Editing Frederick Funston (section)

===United States and overseas again===
[[File:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg|thumb|left|500px|San Francisco, 1906: Aftermath of the fire]]
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In 1906, Funston was commander of the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] when the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] hit. He declared [[martial law]], although he did not have the authority to do so, and martial law was never officially declared.<ref>Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts: ''The San Francisco Earthquake'' (Stein and Day, New York; Souvenir Press, London, 1971; reprinted Dell, 1972, {{ISBN|081281360X}}, p. 83)</ref> Funston attempted to defend the city from the spread of fire, and directed the demolition of buildings using explosives to create [[firebreak]]s, but his orders often resulted in more fires.<ref name=Lafler>{{cite web|last=Lafler|first=Henry Anderson|title=How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco: An Attack on General Funston|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/lafler.html|work=Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco|publisher=(Originally, Calkins Newspaper Syndicate, 1906)|access-date=7 February 2013}}</ref> Funston gave orders to shoot all looters on sight; however, these orders resulted in numerous cases of innocent people being shot.<ref name=Lafler/>

[[File:Funston's house in SanFran.png|thumb|Col. Funston and Eda in their family living room in the Presidio of San Francisco]]

At the time, local officials praised Funston's actions in the earthquake and fire emergency.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funston and Pershing, the Generals in Charge of the Chase After Villa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTr91axBWiMC&q=funston+san-francisco+earthquake+praise&pg=PA318 |work=Current Opinion |date=May 1916 | quote = ...he and his officers and men won laurels for the Regular Army and evoked paeans of praise from the civil authorities of San Francisco|last1 = Wheeler|first1 = Edward Jewitt|last2 = Crane|first2 = Frank}}</ref> Historians have since taken issue with some of his actions in the disaster, arguing that he should not have used military forces in a peacetime emergency.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nobleman |first1=Marc Tyler |title=The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 |date=2007 |publisher=Capstone |page=24 |isbn=9780756524609 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5b07Y-K9G8C&q=%22historians+feel+that+funston+made+an+error%22+emergency&pg=PA24 |access-date=25 August 2018 | quote = Historians feel that Funston made an error in judgment by calling in armed soldiers during a peacetime emergency.}}</ref>

From December 1907 through March 1908, Funston was in charge of troops at the [[Goldfield, Nevada|Goldfield]] mining center in [[Esmeralda County, Nevada]], where the army put down a [[labor strike]] by the [[Industrial Workers of the World]].{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

After two years as commandant of the [[Army Service School]] in [[Fort Leavenworth]], Funston served three years as commander of the Department of Luzon in the Philippines. He was briefly shifted to the same role in the Hawaiian Department (April 3, 1913, to January 22, 1914).{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Funston was active in the United States' conflict with [[Mexico]] in 1914 to 1916, as commanding general of the army's Southern Department, being promoted to [[Major general (United States)|major general]] in November 1914. He was commander of [[Fort Sam Houston]] in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], where he prodded Second Lieutenant [[Dwight Eisenhower]] into becoming the football coach for the [[Peacock Military Academy]] and later approved Eisenhower's request of leave for his wedding.<ref name="Team America">{{Cite book |last=O'Connell |first=Robert L. |title=Team America |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2022 |isbn=9780062883322 |edition=1st |pages=117–119, 122}}</ref> He occupied the city of [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]]. He commanded all forces involved in the hunt for [[Pancho Villa]], and provided security for the United States border with Mexico during the "[[Bandit War]]".{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}