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Frontier cavalryman : Lieutenant John Bigelow with the Buffalo Soldiers in Texas / Marcos E. Kinevan.
LIBRA UB418.925.A47 K5 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinevan, Marcos E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--African American troops.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- Bigelow, John, 1854-1936.
- Bigelow, John.
- United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th.
- United States. Army. Cavalry--History.
- United States. Army. Cavalry.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso, Tex. : Texas Western Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- In 1877, John Bigelow Jr. and seventy-five other cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after which he chronicled his experiences, observations, opinions, and musings as a young Cavalry lieutenant in Texas. Sixty of the new lieutenants, including Bigelow and seventeen others who were assigned to black regiments called Buffalo Soldiers, soon departed for the frontier where they were scattered over numerous small and often ramshackle posts and camps. Their work of training soldiers, exploring and patrolling wilderness areas, protecting the mail, travelers, and settlers, chasing and sporadically clashing with unpacified Indians, and enforcing federal laws and policies was usually arduous, occasionally dangerous and seldom glorious. Yet the value of their accomplishments was immense. In addition to providing a comprehensive view of army life in the late 1870s, including the social practices and prevailing Victorian customs, the author addresses the widespread attitudes of the times toward the Buffalo Soldiers and how these views changed when black and white soldiers fought side by side against common foes. Also portrayed are the results of sending poorly prepared officers and men to fight in unconventional conflicts, desertion-inciting conditions and practices, and how an obsolete military justice system developed into a model of fairness far in advance of its civilian counterparts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874042437 :
- OCLC:
- 38756808
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