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A Hero to His Fighting Men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925

A Hero to His Fighting Men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925

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Hardcover

Military Biographies19th Century United States HistoryArmed Forces

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0873385942
ISBN13: 9780873385947
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Aug 6 1998
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.99
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

Nelson A. Miles began his military service as a volunteer officer in the Civil War. He later earned the appellation the idol of the Indian fighters and capped his controversial career by serving as Commanding General of the Army from 1895 to 1903.

Without the benefit of a college education, Miles attained the rank of major general of volunteers two months after his twenty-sixth birthday. At the close of the Civil War, he was Jefferson Davis's military jailer, then served with the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina. On the frontier, he won a series of victories against the Kiowa-Comanches, Sioux, Nez Perce, Bannocks, and Geronimo's band of Apaches. His skillful management of the Messiah outbreak of 1890 ended the Indian Wars. Miles also commanded the Army during the Spanish-American War and was involved in the late nineteenth-century Army reforms.

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