Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890. Volume three, Conquering the Southern Plains

Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Volume III: Conquering the Southern Plains offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the struggle for the Southern Plains and Texas as may be gathered under one cover. It contains accounts from such notable military participants as George Armstrong Custer, Nelson A. Miles, Wesley Merritt, and Frederick W. Benteen. Peter Cozzens is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and the author of eight acclaimed books on the Civil War and Western history, including the trilogy The Civil War in the West and General John Pope: A Life for the Nation. "Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, this series of five volumes will the most comprehensive work on the military aspects of the Indian Wars in the West. The author will gather a wide variety of first-person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts and contemporaneous newspaper articles. Each article covering an event or battle will be placed within its context, with background information on the author of the article, a historical introduction evaluating the article's accuracy and significance, and a "for further reading" list of sources."--Amazon.com viewed Dec. 8, 2020 v. 1. The struggle for Apacheria v. 2. The wars for the Pacific Northwest v. 3. Conquering the Southern Plains v. 4. The long war for the Northern Plains v. 5. The army and the Indian. D. A. Butterfield, Superintendent Overland Dispatch: SIR.