Ballard, Jack S.

Commander and builder of western forts the life and times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901 / [electronic resource] : Jack Stokes Ballard. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012. - xi, 252 p. : ports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medal of Honor -- Civil War experience -- Department of the Gulf: command of Black troops -- Post-Civil War: the occupation army -- On to the Rio Grande -- A new wife and troubles on the Rio Grande -- To the Pacific Northwest -- Fort Laramie -- Fort Logan, Colorado -- Department of the Columbia: Vancouver Barracks and Alaska -- The Spanish-American War -- Department of the Colorado and the Idaho mining riots -- Toward retirement -- Who was Maj. Gen. Henry C. Merriam?.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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9781603442602 (cloth : alk. paper) 160344260X (cloth : alk. paper) 9781603446334 (e-book)




Merriam, Henry C. 1837-1912.


United States. Army --Officers--Biography.
United States. Army --Military life--History--19th century.
United States. Army --African American troops--History--19th century.


Medal of Honor--Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Military bases--History--West (U.S.)--19th century.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
West (U.S.)--Biography.


Electronic books.

F594.M525 / B35 2012eb

978/.02092 B