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Sagebrush Soldier

Author : Sherry L. Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133355
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Sagebrush Soldier written by Sherry L. Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men - Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook - in public and private poses. His diary covers the war from the enlisted men’s viewpoint, as he worries about what he will eat and how he will keep warm in freezing conditions, and how he will keep calm when bullied by the sergeant major, of whom he says he would give "five years of my life to [have] walked up to him and smacked him in the nose." To complete the picture of the Sioux War, and particularly the Powder River Expedition, Sherry Smith frames Private Smith’s narrative with contemporary accounts written by other participants in these events. She assembles a balanced, comprehensive history by also incorporating the testimony of officers, their Indian scouts and allies, and their enemy, the Northern Cheyennes. In camp on Christmas Eve, 1876, Smith bought a can of peaches, which cost him two dollars, to share with his bunkmate. Meanwhile, he sees another man give ten dollars for a bottle of whiskey. His own words best convey the feelings of a young man far from home at Christmas: "We had a regular Old Christmas Dinner, a little piece of fat bacon and hard tack and a half cup of coffee. You bet I thought of home now if ever I did. But fate was a gane me and I could not bee there. My Bunkey bought some candy and we ate it." Christmas candy and thoughts of home; some things never change, as readers will learn in this picture of military life unique in its eloquent honesty.

The Deadliest Indian War in the West

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 0870044877
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Deadliest Indian War in the West written by Gregory Michno and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregroy Michno, author of several critically acclaimed books on America's Indian wars, gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that, over a four-year period, claimed more lives than any other western Indian War.

Regular Army O!

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159030
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Regular Army O! written by Douglas C. McChristian and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Class and Race in the Frontier Army

Author : Kevin Adams
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185139
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Class and Race in the Frontier Army written by Kevin Adams and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post–Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class divide” that overshadowed ethnic prejudices. Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records and soldiers’ diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life—from work and leisure to consumption, intellectual pursuits, and political activity—and shows that an inflexible class barrier stood between officers and enlisted men. As Adams relates, officers lived in relative opulence while enlistees suffered poverty, neglect, and abuse. Although racism was ingrained in official policy and informal behavior, no similar prejudice colored the experience of soldiers who were immigrants. Officers and enlisted men paid much less attention to ethnic differences than to social class—officers flaunting and protecting their status, enlisted men seething with class resentment. Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life in that era—with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging class-consciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.

The American Soldier, 1866-1916

Author : John A. Haymond
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632081
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The American Soldier, 1866-1916 written by John A. Haymond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Civil War, the U.S. Army underwent a professional decline. Soldiers served their enlistments at remote, nameless posts from Arizona to Alaska. Harsh weather, bad food and poor conditions were adversaries as dangerous as Indian raiders. Yet under these circumstances, men continued to enlist for $13 a month. Drawing on soldiers’ narratives, personal letters and official records, the author explores the common soldier’s experience during the Reconstruction Era, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Punitive Expedition into Mexico.

Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297753
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army written by Robert Wooster and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army.

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133867
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (338 download)

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Book Synopsis The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West by : Michael L. Tate

Download or read book The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.

Nature's Army

Author : Harvey Meyerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Army written by Harvey Meyerson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the instrumental role that the Old Army played as environmentally minded stewards of Yosemite before the creation of the National Park Service.

A Companion to American Military History

Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444315110
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Military History written by James C. Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study

The American Military Frontiers

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826338445
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The American Military Frontiers written by Robert Wooster and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the U.S. Army, Western experiences illustrated its role in ensuring national security and in fostering national development. Its soldiers performed feats of great heroism and rank cruelty. Debates regarding the military's role in projecting Indian policy, the division of power between state and federal authorities, and the size of a professional military establishment reveal the inconsistency in the nation's views of its army.

The United States Army and the Making of America

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700630643
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The United States Army and the Making of America written by Robert Wooster and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield. Repeatedly, Americans used the army not only to secure their expanding empire and fight their enemies, but to shape their nation and their vision of who they were, often in ways not directly associated with shooting wars or combat. That the regular army served as nation-builders is ironic, given the officer corps’ obsession with a warrior ethic and the deep-seated disdain for a standing army that includes Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and debates regarding congressional appropriations. Whether the issue concerned Indian policy, the appropriate division of power between state and federal authorities, technology, transportation, communications, or business innovations, the public demanded that the military remain small even as it expected those forces to promote civilian development. Robert Wooster’s exhaustive research in manuscript collections, government documents, and newspapers builds upon previous scholarship to provide a coherent and comprehensive history of the U.S. Army from its inception during the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War. Wooster integrates its institutional history with larger trends in American history during that period, with a special focus on state-building and civil-military relations. The United States Army and the Making of America will be the definitive book on the army’s relationship with the nation from its founding to the dawn of the twentieth century and will be a valuable resource for a generation of undergraduates, graduate students, and virtually any scholar with an interest in the U.S. Army, American frontiers and borderlands, the American West, or eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nation-building.

United States Army Combat Forces Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Army Combat Forces Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-08 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

Author : Brad D. Lookingbill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119129737
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign written by Brad D. Lookingbill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture

Fort Lewis and Yakima Training Center, Fort Lewis Army Growth and Force Structure Realignment

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Fort Lewis and Yakima Training Center, Fort Lewis Army Growth and Force Structure Realignment written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Army Aviation

Author : James W. Williams
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595366082
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A History of Army Aviation written by James W. Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .spellbinding history., the how, what, when, where and why.some never told and certainly not always understood. This is a story that has begged to be told, .with sources and substance heretofore missing. Historians, military scholars, and aviators, .will rely on this work for years. Carl H. McNair, Jr., Major General, U.S. Army (Retired) 'This is worth a good read.a welcome and long overdue history of Army Aviation." Joseph L. Galloway, senior military correspondent, Knight Ridder Newspapers and co-author, We Were Soldiers Once.and Young Soldiers, scholars, and aviation enthusiasts alike can learn much from this comprehensive examination.. .successfully blends lively and insightful historical narrative with astute analysis. .unfailingly honest assessment of.contributions to our national defense. Carol Reardon, Pennsylvania State University, author of LAUNCH THE INTRUDERS .tightly written and focused.traces the aviation branch from its inception through two world wars, the loss of a major portion to the new Air Force, .up through its current role.. .required reading for anyone who desires to understand.Army aviation. Darrel Whitcomb, author of The Rescue of Bat 21, and Combat Search and Rescue in Desert Storm .tells the whole story concisely by addressing seven key themes. .crisp prose and well-chosen illustrations.. This old ground-pounder owes his life to.brave crews of Army birds. Henry Gole, Ph.D./Colonel (ret.), author of Soldiering

Department of the Army Appropriations for 1956

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Army Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1764 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Department of the Army Appropriations for 1956 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Army Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: