David Frakes Day, Civil War hero and notorious frontier newspaperman / Michael David Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Michael David, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Day, David F. (David Frakes), 1847-1914.

Day, David F.

United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 57th (1861-1865).

Newspaper editors--Colorado--Biography.

Newspaper editors.

Journalists--Colorado--Biography.

Journalists.

United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 57th (1861-1865)--Biography.

United States.

History.

Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

Ohio.

Colorado.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 287 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011.

Summary:

"After the start of the Civil War David Frakes Day told the "patriotic lie" when he falsified his age and enlisted in 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Day's postwar career as a journalist in Colorado proved no less treacherous. In this biography, Day takes his rightful place among the intriguing figures of the Civil War and the American West"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Different names every Saturday night

The forlorn hope

No law but the gun

Took war as the fates decreed

We believed in God, but was too busy to say so

Cow catcher of the political department

A Zulu word meaning virgin

A fresh roasting every morning

God save the queen

The muldoon is as about as popular as a stone bruise

Everything but the g strings

Against personified

Between the savior and the sky pilots

When we ascend the golden clothes pole

Conclusion

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786461585

0786461586

OCLC:

668182914