Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 write by Durwood Ball. This book was released on 2001. Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unlike previous histories, this book argues that the politics of slavery profoundly influenced the western mission of the regular army - affecting the hearts and minds of officers and enlisted men both as the nation plummented toward civil war."--BOOK JACKET.
Regular Army O!
Regular Army O! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regular Army O! write by Douglas C. McChristian. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Regular Army O! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers—drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs—to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier. After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them. In actions involving American Indians between 1866 and 1891, 875 of these soldiers were killed, mainly in minor skirmishes, while many more died of disease, accident, or effects of the natural environment. What induced these men to enlist for five years and to embrace the grim prospect of combat is one of the enduring questions this book explores. Going well beyond Don Rickey Jr.’s classic work Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (1963), McChristian plumbs the regulars’ accounts for frank descriptions of their training to be soldiers; their daily routines, including what they ate, how they kept clean, and what they did for amusement; the reasons a disproportionate number occasionally deserted, while black soldiers did so only rarely; how the men prepared for field service; and how the majority who survived mustered out. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making.
Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 write by Robert M. Utley. This book was released on 1973. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Details the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion.
The United States Army on the Interwar Frontier, 1848-1861
The United States Army on the Interwar Frontier, 1848-1861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United States Army on the Interwar Frontier, 1848-1861 write by Larry Durwood Ball. This book was released on 1994. The United States Army on the Interwar Frontier, 1848-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886
Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886 write by Janne Lahti. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have mined military records, descendants’ recollections, genealogical sources, and even folklore to tell common soldiers’ stories. The essays examine enlisted soldiers’ cross-cultural interactions and dynamic, situational identities. They illuminate the intersections of class, culture, and race in the nineteenth-century Southwest. The men who served under U.S. or Mexican flags and on the payrolls of the federal government or as state or territorial volunteers represented most of the major ethnicities in the West—Hispanics, African Americans, Indians, American-born Anglos, and recent European immigrants—and many moved fluidly among various social and ethnic groups. For example, though usually described as an Apache scout, Mickey Free was born to Mexican parents, raised by an American stepfather, adopted by an Apache father, given an Irish name, and was ultimately categorized by federal authorities as an Irish Mexican White Mountain Apache. George Goldsby, a former slave of mixed ancestry, served as a white soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, and then served twelve years as a “Buffalo Soldier” in the all-black Tenth U.S. Cavalry. He also claimed some American Indian ancestry and was rumored to have crossed the Mexican border to fight alongside Pancho Villa. What motivated these soldiers? Some were patriots and adventurers. Others were destitute and had few other options. Enlisted men received little professional training, and possibilities for advancement were few. Many of these men witnessed, underwent, or inflicted extreme violence, some of it personal and much of it related to excruciating military campaigns. Spotlighting ordinary men who usually appear on the margins of history, the biographical essays collected here tell the stories of soldiers in the complex world of the Southwest after the U.S.-Mexican War.
