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The Late 19th Century U.S. Army, 1865-1898 A Research Guide
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Joseph G. III Dawson
Book Code: DWA/
ISBN: 0-313-26146-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-26146-6
272 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/24/1990
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
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Series Title: Research Guides in Military Studies
Series Number: 3
Reviews:
  • A strong addition to the existing military history reference literature and to its series (e.g., Marvin Fletcher's The Peacetime Army 1900-1941,). Dawson's research guide is more useful than a standard bibliography, and much more thorough for the time period covered than sources such as Jack C. Lane's America's Military Past and the noted Guide to the Sources of United States Military History, ed. by Robin Higham, and two supplements. Dawson builds his guide around more than 1,100 bibliographic entries, many of which have brief, descriptive annotations. The citations, arranged topically in eight chapters, are drawn from books, periodicals, and dissertations. A ninth chapter covers pertinent government documents and manuscript collections. Author and subject indexes and four useful appendixes are included. There is a fine introductory essay: the preface lists and briefly describes 50 top secondary sources selected from the larger body of literature. These features truly enhance the bibliographic core of the book and make it a guide useful to general readers, upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars.
    —Choice
  • Dawson's annotations are descriptive and critical, displaying a full grasp of a vast literature. This research guide is exactly what it should be: exceedingly useful. . . . This book nevertheless belongs in every major research library collection on frontier and military history, as well as in the personal libraries of all western military historians.
    —Montana the Magazine of Western History
Description: The period between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century was a time of hard choices for the U.S. Army and those who led it. The federal government thrust numerous responsibilities upon the military, including pacifying the Indians, patrolling the defeated Confederacy, suppressing striking laborers, and supervising national parks. This comprehensive bibliography focuses on this period of military history, cataloging, surveying, and appraising the substantial body of contemporary and historical literature that traces the evolution of the U.S. Army from 1865 to 1898. As the largest single-volume reference work of its type, the book covers all major aspects of Army activities, and contains annotations on 80 percent of its entries. Following a series foreword by Roger J. Spiller and a brief introduction, the volume begins with an extensive survey of government documents and manuscript collections. Included here is a wide variety of U.S. government publications pertaining to the Army, many from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Subsequent chapters group sources under bibliographic topics, such as general secondary works, fiction, and memoirs and contemporary accounts, as well as under subjects that refer to the Army's activities. These include the Army and Reconstruction, the Indian-fighting Army, forts and post life, the late 19th century Army, and coastal defense. A series of appendixes provides a period chronology, list commanding generals and secretaries of war, and chart army strength. A set of author and subject indexes conclude the work. The Late 19th Century U.S. Army will be an important addition to the collections of public and academic libraries, and a useful resource tool for courses in U.S. history and military history.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Roger J. Spiller
  • Preface: Selecting the Top Secondary Sources
  • Introduction
  • Government Documents and Manuscript Collections
  • General Secondary Works and References
  • The Army and Reconstruction
  • The Indian-Fighting Army
  • The Late 19th Century Army
  • Memoirs and Contemporary Accounts, Including Edited Letters and Diaries
  • Forts and Post Life
  • Coastal Defense
  • Selected Fiction
  • Appendix A: Chronology, 1865-1898
  • Appendix B: Commanding Generals of the U.S. Army, 1865-1898
  • Appendix C: Secretaries of War, 1865-1898
  • Appendix D: Army Strength, 1865-1898
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 90-41839
LCC Class: Z6725
Dewey Class: 016.355
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