Revision of the Articles of War: Hearing before the Committee on Military Affairs U.S. Congress House of Representatives, Sixty-Second Congress 2nd Session on H. R. 23628, Being a Project for the Revision of the Articles of War May 14, 22, 23, 25, and 27, 1912

Just as the Comparison of Proposed New Articles of War with the Present Articles of War and Other Related Statutes, this publication opens with letters of transmittal. The first letter is from then Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, dated April 19, 1912 and addressed to the Honorable James Hay, Chairman of the Military Committee of the House of Representatives. The second letter is from Judge Advocate General Enoch H. Crowder to Secretary Stimson, dated April 12, 1912. The full text of the Committee hearings follows the letters of transmittal.
Three appendixes are included:
Appendix A: [Extract of report of Judge Advocate General on military prison]
Appendix B: [Extract from a report of the Inspector General of the Army giving the recent inspection by him of the detention barracks of the British Army]
Appendix C: [Table comparing American Articles of War of 1874 with earlier similar American, British and Swedish documents]
(Library of Congress Call Number UB500.A3 1912; OCLC Number 44467859)

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