Against the Grain : Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army /

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Henry Martyn Lazelle (1832-1917) was the only cadet in the history of the US Military Academy to be suspended and sent back a year (for poor grades and bad behavior) and eventually return as Commandant of the Corps of Cadets. After graduating from West Point in 1855, he scouted with Kit Carson, was...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carson, James O., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:North Texas military biography and memoir series ; no. 9.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lazelle, H. M. > (Henry Martyn), > 1832-1917.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of maps
  • A five-year man
  • Operations against the Apaches
  • From prisoner of war to prisoner exchange agent
  • Defending Washington
  • The pride of Mecklenburg County
  • Indian Territory
  • West Point: a new battleground
  • A new challenge: General Howard takes command
  • First to purgatory, then to India
  • Back to Washington and controversy
  • Fort Clark, the 18th Infantry and retirement
  • A lost soul.

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