Download or read book The March of the Mounted Riflemen written by Raymond W. Settle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an awesome sight, that regiment of Mounted Riflemen slowly marching up the Oregon Trail, already crowded with gold seekers and their animals in 1849. In May of that year five companies of men and 171 supply wagons started from Fort Leavenworth on a five-month, two-thousand-mile march that would take them to Fort Vancouver. After distinguished service in the Mexican War, the rifle regiment had mustered out and then reorganized for the purpose of establishing and garrisoning forts along the Oregon Trail. The March of the Mounted Riflemen, first published in 1940, is important as the only complete record of one of the longest marches ever made. Most of the book is devoted to the journal of the quartermaster, Major Osborne Cross, which describes the experience of recruits unprepared for such an undertaking. There were numerous desertions among the soldiers and teamsters, who were faced with a cholera epidemic and the heavy loss of horses and mules in poor grazing country, but for those who finally crossed the Cascades there was pleasure in spectacular scenery and interest in dealing with friendly Indians. Included is the journal of George Gibbs, a civilian artist and naturalist who accompanied the marchers, and a report by Colonel William Wing Loring, the commanding officer Together, these primary documents offer valuable information about the Oregon Trail and the great emigration of 1849.
Download or read book The March of the Mounted Riflemen First United States Military Expedition to Travel the Full Length of the Oregon Trail from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver May to October 1849 as Recorded in the Journals of Major Osborne Cross and George Gibbs and the Official Report of Colonel Loring Edited by R W Settle With Plates Including a Portrait of Major Cross written by Raymond W. SETTLE and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon in 1849 written by Osborne Cross and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon in 1849 written by Osborne Cross and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon in 1849 written by Osborne Cross and published by Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mounted Riflemen A Lecture Etc Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (G.C.B., G.C.M.G.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report in the Form of a Journal to the Quartermaster General of the March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen from St Louis to Oregon May 10 Oct written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Report in the Form of a Journal to the Quartermaster General of the March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon from May 18 to October 5 1849 written by Osborne Cross and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confederate Cherokees written by W. Craig Gaines and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many Indian nations fought in the Civil War, historians have given little attention to the role Native Americans played in the conflict. Indian nations did, in fact, suffer a higher percentage of casualties than any Union or Confederate state, and the war almost destroyed the Cherokee Nation. In The Confederate Cherokees, W. Craig Gaines provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War, focusing in particular on the actions of one group, John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles.As the war began, The Cherokees were torn by internal political dissension and a simmering thirty-year-old blood feud. Entry into the war on the Confederate side did little to resolve these intratribal tensions. One faction, loyal to Chief John Ross, formed a regiment led by John Drew, Ross's nephew by marriage. Another regiment was formed by Ross's rival, Stand Watie. The Watie regiment was largely por-Confederate, whereas many of Drew's soldiers, though fighting for the Confederate cause, were secretly members of a pro-Union, antislavery society known as the Keetoowahs. They had little sympathy for the southern whites, who had driven them from their ancestral homelands in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Drew's regiment nonetheless earned a degree of infamy during the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, for scalping Union soldiers.Gaines writes not only about the actions of Drew's regiment but about military events in the Indian Territory in general. United action was almost impossible because of continuing factionalism within the tribes and the desertion of many Indians to the Union forces. Desertion was so high that Drew's regiment was effectively disbanded by mid-1862, and the soldiers did not complete their one-year enlistment. Drew's regiment bears the distinction of being the only Confederate regiment to lose almost its entire membership through desertion to the Union ranks.Gaines's solidly researched, ground-breaking history of this ill-fated band of Cherokees will be of interest to Civil War buffs and students of Native American history alike.
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Download or read book A Report in the Form of a Journal to the Quartermaster General of the March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon from May 10 to October 5 1849 written by Osborne Cross and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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