Between 1866 and 1898, 68 officers and 879 enlisted men of the US
Army lost their lives in the Trans-Mississippi Indian Wars, with
more than 1,000 wounded. Here is the full story of each one of
those Officers, professional soldiers all, killed in action during
the last half of the 19th Century as the United States drove
inexorably into the vastness of the American West. The Native
Americans did not go gently onto reservations and their resistance
made the US Army pay a price for opening the continent to White
settlement. In an Army barely large enough to be assigned the task,
promotion was slow, desertion high, pay low, and the daily
hardships now unimaginable. But Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry
Officers alike knew there was no better way to prove one's courage,
devotion to duty, and ambition than to "earn a brevet" in combat
with Hostiles. And on many battlefields, in blazing Summers and
frigid Winters, in deserts, mountains, forests, and prairies, one
after another, Officers pursued the succubus of glory into the face
of violent death. These are their stories, with photos of the men,
their military records, images from the popular press, period
battle maps, information on weapons, uniform illustrations, and
comprehensive lists of all major battles between the many different
Native Americans and the US Army, with units engaged, and losses of
enlisted men, with extensive notes, sources, and bibliography, all
in one pocket volume.
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