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unit the mobile troops of the regular army and organized militia now stationed in New York and New England, AGO Rpt of Second Section, General Staff 1 Jan–30 Apr 1910, RG 165, NARA.

23 Field Service Regulations, 1910, pp. 36–37.

24 WD GO 35, 1910.

25 Rpt of the Chief of Staff, ARWD, 1910, p. 128.

26 Memo, Chief, Div. of Militia Affairs, to CofS, sub: Revocation of General Orders No. 35, WD 1910, 8 Jul 11, AGO file 6106–3, RG 168, NARA; Report on Mobilization of the Organized Militia and National Guard of the United States (Washington: D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1916), p. 48; WD GO 6, 1914.

27 Rpt of the Sec. of War, Rpt of TAG, Rpt of th QMG, ARWD, 1911, pp. 12–16, 238–41, 337; Memo for record, 7 Mar 11, no subject, Wood Papers, LC.

28 Rpt of the Chief of Staff and Rpt of TAG, ARWD, 1911, pp. 156–57, 238–42. Russell F. Weigley, History of the United States Army (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p. 334. The quote is from ltr, Gen Wood to Col James G. Harbord, 26 Apr 1911, Wood Papers, LC.

29 Clarence C. Clendenen, Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican Irregulars (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 148–49; WCD, "Statement for release in morning papers on Monday, February 3," Wood Papers, LC.

30 Rpt of the Inspector General, ARWD, 1911, pp. 267–69.

31 Rpt of the Chief Signal Officer, ARWD, 1911, pp. 721, 739.

32 Ltr, William Howard Taft to Gen Leonard Wood, 12 Mar 1912, no subject, Wood Papers, LC: Rpt of TAG, ARWD, 1911, p. 242.

33 Ltr, John M. Palmer to J. F. Morrison, 22 Jan 12, John McA. Palmer Papers, LC; I. B. Honey, Jr., General John M. Palmer, Citizen Soldiers, and the Army of a Democracy (Westport, Corm: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 202–05.

34 Rpt on the Organization of Land Forces of the United States, Appendix A, ARWD, 1912, p. 125.

35 Rpt Sec. of War, ARWD, 1912, pp. 14–16; Ltr, AG. Mass. to Gen Wood, 3 Oct 1912, Wood Papers, LC (other letters from state adjutants general are in the Wood Papers; Memo for CofS, draft of Ltr to governors on the reorganization of the National Guard, 6 Nov 12, War College Division, Army Staff (hereafter cited as WCD), 7409–1, RG 168, NARA.

36 WD GO 9, 1913; WCD, "Statement for release in morning papers on Monday, February 3," 1 Feb 13, Wood Papers, LC.

37 "General Orders No. 9," Infantry Journal 9 (Mar–Apr 1913): 706–08.

38 George Van Horn Moseley, "One Soldier's Journey," Ms history, 3 vols., 1:103, Moseley Papers, LC; Memo 52103, C, Division of Militia Affairs, to C, WCD, sub: Organized Military Divisional Organization, 12 Jan 15, AGO file 7409–25, RG 168, NARA; WD Cir 8, 1913, and 19, 1914; "The Division Plan," National Guard Magazine 10 (Jan 1913): 14.

39 Rpt of the Sec. of War and Rpt of the C of S, ARWD, 1913, pp. 31, 174; GO 7, State of New York, 1908, printed in Rpt of the Adjutant General, State of New York, 1908, p. 270; GO 1, Pennsylvania National Guard, 1879, printed in Rpt of the Adjutant General, Pennsylvania, 1879, p. 83.

40 Memo, WCD for C of S, 21 Feb 1914, sub: Tables of Organization, US Army, 1914, AGO file 8371, RG 165, NARA; Tables of Organization: U.S. Army, 1914 (Washington: D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914), p. 19 (hereafter cited as TO, 1914).

41 TO, 1914, p. 19; James A. Huston, Sinews of War: Army Logistics (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1966), p. 295; Wagner, Organization and Tactics, pp. 19–20.

42 TO, 1914, pp. 12–13, 19.

43 McClure, "The Infantry Division." p. 10; Report on the Organization of Land Forces in ARWD, 1912, pp. 103–04.

44 TO, 1914, pp. 14, 23; Report on the Organization of Land Forces, pp. 104–05.

45 Field Service Regulations 1914, p. 10.

46 Rpt of the Sec. of War, ARWD, 1912, pp. 13–14; Rpt of the Sec. of War and Rpt of the Second Division, ARWD, 1913, pp. 9–10, 113; Thomas P Burdett, "Mobilizations of 1911 and