
