Format:
Book
Title:
Commander and builder of western forts : the life and times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901 / Jack Stokes Ballard.
Author:
Ballard, Jack S.
Call Number:
978.02092 MERRIAM
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2012.
Description:
xi, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Merriam, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1837-1912.
Contents:
Medal of Honor -- Civil War experience -- Department of the Gulf: command of Black troops -- Post-Civil War: the occupation army -- On to the Rio Grande -- A new wife and troubles on the Rio Grande -- To the Pacific Northwest -- Fort Laramie -- Fort Logan, Colorado -- Department of the Columbia: Vancouver Barracks and Alaska -- The Spanish-American War -- Department of the Colorado and the Idaho mining riots -- Toward retirement -- Who was Maj. Gen. Henry C. Merriam?.
ISBN:
9781603442602 (cloth : alk. paper)
160344260X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603446334 (e-book)
1603446338 (e-book)