The Everyday Patriot Project

  Corporal Nathan Edward Galloway was born on February 18, 1879, in Springfield, Missouri, and in his early years would carve buttons out of mussel shells for his mother. He enlisted in the US Army on May 30, 1901, was assigned to the 28th Infantry, and deployed to the Philippines during the Phillippine-American war.  After returning home in 1904, Corporal Nathan Galloway supported himself and his wife with farming and began selling carved wooden furniture and trinkets. In addition, he maintained an art studio in Springfield, Missouri. He was preparing for his worldwide artistic debut at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition when, on July 18, 1913, a fire engulfed most of a Springfield city block, including his art studio.  After the fire, Corporal Nathan Galloway took a job at Charles Page's Sand Springs Boys Home in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where he taught woodworking skills to the boys. He remained a teacher until his retirement in 1937. Corporal Galloway mov...

    Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield was born on September 29, 1831, in Gerry, New York. While young, his family moved to Freeport, Illinois, where he graduated from local public schools. After graduation, General McAllister briefly worked as a school teacher and helped with the family farm. He also surveyed parts of Northern Wisconsin before receiving his appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point in 1849. He graduated in 1853.  He was briefly assigned to Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, before heading to Florida to guard US assets there during the truce before the Third Seminole War. After catching a tropical fever (probably malaria) and dysentery, General Schofield was evacuated.  General John Schofield would return to West Point to teach philosophy and, feeling like his career had stalled, took a brief leave of absence to teach physics in St. Louis at Washington University. He returned to active duty with the 1st Missouri Infantry at the begin...