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Title: Fifty Years in Camp and Field; Diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock (American Biography Series) by Ethan Allen Hitchcock ISBN: 0-7812-8185-7 Publisher: Reprint Services Corp Pub. Date: January, 1909 Format: Library Binding List Price(USD): $99.00

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Summary: Fifty Years in Camp and Field; Diary MG Ethan A. Hitchcock
Comment: There are many remarkable men, and women, who have passed into history with little lasting note of the life they lived, some of them, because of a lack of source material, but some for inexplicable reasons. Ethan Allen Hitchcock is one of these persons. This book reviews the life of one of the greatest military thinkers America has developed. It contains the edited near daily diaries and correspondence of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, an American hero.

The book begins with the early American history of New England, and proceeds through the personal history of this most remarkable man. General Hitchcock entered West Point Military Academy, in 1814, at the age of 16 years. The grandson of General Ethan Allen the American Revolution war hero, Hitchcock, begins his search for the true meaning of life, God, and the American army with his first diary of 1818.

These diaries commence on his 20th birthday, shortly after graduation from West Point. Hitchcock's diaries detail his meetings, his involvement in momentous events of his day, and his summations and opinions of those events, up to his death in 1870. Hitchcock served his army, and our country, with honor, integrity and distinction in many roles.

He was at various times Inspector General, Commandant of Cadets at West Point, and personal military advisor to President Lincoln and the Secretary of War during the US Civil war. Many of the successful decisions in the use of manpower and equipment during this period were from the head, heart and hand of Major-General Hitchcock.

After reading this book, I am compelled to read the complete and unedited personal diaries. I feel that many historical works in print need to be changed in light of these first hand accounts and observations herein given personal attention by Major-General Hitchcock.