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 Empire, Volume 1Theodore Roosevelt called him "a brave peacock." Pompous, vainglorious, but extremely capable, General Nelson A. Miles served his country with distinction for forty-two years. During the Civil War he fought in almost every important battle of the Army of the Potomac, and by its end had been promoted to the rank of major general of volunteers. In 1869 Miles was transferred to the West, where he achieved his greatest fame fighting against the Sioux, Cheyennes, Apaches, and Nez Perces. These colorful memoirs, filled with historical figures and illustrated by Frederic Remington, were first published in 1897, near the end of his career. Volume 1 takes up Miles's early years in the East, his Civil War action, and his campaigns against the Indians on the plains, ending with chapters on the battle at the Little Bighorn and the surrender of Sitting Bull. Volume 2 shifts to the Northwest and Miles's role in the Indian wars there. |
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... army of the nation should not be risked upon the point of a peninsula with an army intrenched in its front , its base surrounded by water and guarded by only that little Monitor . This vessel had been furnished by the genius of Ericsson ...
... army of the nation should not be risked upon the point of a peninsula with an army intrenched in its front , its base surrounded by water and guarded by only that little Monitor . This vessel had been furnished by the genius of Ericsson ...
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... Army of the Potomac under Major - General George G. Meade over Lee's exultant army at Gettys- burg . Later I was able to return to the Second Army Corps and take part in the campaign of the autumn of 1863 , and the terrible cam- paign ...
... Army of the Potomac under Major - General George G. Meade over Lee's exultant army at Gettys- burg . Later I was able to return to the Second Army Corps and take part in the campaign of the autumn of 1863 , and the terrible cam- paign ...
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... Army Corps was unprecedented in that war . Its aggregate wounded and killed in battle exceeded in number that of any other corps . The greatest aggregate of killed and wounded in any division of the army was in the First Division of ...
... Army Corps was unprecedented in that war . Its aggregate wounded and killed in battle exceeded in number that of any other corps . The greatest aggregate of killed and wounded in any division of the army was in the First Division of ...
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