Some Memories of A Soldier

New York: The Century Company, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and decorated in blind stamping to the front board. 673pp. A very good, clean and strong copy with some bumping to the corners and spine ends and some small superficial marks to the cloth. Internally clean. Author's signature tipped in on a slip of paper to the front flyleaf. An autobiographical account of Scott's military career, spanning his graduating from West Point in 1876, being part of the 7th Cavalry's efforts to suppress the Native American tribes of the frontier (Scott was the officer commanding Geronimo's band when they were kept prisoner at Fort Sill), his attempts to keep the peace between Native American tribes and the US military at the numerous points things threatened to boil over, and continuing all the way up to World War 1 when Scott was the Army Chief of Staff between 1914 and 1917, covering the densest period of US involvement in the conflict.