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02932aam a2200385 i 4500 001 44AF5E56475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 161223s2017 okua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2016039781 020 $a 0806156953 020 $a 9780806156958 035 $a (OCoLC)962017112 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d JOY $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a F594 M118 2017 100 1 $a McChristian, Douglas C., $e author. 245 10 $a Regular Army O! : $b soldiering on the Western frontier, 1865-1891 / $c Douglas C. McChristian ; foreword by Robert M. Utley. 264 1 $a Norman : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xix, 762 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "Taking to soldiering": enlistment -- "We are kept pretty busy": life at the recruiting depot -- "Don't grieve after me": the journey west -- "Deployed as skirmishers": regiments and companies in the West -- Brain, bone, and sinew: officers and noncoms -- "It is just dragging out a miserable existence": forts and garrison routine -- "The bed bugs are too numerous for me to sleep": some material aspects of Army life -- "Offensive in every particular": medicine, hygiene, and sanitation -- "It is so lonesome out here": the domestic side of enlisted life -- "We have our little amusements": recreation and pastimes -- "The moral condition is very poor": the seamy side of enlisted life -- "There are a great many deserting from our regiment": the problem of desertion -- "I will see some real Wild-West life": preparing for -- Field service -- "More than I ever thought I could bear": life in the field -- "Our orders were to go after them": regulars and red men -- "The government pays you to get shot at": combat -- "Thank god I am done soldiering": enlistment's end -- Appendixes -- A. 1872 Army pay table -- B. Glossary of Army slang -- Selected regular Army ballads -- Enlisted soldiers whose personal accounts of -- Service were consulted for this book. 520 $a "Uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers--drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs--to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving post-Civil War Army on the western frontier."--Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x History $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x History, Military $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Soldiers $z West (U.S.) $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Soldiers' writings, American. 700 1 $a Utley, Robert M., $d 1929- $e author of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20190618013247.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107013650.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=44AF5E56475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search