SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS

1835–1906, American general, b. Galesburg, Mich. He served in the Union army during the Civil War and in 1867 joined the regular army, rising to become brigadier general (1897). In the Spanish-American War he was placed in command of the army that in June, 1898, invaded Cuba. After hard fighting at El Caney and San Juan Hill, the expedition entered Santiago on July 17. Shafter was much criticized, however, because the expedition had been poorly prepared and ill-equipped and the mortality rate from disease was high. Shafter retired in 1899 and was advanced to major general on the retired list in 1901.

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Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950
Book by Carl G. Brandt, Edward M. Shafter Jr.; Houghton Mifflin, 1960
Subjects: Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American, United States--History
...on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition...Morris, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Abraham Baldwin, William Few, Rufus King, William Patterson, George Clymer, Richard Bassett, George...
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Death Was the Black Horse: The Story of Rough Rider Buckey O'Neill
Book by Dale L. Walker; University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Subjects: Arizona--Biography, O'Neill, William Owen--1860-1898, Pioneers--Arizona--Biography, Soldiers--Arizona--Biography, Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns, United States--Army--Volunteer Cavalry, 1st--Biography
...William: 174 , 195 Raine, William McLeod: 1 Remington, Frederic...138 , 148 , 152 , 160 Sampson, William T.: 124 , 155 , 159 San Antonio...R.: 38 Sevilla Cuba : 166 Shafter, William Rufus: 146 , 149 , 152 , 157 Sherman...
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Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian
Book by William A. Robinson; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930
Subjects: Reed, Thomas B--(Thomas Brackett)--1839-1902
...speeches, 260 , 262 , 268 ; on The William and Mary College bill, quoted...Representative, B. E., 303 Russell, William E., 377 St. Louis convention...liberal rules of debate, 239 Shafter, William Rufus, 371 Sherman, James S., resolution...
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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War
Book by Donald H. Dyal, Brian B. Carpenter, Mark A. Thomas; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898--Dictionaries
...States and Spain New York: Russell Russell, 1968 . SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS 1835-1906 Born in Michigan, William Rufus Shafter was a schoolteacher at the beginning of the Civil...
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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
Book by Shirley A. Leckie, Alice Kirk Grierson; University of Nebraska Press, 1989
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Grierson, Alice Kirk--1828-1888--Correspondence, Officers' Spouses--West (U.S.)--Correspondence, United States--Army--Military Life--History--19th Century, West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890
...that year as a lieutenant general. 1:865 SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS, from Michigan. Shafter entered the Seventh Michigan Infantry as a...later became colonel of the First Infantry. Shafter was promoted to brigadier general in 1897 and...
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Personality Styles of Effective Soliders
Journal article by Michael Russell; Military Review, Vol. 80, 2000
Subjects: Army-US, Military personnel, Personality, Psychological tests
...War, retired General William T. Sherman, observing...American psychology, William James, wrote in 1898...volunteers. Major General Rufus Shafter, a Medal of Honor winner...Teddy Roosevelt outshone Shafter, not so much by spirit...


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Shafter, William Rufus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS 1835 1906, American general, b. Galesburg...expedition entered Santiago on July 17. Shafter was much criticized, however, because...mortality rate from disease was high. Shafter retired in 1899 and was advanced to...


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