Life Of A Soldier On The Western Frontier
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Life Of A Soldier On The Western Frontier
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Author : Jeremy Agnew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Life Of A Soldier On The Western Frontier written by Jeremy Agnew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Focusing on the Indian Wars period of the 1840s through the 1890s, Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier captures the daily challenges faced by the typical enlisted man and explores the role soldiers played in the conquering of the American frontier.
A Soldier S Life On The Western Frontier In 1813
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Author : Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
A Soldier S Life On The Western Frontier In 1813 written by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with United States categories.
Class And Race In The Frontier Army
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Author : Kevin Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-19
Class And Race In The Frontier Army written by Kevin Adams and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with History categories.
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.
Leftover Soldiers
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Author : Bert Entwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919-01-20
Leftover Soldiers written by Bert Entwistle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919-01-20 with categories.
Leftover Soldiers tells the story of the Western Frontier after the last battle of the Civil War was fought near Brownsville, Texas. When the blood stopped flowing and the rifles were stacked for the last time, Texas became home to thousands of ex-soldiers from both sides, most with few prospects for their future. The story follows three ex-Union soldiers and one Confederate soldier, thrown together by circumstance, trying to move forward with their life on the ragged edges of the frontier. In the winter they find work as buffalo runners on the wide-open prairies of the Texas panhandle. In the spring they sign on as cowboys driving thousands of longhorn cattle north from San Antonio to the newly formed Wyoming Territory. Life on the prairie proves to be another battle against the weather, Indian attacks, displaced men turned outlaws and often against each other. The never-ending strain of the dangerous, back-breaking work helps to dull the horrors of war as each man comes to terms with his own past demons and begins to find his own path to the future on the prairies of the rapidly expanding country.
Regular Army O
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Author : Douglas C. McChristian
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2017-05-04
Regular Army O written by Douglas C. McChristian and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with History categories.
“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 Life In The Army
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Author : Eugene Bandel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Frontier Life In The Army written by Eugene Bandel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with categories.
Bandel's Adventures As Recorded In Letters In German And A Journal In English. Preface By Ralph P. Bieber. The Southwest Historical Series, No. 2.
A Soldier S Life On The Western Frontier In 1813
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
A Soldier S Life On The Western Frontier In 1813 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Life Of Th Enlisted Soldier On The Western Frontier 1815 1845
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Author : Stanley Silton Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Life Of Th Enlisted Soldier On The Western Frontier 1815 1845 written by Stanley Silton Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with West (U.S.) categories.
Life Of The Enlisted Soldier On The Western Frontier 1815 1845
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Author : Stanley Silton Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Life Of The Enlisted Soldier On The Western Frontier 1815 1845 written by Stanley Silton Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Five Years A Cavalryman Or Sketches Of Regular Army Life On The Texas Frontier Twenty Odd Years Ago
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Author : H. H. McConnell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Five Years A Cavalryman Or Sketches Of Regular Army Life On The Texas Frontier Twenty Odd Years Ago written by H. H. McConnell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Personal narrative of army life from approximately 1867-1871. Includes appendices: The cowboy's verdict, by R.G. Carter (pages 301-306) and Cattle-thieving in Texas, by WWW (pages 307-313).