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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Regular Army O!
    sub title: soldiering on the Western frontier, 1865-1891
  name:
    name part: McChristian, Douglas C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Utley, Robert M.
    name part: 1929-
    role:
      role term: author of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oku
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 762 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers, drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters and memoirs, to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving post-Civil War Army on the western frontier.
  table of contents: "Taking to soldiering": enlistment -- "We are kept pretty busy": life at the recruiting depot -- "Don't grieve after me": the journey west -- "Deployed as skirmishers": regiments and companies in the West -- Brain, bone, and sinew: officers and noncoms -- "It is just dragging out a miserable existence": forts and garrison routine -- "The bed bugs are too numerous for me to sleep": some material aspects of Army life -- "Offensive in every particular": medicine, hygiene, and sanitation -- "It is so lonesome out here": the domestic side of enlisted life -- "We have our little amusements": recreation and pastimes -- "The moral condition is very poor": the seamy side of enlisted life -- "There are a great many deserting from our regiment": the problem of desertion -- "I will see some real Wild-West life": preparing for -- Field service -- "More than I ever thought I could bear": life in the field -- "Our orders were to go after them": regulars and red men -- "The government pays you to get shot at": combat -- "Thank god I am done soldiering": enlistment's end -- Appendixes -- A. 1872 Army pay table -- B. Glossary of Army slang -- Selected regular Army ballads -- Enlisted soldiers whose personal accounts of -- Service were consulted for this book.
  note: Douglas C. McChristian ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Military life
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Frontier and pioneer life
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers' writings, American
  classification: F594 .M118 2017
  classification: 355.10978/09034
  identifier: 9780806156958
  identifier: 0806156953
  identifier: 2016039781
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161223
    record change date: 20170926115954.0
    record identifier: in00003852900