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The Indian War of 1864 by Captain Eugene F. Ware with an introduction and notes by Clyde C. Walton, originally printed in 1911, this is the second printing in 1960.
After the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, companies of the Seventh Cavalry were ordered west to fight the Indians between Omaha and the Rocky Mountains, and to counteract the tactical plan of the Confederacy aimed at inciting Indian uprisings to harass the Union. Eugene F. Ware was a volunteer cavalry officer of the Seventh Iowa. This book, an eyewitness account based on his daily journal and his letters, reveals the full scope of a fascinating and tragic contest between the white man and the Indian. Nowhere else is there such a vivid description of the frontier during the Civil War, and of the hard and dangerous role played by the soldier who was sent West rather than South.
Nothing escapes Ware--the scenery and landmarks, the weather, food, wild life, his fellow officers, the unspeakable habits of the Indian,the strange effeminacy of the Ponca Indians and the equally strange behavior of their women. He gives an unforgettable description of Dobytown where the toughest inhabitants of the frontier, men and women, came to frolic, and where the cemetery was bigger than the town. Throughout there is Ware s running struggle to discipline his unruly, hard-drinking men who, although brave fighters, were little more civilized than the Indians they had come West to subdue.
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