[PDF] Proceedings Of The Board Of Officers Convened Under Special Orders No 120 Ago 1874 On Infantry Equipments And Materials And Supplies Necessary For Efficient Outfit Of Infantry Troops In Field And Garrison eBook

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806137902

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Building on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880:Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Douglas C. McChristian here presents a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms and equipment during the years 1880–1892. The volumes are set against the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaigns—a key period of transition in United States military history. In Volume 2, he focuses on weapons and other accouterments, recounting in detail the army’s quest to find a repeating rifle that would serve the needs of both cavalry and infantry across the plains. Drawing on extensive research in public and private collections throughout the United States and lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred color and black-and-white illustrations, these volumes will serve as invaluable references for collectors, curators, and students of militaria and of the frontier era.

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806137827

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Description of the development and evolution of Army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a pivotal decade of experimentation and against the backdrop of a highly influential military operation - the Indian campaigns in the West.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385420695

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806159022

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“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! 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 army on the western frontier. After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them. In actions involving American Indians between 1866 and 1891, 875 of these soldiers were killed, mainly in minor skirmishes, while many more died of disease, accident, or effects of the natural environment. What induced these men to enlist for five years and to embrace the grim prospect of combat is one of the enduring questions this book explores. Going well beyond Don Rickey Jr.’s classic work Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (1963), McChristian plumbs the regulars’ accounts for frank descriptions of their training to be soldiers; their daily routines, including what they ate, how they kept clean, and what they did for amusement; the reasons a disproportionate number occasionally deserted, while black soldiers did so only rarely; how the men prepared for field service; and how the majority who survived mustered out. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making.