Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865

Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865
ISBN-10
0803295502
ISBN-13
9780803295506
Category
History
Pages
436
Language
English
Published
1967-01-01
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
Robert Marshall Utley

Description

Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught in the lightning moments of desperate battle.

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