. >> you next, timothy nenninger president of the citadel for 20 years. timothy nenninger discusses his book at the annual association of the u.s. army meeting held at the washington convention center in washington d.c.. the program is about 35 minutes. >> i would like to speak a little bit about the genesis of the manuscript and then give you summerall's career and buy a think he is an important figure in the history of the american army in the early 20th century and why i think is memoirs are worth reading. summerall wrote this in 1950. he was an octogenarian approaching retirement with a couple of years from the presidency of the said at all. he wrote it, hand coded on legal size paper. he had no, he had no intent to publish the manuscript. he did it at his grand said said for diversion and to enlighten his family about his career. and he died within three years of having completed the manuscript, at which point his son type the handwritten manuscript, created a 185 singlespaced very dense pages and for many years this manuscript was in the possession

timothy nenninger discusses his book at the annual dissociation of the u.s. army meeting, held at the washington convention center in washington d.c. the program is about 35 minutes. >> i'd like to speak a little bit about the genesis of the manuscript and then give you a brief overview of general transcendent's review and why he was -- why i think his memoir is worth reading. summerall wrote this in 1903. he was approaching retirement and a couple years from his citadel. he had wrote it on legal size paper. he had no intent to publish the manuscript. he did it as his grandson said, for diversion and to enlighten his family about his career. and he died within three years of having completed the manuscript at which point his son typed or handwritten manuscripts, created 185 single space, very dense pages. and for many years, his manuscript is in the possession of the archives of the citadel in charleston. in 1998, the general's grandson, charles b. summerall the third, still living in charleston, donated the rights to the division of runway with intent to man

timothy nenninger discusses his book at the annual association of the u.s. army meeting held at the washington convention center in washington, d.c.. the program is about 35 minutes. >> i'd like to speak a little bit about the genesis of the manuscript, and then give you a brief overview of general summerall's career, and why i think he is an important figure in history of the american army in the early 20th century, and i think his memoirs is worth reading. summerall wrote his memoir in 1950. he wasn't optogenetics you was approaching retirement within a couple of years from the presidency of the citadel. he wrote it, had wrote it on legal sized paper. he had no, he had no intent to publish the manuscript. he did it as his grandson said, for diversion, and to enlighten his family about his career. and he died within three years of having completed the manuscript. at which point his son tied the handwritten manuscript, created 185 angle space, very dense pages. and for many years, this manuscript was in the possession of the archives of the citadel in charle