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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael L Tate |
| ISBN: | 9780313332128 0313332126 |
| OCLC Number: | 77522791 |
| Description: | xvii, 204 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Overview : reshaping the U.S. Army after the Civil War -- From glory to ambiguity : recruitment of a peacetime army -- New duties : from Reconstruction South to Old West -- Armed laborers : building and maintaining a network of posts -- The regimental family : patronage, power, and social dynamics -- Off duty, on post : the search for recreation and entertainment -- Many missions : a multipurpose army on the frontier -- "Tigers of the human species" : military views of the American Indian -- Black regulars : racial realities in a white man's army -- Twilight of the old army. |
| Series Title: | The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series; American soldiers' lives |
| Responsibility: | Michael L. Tate. |
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