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Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159030
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( 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 After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them.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.

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159022
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( 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 784 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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Officers, Subcommittee No.1, Personnel Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, Hearings on H.R. 2536 to Provide for the Procurement, Promotion, and Elimination of Regular Army Officers and for Other Purposes ; and H.R. 2537 to Regulate the Distribution, Promotion, and Retirement of Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, to Provide for the Advancement of Enlisted Personnel to the Commissioned Grades, and for Other Purposes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Rickey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806172509
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay written by Don Rickey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers. As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and endurance, created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible. We should know more about the common soldier in our military past, and here he is. The rank and file regular, then as now, was psychologically as well as physically isolated from most of his fellow Americans. The people were tired of the military and its connotations after four years of civil war. They arrayed their army between themselves and the Indians, paid its soldiers their pittance, and went about the business of mushrooming the nation’s economy. Because few enlisted men were literarily inclined, many barely able to scribble their names, most previous writings about them have been what officers and others had to say. To find out what the average soldier of the post-Civil War frontier thought, Don Rickey, Jr., asked over three hundred living veterans to supply information about their army experiences by answering questionnaires and writing personal accounts. Many of them who had survived to the mid-1950’s contributed much more through additional correspondence and personal interviews. Whether the soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns.

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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Regular Army Reserve written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reorganization of the Army written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Earle Chamberlain
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Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reorganization of the Army written by George Earle Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1678 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Total Pages : 1664 pages
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Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.