Research Catalog

Title

The Second Colorado Cavalry : a Civil War regiment on the Great Plains / Christopher M. Rein.

Author

Rein, Christopher M.,

Publication

• Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"An in-depth history of the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment who played a vital and often decisive role during the Civil War in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains -- and in the westward expansion of the American empire"--

Series Statement

Campaigns and commanders ; volume 69

Uniform Title

Campaigns and commanders ; v. 69.

Subject

• 1860-1890
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• Colorado > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Colorado
• Great Plains
• Indians of North America > Wars > Great Plains
• Indians of North America > Wars
• Military campaigns
• Military operations, Cavalry
• Regimental histories
• Territorial expansion
• United States > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Cavalry operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Territorial expansion
• United States
• United States. Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865)
• United States. Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865) > History
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
• West United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index.

Contents

Colorado, 1861 : immigration, secession, and enlistment -- New Mexico, 1862 : the death of the Confederate empire -- Indian Territory, 1863 : triracial warfare in the borderlands -- Missouri, 1864 : hybrid warfare on the frontier -- Kansas, 1865 : pacifying the Plains.

ISBN

• 9780806164816
• 0806164816

LCCN

2019030117

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library