Around the World with Uncle Sam: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Around the World with Uncle Sam, credited to Herbert Orlando Kohr, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Around the World with Uncle Sam by Herbert Orlando Kohr. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Around the World with Uncle Sam; or Six Years in the United States Army "A true story of travel and adventure by a former enlisted man of the ranks in the U.S. Army. Beginning with recruit life soldiering in Colorado, in the war with Spain, campaigning in Cuba, at Battle of El Caney, capitulation of Santiago; later, traveling across the great American continent, sailing across the Pacific, in the Philippines, a year in China during Boxing trouble, through the Suez Canal, a great storm on the Atlantic, completing the tour of the world. This book dictated by a blink man." - Summary by copied from the title page

Recording facts

• Recording title: Around the World with Uncle Sam
• Author credits: Herbert Orlando Kohr
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 6:55:42

Catalogue topics

• Spanish-American War
• u.s. army - infantry regiment
• 7th
• 1898 - personal narratives
• philippines - history - philippine american war
• 1899-1902 - personal narratives
• china - history - boxer rebellion
• 1899-1901

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:49
2. 01 - My First Great Parade, or the Cause of My Enlistment in the Army — 13:42
3. 02 - A Recruit at Fort Logan, or Two Years' Service in Colorado — 55:05
4. 03 - Farewell to Fort Logan. War Declared. From Colorado to Tampa. Sailing to Cuba. — 27:23
5. 04 - Landing at Baiquiri. Our Forces March to Las Guasimas. The Battle of El Caney. Capture of Santiago — 38:24
6. 05 - Awaiting our Transport. Home Again. Sailing for Manila — 31:14
7. 06 - Landing in Manila. Campaigning with General McArthur's Division. On the North Line — 34:51
8. 07 - Campaigning on the South Line with General Schwan. The Wonderful Volcano at Lagaspi. With General Bates' Expedition to the Province of Canierines in the Southern Portion of Luzon — 40:47
9. 08 - Back to Manila. Sailing for China. The Battle of Tientsin — 34:41
10. 09 - The Advance from Tientsin. The Capture of Peking. Relieving the Legations — 33:17
11. 10 - A Winter in China. Back to the Philippines — 27:14
12. 11 - From Manila to New York by Way of Suez Canal — 23:30
13. 12 - Army Happenings — 29:40
14. 13 - Prologue — 22:05

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