The Galvanized Yankees

Brown, Dee

ISBN 10: 080326075X / ISBN 13: 9780803260757

Verlag: Bison Books, 1986

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 080326075X-3-33215656

Inhaltsangabe:

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms.

From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. Dee Brown, the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Galvanized Yankees
Verlag: Bison Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good