Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on Army posts in the American West, serving in California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas.
This selection of Lauderdale\'s writings, edited and annotated by a premier historian of the American West, offers an insightful account of Army life that will.
Throughout his career he kept a detailed journal and sent long Letters home to his sister in upstate New York.
Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on Army posts in the American West, serving in California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas