
My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre
With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"
- 316 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre
With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"
About this book
Frances traveled with her first husband, Lt. George Washington Grummond, to Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming in 1866 where he was killed in the Fetterman incident just a few months later. She eventually married the post commander, Col. Henry B. Carrington, after the death of his first wife, Margaret, who had befriended and cared for Frances during her brief, tragic episode at the frontier post.
Frances’s narrative recalls the wonder and worries of a naive young bride during the fateful days of 1866. From her voyage to Wyoming to her encounters with unfamiliar peoples and strange landscapes, Frances’s vivid prose examines not only the everyday workings of a frontier army post but also the political and social intrigue behind one of the most controversial military defeats in Western history.
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Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- INTRODUCTION
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS
- PART I. OUTWARD BOUND. FROM GOVERNOR’S ISLAND TO FORT PHIL. KEARNEY, DAKOTA.
- PART II. OUR FRONTIER HOME. GARRISON LIFE ENCIRCLED BY SAVAGE LIFE.
- PART III. HOMEWARD BOUND. FROM FORT PHIL. KEARNEY, DAKOTA, TO TENNESSEE.
- PART IV. AFTER MANY DAYS. THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE.