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The Galvanized Yankees

The Galvanized Yankees

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 080326075X
ISBN13: 9780803260757
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Jun 1 1986
Pages: 255
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms.

From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. Dee Brown, the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

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