The Galvanized Yankees - Softcover

Brown, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080326075X ISBN 13: 9780803260757

Publisher: Bison Books, 1986

Synopsis

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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Review:

"The Galvanized Yankees is an accurate, interesting, and sometimes thrilling account of an unusual group of men who rendered a valuable service to the nation in a time of great need. It is also a fresh and informative study of the Old West in transition from frontier to stable society."—Bell I. Wiley, New York Times Book Review (Bell I. Wiley New York Times Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 080326075X
• ISBN 13: 9780803260757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255