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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate: a

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate: a

A. Miles, Nelson

Paperback

Biographies GeneralArchaeology20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 9353700663
ISBN13: 9789353700669
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 602
Weight: 3.03
Height: 1.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
From the smoke of the Civil War to the wide horizons of the Pacific, General Nelson A. Miles records what he saw, decided, and endured. Miles writes with hard-won clarity. From New England to the Golden Gate, his route charts a nation remaking itself. Personal Recollections and Observations is a military autobiography memoir that moves between a concise civil war general memoir and vivid frontier campaign recollections, tracing U.S. Army frontier service during the Indian Wars campaigns and the long push of western expansion and development. Written by a commanding figure of nineteenth century America, it captures the pressures of leadership, the realities of campaigning, and the contested making of the American West frontier, without the soft focus of later legend. He writes as soldier and organiser, attentive to orders from Washington as well as the lived detail of march, supply, and terrain. Miles also keeps an eye on the larger western empire: exploration, transport, settlement, and the practical work of holding distant ground. The result sits between personal testimony and national record, a military history reference and a primary source for researchers, while remaining engrossing for any reader who likes history told from the saddle. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic civil war memoir collection is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure - it offers an unabridged historical memoir worthy of both the serious Americana shelf and the casual evening read. For classic-literature collectors, it is a defining document of the period's military imagination.

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