"In 1877, John Bigelow Jr. and seventy-five other cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after which he chronicled hi

Details the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion

Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post–Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were fo

"A collection of letters that Private Edward L. Matthews wrote from 1869 to 1874 to his family back home in Massachusetts, detailing his life at Fort Bascom and

The role of the Frontier scout in the US Army during the period of westward expansion, was often far more important than that of the commanding officer. They po