Produced by Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * VOL. I. April, 1905 No. 4. JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES INFANTRY ASSOCIATION PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE UNITED STATES INFANTRY ASSOCIATION 75 CENTS PER COPY; $3.00 PER YEAR MAJOR WM. P. EVANS, A.A.G., _Editor_ 1800 F STREET NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D.C. Entered July 5, 1904, at the Post Office at Washington, D.C., as second-class matter, under act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1904, by the U.S. Infantry Association. All rights reserved. THE UNITED STATES INFANTRY ASSOCIATION OFFICERS _President._ Major-General J.C. BATES, U.S. Army. _Vice-President._ Lieutenant-Colonel JAS. S. PETTIT, U.S. Infantry. _Assistant Adjutant-General._ _Secretary and Treasurer._ Captain BENJAMIN ALVORD, General Staff. _Executive Council._ Lieutenant-Colonel JAMES S. PETTIT, U.S. Infantry, A.A.G. Major WM. P. EVANS, U.S. Infantry, A.A.G. Major JOHN S. MALLORY, 12th Infantry, G.S. Captain BENJAMIN ALVORD, 25th Infantry, G.S. Captain H.C. HALE, 15th Infantry, G.S. Captain C.H. MUIR, 2d Infantry, G.S. Captain FRANK MCINTYRE, 19th Infantry, G.S. Captain D.E. NOLAN, 30th Infantry, G.S. THE DEFENCE OF DUFFER'S DRIFT. BY CAPTAIN E.D. SWINTON, D.S.O., R.E.--(BACKSIGHT FORETHOUGHT.) BY PERMISSION. PROLOGUE. Upon an evening after a long and tiring trek, I arrived at Dreamdorp. The local atmosphere, combined with a heavy meal, are responsible for the following nightmare, consisting of a series of dreams. To make the sequence of the whole intelligible, it is necessary to explain that, though the scene of each vision was the same, yet by some curious mental process I had no recollection of the place whatsoever. In each dream the locality was totally new to me, and I had an entirely fresh detachment. Thus I had not the great advantage of working over familiar ground. One thing, and one only, was carried on from dream to dream, and that was the vivid recollection of the general lessons previously learnt. These finally produced success. The whole series of dreams, however, remained in my memory as a connected whole when I awoke. FIRST DREAM. "Any fool can get into a hole."--_Old Chinese proverb._