Regular Army O! : soldiering on the Western frontier, 1865-1891 /
"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 post-Civil War Army on the western frontier." --
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- "Taking to soldiering": enlistment
- "We are kept pretty busy": life at the recruiting depot
- "Don't grieve after me": the journey west
- "Deployed as skirmishers": regiments and companies in the West
- Brain, bone, and sinew: officers and noncoms
- "It is just dragging out a miserable existence": forts and garrison routine
- "The bed bugs are too numerous for me to sleep": some material aspects of Army life
- "Offensive in every particular": medicine, hygiene, and sanitation
- "It is so lonesome out here": the domestic side of enlisted life
- "We have our little amusements": recreation and pastimes
- "The moral condition is very poor": the seamy side of enlisted life
- "There are a great many deserting from our regiment": the problem of desertion
- "I will see some real Wild-West life": preparing for
- Field service
- "More than I ever thought I could bear": life in the field
- "Our orders were to go after them": regulars and red men
- "The government pays you to get shot at": combat
- "Thank god I am done soldiering": enlistment's end
- Appendixes
- A. 1872 Army pay table
- B. Glossary of Army slang
- Selected regular Army ballads
- Enlisted soldiers whose personal accounts of
- Service were consulted for this book
- "Taking to soldiering": enlistment
- "We are kept pretty busy": life at the recruiting depot
- "Don't grieve after me": the journey west
- "Deployed as skirmishers": regiments and companies in the West
- Brain, bone, and sinew: officers and noncoms
- "It is just dragging out a miserable existence": forts and garrison routine
- "The bed bugs are too numerous for me to sleep": some material aspects of Army life
- "Offensive in every particular": medicine, hygiene, and sanitation
- "It is so lonesome out here": the domestic side of enlisted life
- "We have our little amusements": recreation and pastimes
- "The moral condition is very poor": the seamy side of enlisted life
- "There are a great many deserting from our regiment": the problem of desertion
- "I will see some real Wild-West life": preparing for field service
- "More than I ever thought I could bear": life in the field
- "Our orders were to go after them": regulars and red men
- "The government pays you to get shot at": combat
- "Thank god I am done soldiering": enlistment's end
- Appendixes. A. 1872 Army pay table ; B. Glossary of Army slang ; C. Selected regular Army ballads ; D. Enlisted soldiers whose personal accounts of service were consulted for this book
- "Taking to soldiering": enlistment
- "We are kept pretty busy": life at the recruiting depot
- "Don't grieve after me": the journey west
- "Deployed as skirmishers": regiments and companies in the West
- Brain, bone, and sinew: officers and noncoms
- "It is just dragging out a miserable existence": forts and garrison routine
- "The bed bugs are too numerous for me to sleep": some material aspects of Army life
- "Offensive in every particular": medicine, hygiene, and sanitation
- "It is so lonesome out here": the domestic side of enlisted life
- "We have our little amusements": recreation and pastimes
- "The moral condition is very poor": the seamy side of enlisted life
- "There are a great many deserting from our regiment": the problem of desertion
- "I will see some real Wild-West life": preparing for field service
- "More than I ever thought I could bear": life in the field
- "Our orders were to go after them": regulars and red men
- "The government pays you to get shot at": combat
- "Thank god I am done soldiering": enlistment's end