Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars - Don Rickey - Don Rickey

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The Enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
Whether the Soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns..
Many of them who had survived to the mid-1950\'s contributed much more through additional correspondence and personal interviews.
To find out what the average Soldier of the post-Civil War frontier thought, Don Rickey, Jr., asked over three hundred living veterans to supply information about their army experiences by answering questionnaires and writing personal accounts.
Because few Enlisted men were literarily inclined, many barely able to scribble their names, most previous writings about them have been what officers and others had to say.
They arrayed their army between themselves and the Indians, paid its soldiers their pittance, and went about the business of mushrooming the nation\'s economy.
The people were tired of the military and its connotations after four years of civil war.
The rank and file regular, then as now, was psychologically as well as physically isolated from most of his fellow Americans.
We should know more about the common Soldier in our military past, and here he is.
As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and endurance, created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible.
The Enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers