Fort Leavenworth and the Soldiers’ Home - With Sketches of Leavenworth, and of the Men and Tragedies That Have Made Her Famous #232652

Through him I came to know the full value of our American Union. That object-lesson in self-government. Uplifted to aspiring races. Around which is gathered an impregnable bulwark of defense; the most virile people on the globe-a nation of fresh young blood. Augmented. Renewed. And admted by a continuous influx of the most adventurous and daring from the uttermost corners of the earth.