the revolutionaries were still inflicting deaths and severe wounds on the American soldiers. When the rainy season started to abate in September 1899, the outlook for the Americans changed abruptly.

NARA But to a young Douglas MacArthur entering West Point in 1899 ... it required a new kind of soldier. Pershing rightfully emerged as the most celebrated American hero of the war.

How the U.S. Army evolved from a group of citizen militias to the more than 950,000 volunteers serving as American soldiers is a story more than 250 years in the making. From the earliest settlers ...