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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 68 French army maneuvers, 1884 Major General , United States army , San Francisco 1886 88
Chapter 68: French army maneuvers, 1884; promotion to Major General, United States army, San Francisco 1886-88
In Paris, September 4, 1884, Lieutenant John P. Wisser, United States Army, who came to me by direction of our War Department, Captain Guy Howard, and myself joined the French officers who were designated to guide us during the maneuvers of the Seventeenth Corps d'arm~e in the south of France.
A genial young officer, Colonel Rigault, had special charge of us because we were delegates from the United States.
From that time to the closing review on September 13th, our delegation, with representative officers from various other nations, was taken by rail by carriages, or on horseback from place to place.
At first, arriving at any desired station, horses, with mounted orderlies holding them, were ready that we might follow up and see the military exercises which were already mapped out. We hastened on through groves, forests, or open fields, often galloping to the most pr