Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War: Or, From New England to the Golden Gate, and the Story of His Indian Campaigns, with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western EmpireThis work contains the personal reflections of Nelson A. Miles and focuses on his career as an American military general who served in the American Civil War, the American Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. |
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... taken up with the cares of exacting official duties and responsibilities . In this I have had the earnest assistance of Mr. N. E. Dawson , and for his faithful and zealous labor I desire to express my appreciation . If this narrative ...
... taken up with the cares of exacting official duties and responsibilities . In this I have had the earnest assistance of Mr. N. E. Dawson , and for his faithful and zealous labor I desire to express my appreciation . If this narrative ...
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... Taken to Washington - Presented to the Presi- dent - Tour Through the North- Return to Iowa and Meeting with Keokuk - Death of Black Hawk . The Wild Horse - CHAPTER VIII . GAME IN THE GREAT WEST . - Methods of Taking the Wild Horse ...
... Taken to Washington - Presented to the Presi- dent - Tour Through the North- Return to Iowa and Meeting with Keokuk - Death of Black Hawk . The Wild Horse - CHAPTER VIII . GAME IN THE GREAT WEST . - Methods of Taking the Wild Horse ...
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... Taken by the Government - The Action of States - Cost - Reasons for Further Government Action . 545-557 CHAPTER XLIII . TRANSPORTATION . The Unbridged Space Between the East and the West - Early Railroads -Early Railroads of the United ...
... Taken by the Government - The Action of States - Cost - Reasons for Further Government Action . 545-557 CHAPTER XLIII . TRANSPORTATION . The Unbridged Space Between the East and the West - Early Railroads -Early Railroads of the United ...
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... taken possession of this country , but also of its original occupants . I shall have occasion to remark later in these pages , that the customs and governments of the aborigines were purely democratic . The voice , ( 17 ) M - 2 the ...
... taken possession of this country , but also of its original occupants . I shall have occasion to remark later in these pages , that the customs and governments of the aborigines were purely democratic . The voice , ( 17 ) M - 2 the ...
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... taken as unwarranted and harsh in the extreme . I , therefore , began my military service as a captain reduced to a first lieutenant , in the Twenty - second LIEUTENANT MILES . Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers , organized and first ...
... taken as unwarranted and harsh in the extreme . I , therefore , began my military service as a captain reduced to a first lieutenant , in the Twenty - second LIEUTENANT MILES . Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers , organized and first ...
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