Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman. Martha Summerhayes

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman - Martha Summerhayes


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       Martha Summerhayes

      Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664602848

       Preface

       VANISHED ARIZONA

       CHAPTER I. GERMANY AND THE ARMY

       CHAPTER II. I JOINED THE ARMY

       CHAPTER III. ARMY HOUSE-KEEPING

       CHAPTER IV. DOWN THE PACIFIC COAST

       CHAPTER V. THE SLUE

       CHAPTER VI. UP THE RIO COLORADO

       CHAPTER VII. THE MOJAVE DESERT

       CHAPTER VIII. LEARNING HOW TO SOLDIER

       CHAPTER IX. ACROSS THE MOGOLLONS

       CHAPTER X. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE

       CHAPTER XI. CAMP APACHE

       CHAPTER XII. LIFE AMONGST THE APACHES

       CHAPTER XIII. A NEW RECRUIT

       CHAPTER XIV. A MEMORABLE JOURNEY

       CHAPTER XV. FORDING THE LITTLE COLORADO

       CHAPTER XVI. STONEMAN'S LAKE

       CHAPTER XVII. THE COLORADO DESERT

       CHAPTER XVIII. EHRENBERG ON THE COLORADO

       CHAPTER XIX. SUMMER AT EHRENBERG

       CHAPTER XX. MY DELIVERER

       CHAPTER XXI. WINTER IN EHRENBERG

       CHAPTER XXII. RETURN TO THE STATES

       CHAPTER XXIII. BACK TO ARIZONA

       CHAPTER XXIV. UP THE VALLEY OF THE GILA

       CHAPTER XXV. OLD CAMP MACDOWELL

       CHAPTER XXVI. A SUDDEN ORDER

       CHAPTER XXVII. THE EIGHTH FOOT LEAVES ARIZONA

       CHAPTER XXVIII. CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

       CHAPTER XXIX. CHANGING STATION

       CHAPTER XXX. FORT NIOBRARA

       CHAPTER XXXI. SANTA FE

       CHAPTER XXXII. TEXAS

       CHAPTER XXXIII. DAVID'S ISLAND

       APPENDIX.

       NANTUCKET ISLAND, June 1910.

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      I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children.

      For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales they have so often heard, they always say: "Now, mother, will you write these stories for us? Please, mother, do; we must never forget them."

      Then, after an interval, "Mother, have you written those stories of Arizona yet?" until finally, with the aid of some old letters written from those very places (the letters having been preserved, with other papers of mine, by an uncle in New England long since dead), I have been able to give a fairly connected story.

      I have not attempted to commemorate my husband's brave career in the Civil War, as I was not married until some years after the close of that war, nor to describe the many Indian campaigns in which he took part, nor to write about the achievements of the old Eighth Infantry. I leave all that to the historian. I have given simply the impressions made upon the mind of a young New England woman who left her comfortable home in the early seventies, to follow a second lieutenant into the wildest encampments of the American army.

      Hoping the story may possess some interest for the younger women of the army, and possibly for some of our old friends, both in the army and in civil life, I venture to send it forth.

      POSTCRIPT (second edition).

      The appendix to this, the second edition of my book, will tell something of the kind manner in which the first edition was received by my friends and the public at large.

      But as several people had expressed a wish that I should tell more of my army experiences I have gone carefully over the entire book, adding some detail and a few incidents which had come to my mind later.

      I have also been able, with some difficulty


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