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03674aam a2200481 i 4500 001 57725FE27CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 008 200625t20202020gauab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2020027727 020 $a 0881467642 020 $a 9780881467642 035 $a (OCoLC)1157434358 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a UA29 3d $b .B73 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Bragg, William Harris, $e author. 245 13 $a An Officer of the Old Guard : $b Lewis Stevenson Craig 1807-1852 / $c Willilam Harris Bragg. 246 30 $a Lewis Stevenson Craig 1807-1852 264 1 $a Macon, Georgia : $b Mercer University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiii, 295 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a From the Old Dominion -- To the Floridas -- To the Sierra Madre Mountains -- To the Valley of Mexico -- To the Pacific. 520 $a "From battling Seminole in Florida's swamps to storming through Old Mexico's deserts and mountains, Lewis Stevenson Craig served as an exemplar of the U.S. Army's burgeoning professional officer corps. An early officer to make the army a career, Craig was to die with his boots on, commanding the military escort of John Russell Bartlett's U.S.-Mexican Boundary Commission. Ironically, Craig was meant for a Virginia planter's life supported by a generous legacy from his father, but Craig's older brothers and a faithless guardian robbed him of his inheritance and plunged him into years-long court battles. For Craig, family love and concern had died with his short-lived older sister, Jane Craig Stanard, now famous as Edgar Allan Poe's "Helen." Early in the Florida War, as a Dragoons lieutenant by appointment, Craig soon distinguished himself. At war's end, now an officer of the Third Infantry Regiment, he met the love of his life, Elizabeth Church. Soon she became Craig's wife and bore their only child at Fort Jesup on the western frontier. By the end of the Mexican War, where his regiment became known as "The Old Guard," Craig's fearlessness and valor had brought him promotion to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel. Soon, with the help of his military patron, General Winfield Scott, Craig embarked into the land of the Apaches on his last adventure. As presented in this book, Craig's story is told, unspoiled by present-mindedness, through deep research into the original sources: Virginia family papers and court files, U.S. military records, and Craig's own letters and journals, most from a heretofore untouched family archive"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Infantry Regiment, 3rd $b Infantry Regiment, 3rd $v Biography. 600 10 $a Craig, Lewis Stevenson, $d 1807-1852. 600 10 $a Craig, Lewis Stevenson, $d 1807-1852 $v Diaries. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Officers $v Biography. 610 17 $a United States. $b Army $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 610 17 $a United States. $b Infantry Regiment, 3rd $b Infantry Regiment, 3rd $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00651825 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Armed Forces $x Officers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814617 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423794 655 7 $a Military history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411630 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020400.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57725FE27CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search