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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1885 Edition.
1885. An insightful description of garrison and camp life by the wife of Geroge Armstrong Custer. Due to the isolation of the Calvary posts she says they often felt as separate from the rest of the world as if they had been living on a desert island. She also answers questions that were often posed to her concerning their occupations, amusements and housekeeping. Contents: Change of Station; A Blizzard; Western Hospitality; Calvary on the March; Camping Among the Sioux; A Visit to the Village of Two Bears; Adventures During the Last Days of the March; Separation and Reunion; Our New Home at Fort Lincoln; Incidents of Everyday Life; The Burning of our Quarters, Carrying the Mail; Perplexities and Pleasures of Domestic Life; A Strong Heart Dance ; Garrison Life; General Custer's Literary Work; Indian Depredations; A Day of Anxiety and Terror; Improvements at the Post and Gardening; General Custer's Library; The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition; Domestic Trials; Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-Face; Garrison Amusements; An Indian Council; Breaking Up of the Missouri; Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us; Religious Services, Leave of Absence; A Winter's Journey Across the Plains; and Our Life's Last Chapter.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
From the Army of the Potomac to the Plains Indian War
From the Army of the Potomac to the Plains Indian War
The wife of a famous soldier on campaign on the Western Plains of
America
Boots and Saddles- OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER by ELIZABETH B. CUSTER. Preface: ONE of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has been to give a glimpse to civilians of garrison and camp life about which they seem to have such a very imperfect knowledge. This ignorance exists especially with reference to any thing pertaining to the cavalry, which is almost invariably stationed on the extreme frontier. The isolation of the cavalry posts makes them quite in accessible to travelers, and the exposure incident to meet ing warlike Indians does not tempt the visits of friends or even of the venturesome tourist. Our life, therefore, was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean. Very little has been written regarding the domestic life of an army family, and yet I cannot believe that it is with out interest; for the innumerable questions that are asked about our occupations, amusements, and mode of house keeping, lead me to hope that the actual answers to these queries contained in this little story will be acceptable. This must also be my apology for entering in some in stances so minutely into trifling perplexities and events, which went to fill up the sum of our existence. . B. C. Contenst include: Change of Station i II. A Blizzard 8 III. Western Hospitality 21 IV. Cavalry on the March 27 V. Camping Among the Sioux 39 VI. A Visit to the Village of Two Bears 50 VIL Adventures During the Last Days of the March 63 VIII. Separation and Reunion 76 IX. Our New Home at Fort Lincoln 84 X. Incidents of Every - day Life 94 XL The Burning of Our Quarters Carrying the Mail 105 XII. Perplexitiesand Pleasures of Domestic Life 1 14 XIII. A Strong Heart Dance! 121 XIV. Garrison Life 128 XV* General Ouster's Literary Work 139 XVI. Indian Depredations 144 XVII. A Day of Anxiety and Tenor 149 XVIIL Improvements at the Post, and Gardening 157 XIX. General Ouster's Library 164 XX. The Summer of the Black Hills Expedition 171 XXI. Domestic Trials 184 XXIL Capture and Escape of Rain-in-the-face 193 XXIII. Garrison Amusements 205 XXIV. An Indian Council 213 XXV. Breaking Up of the Missouri 2 1 7 XXVI. Curious Characters and Excursionists Among Us 228 XXVII. Religious Services Leave of Absence 234 XXVIII. A Winter's Journey Across the Plains 240 XXIX. Our Life's Last Chapter 248 APPENDIX: With Extracts of General Gutter's Letters 258 Fxl and Saddles. CHAPTER I: Change of Station. GENERAL CUSTER graduated at West Point just in time to take part in the battle of Bull Run. He served with his regiment the 5th Cavalry for a time, but even tually was appointed aide-de-camp to General McClellan. He came to his sister's home in my native town, Monroe, Michigan, during the winter of 1863, and there I first met him. In the spring he returned to the army in Virginia, and was promoted that summer, at the age of twenty-three, from captain to brigadier-general. During the following autumn he came to Monroe to recover from a flesh-wound, which, though not serious, disabled him somewhat. At that time we became engaged. When his twenty days' leave of absence had expired he went back to duty, and did not return until a few days before our marriage, in February, 1864. We had no sooner reached Washington on our wedding journey than telegrams came, following one another in quick succession, asking him to giveup the rest of his leave of absence, and hasten without an hour's delay to the front. I begged so hard not to be left behind that I finally prevailed. The result was that I found myself in a few hours on the extreme wing of the Army of the Potomac, in an isolated Virginia farm-house, finishing my
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