Venustiano Carranza met Col. Augustus P. Blocksom on the International Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. People were smiling, but all was not well.
Blocksom had been in the Army since 1877. He was a cavalryman and would rise to the rank of Maj. General during World War One, although he would serve in the Great War as a training officer, completing his service as the commander of the Army in the Pacific. His career had been very distinguished. He retired in 1918, and died in 1931 at age 76.
Blocksom i n1918, with the stress of the war, even stateside, very clearly showing on him.
Woodrow Wilson created the Walnut Canyon National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona.
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