The first edition of
The War Cry was printed on 27 December 1879 in London, England. In 1880, US Salvation Army
Commissioner George Scott Railton published the
Salvation News, a small newsletter. He published the first US edition of
The War Cry in January 1881 in
St. Louis, Missouri. Between 1920 and 1970, each U.S. territory published its own individual version of
The War Cry. In 1970, the Salvation Army's US National Headquarters started publishing a nationwide version of
The War Cry. ==Notes and references==