Thrilling Days in Army Life

George A. Forsyth

ISBN 10: 0803268734 / ISBN 13: 9780803268739

Published by University of Nebraska Press, NE, 1994

About this Item

University of Nebraska Press, NE. A series of Cavalry stories told by a Civil War and Indian War veteran. Forsyth was part of the 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment for most of the Civil War. He also served as General Phil Sheridan's aide-de-camp. After the war he stayed in the Army and saw combat in the Indian Wars. The book is illustrated by Rufus Zogbaum. A reprint of the 1900 book. Very good copy of the soft bound book. 199 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thrilling Days in Army Life
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, NE
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803268734
• ISBN 13: 9780803268739
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Thrilling Days in Army Life describes one of the classic encounters between Indians and the frontier army. In the summer of 1868 George A. Forsyth led fifty scouts to search out Cheyennes who were raiding Kansas. In this book, he relates the six-day siege in september that pitted his small force against 750 Cheyennes and Sioux. Because the battle occurred in a dry bed of the Arickaree Fork of the Republican River in western Colorado and claimed the life of Forsyth's brave lieutenant, Frederick Beecher, it would be known to history as the Battle of Beecher Island.

Forsyth, who was breveted brigadier general for the 1868 battle, had an action-packed career. In 1882, as commander of the Fourth Cavalry in New Mexico, he pursued the Chiricahua Apaches across the border into Mexico. It was a raid full of dangerous traps, but he lived to tell about it.

Originally published in 1900, Thrilling Days in Army Life will be of interest to both frontier and Civil War buffs. Forsyth was an aid to Major General Philip H. Sheridan in 1864 and accompanied him on the dramatic ride to the rescue of Union troops at Cedar Creek. That episode is presented in a rush of detail. Forsyth ends with an eyewitness account of the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Court House. Of special interest to readers will be the many drawings by Rufus Zogbaum, a leading military artist of his day.

About the Author

Introducing this Bison Book edition of Thrilling Days in Army Life is David Dixon, an assistant professor of history at Slippery Rock University and the author of Hero of Beecher Island: The Life and Military Career of George A. Forsyth, also available from the University of Nebraska Press.