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Chargement... The Indian War of 1864par Eugene F. Ware
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ware called himself a rhymer, not a poet, and he was on the whole right. But he was a very clever rhymer, and sometimes he outdid himself. Ir was said of Coleridge that all the poems he wrote that were worth reading could be printed on five pages; but those five pages would have to be bound in gold. Something of the same is true of Ware. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
From Captain Eugene Fitch Ware's service in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry, an organization charged with keeping the overland routes open and free from Indian attack, came The Indian War of 1864, originally published in 1911, the year of his death. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)973.737History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Operations Campaign of 1864 concludedClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The book is set in 1864 and those of us who know our history may wonder this is an unusual year for such a military campaign - in 1864 the US Civil War raged on but this didn't stop the Union devoting considerable military resources to the "west". The story takes place in Nebraska and Colorado and around the Platte. The author was an adjutant which might be why the content seems so detailed even about the daily goings-on. Also, he was a man of his age, his feelings about the "savages" are hardly PC. He freely relishes the idea of killing them and other white ne'er do wells! The more I got into the book the more interesting it got and I feel I did learn a lot about the times and place and the hardships and hard to accept deviations the soldiers endured. The weather, flies, the almost unimaginable cold and the miles they rode in the weather are mind-boggling. In one patrol it was something like 360 miles in 11 days in temps of -20F!
Not for all but I found it consuming. ( )