Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...e system of reasoning, rewarded the bravery and devotion of our regular troops by assuming that their deeds of arms against savages in revolt should not be ranked among acts of warfare deserving of national recognition! It is some satisfaction, even at this late day, to know that the national legislature no longer looks upon services rendered by the troops against hostile savages with contemptuous eyes, and that the bill granting brevet rank to the more distinguished among the Indian fighters of the regular army, has now become a law. If these frankly-written pages serve to place before the Congress and the people of the United States the deeds and the sufferings of the national army while struggling in several most important campaigns for the extension of our peliceful borders, the safety of our hardy pioneers and the honor of our martial name, I will feel greatly recompensed ffv the labor of their production. The gallant service in which Harney, Fremont, Sully. Stanley, Connors, Crook, Miles, Merritt, Terry, Mckenzic, Gibbon, Carr and other heroic chiefs distinguished themselves against the intrepid hostile Indians, and in which Custer, Canby, Fettennan, Kidder, Elliot, Brown, Grum-mond, Yates, Mclntosh, Calhoun, Keogh, Mckinney, and many more as brave as they were, died fighting against overwhelming numbers, deserves honor at the hands of the nation, whose glory it has maintained and whose progress it has insured. Whether as regulars or volunteers, our soldiers, at all times and under all circumstances, have deserved well of their country. From the day of Concord bridge, when the citizen-soldiery of Massachusetts " fired the shot heard round the world," to that of the Little Big Horn, when Custer, at the head of his three...