Williams, Ellen:

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THREE YEARS AND A HALF IN THE ARMY; OR, HISTORY OF THE SECOND COLORADOS. A personal account, privately printed, by the wife of a bugler about the Civil War campaigns on the Plains and in the Rockies, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, including a unit roster for the Second Colorado Cavalry Regiment on pages 161-176. About half of the men of the Second Colorado had been miners before the war, and the regiment included a single member each of the Choctaw and Cherokee nations. Mrs. Williams and her two young sons were ordered to remain in Santa Fe early in the war, and she describes the hardships of life there and the fears of Confederate attacks. In the Spring of 1863 they were relocated to Fort Lyons in southeastern Colorado. Much of the text is a detailed history of the actions of the Second Colorado in Missouri, Colorado, and elsewhere, giving an interesting view of the little-known southwestern campaigns of the Civil War. This copy lacks the frontispiece portrait of the author.

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