Table of Contents
Preface 1
Part I The Making of a Soldier
1 An Immigrant Family 3
2 Boyhood in Ohio 6
3 Mexico 9
4 The Academy 16
Part II The Pacific Northwest
5 The Fourth U.S. Infantry 19
6 Fort Orford 23
7 Fort Steilacoom 29
8 Semiahmoo Bay 45
9 Tacobet 48
10 Tenas Puss 51
11 To Europe and Back 54
12 By Steamer to the Mullan Road 60
13 Fort Chehalis 65
Part III The Civil War
14 The Sixth U.S. Cavalry 69
15 The Peninsula 74
16 The Second Ohio Cavalry; Fort Scott, Camp Chase 85
17 Operating in Kentucky 91
18 Chasing Morgan 95
19 East Tennessee 106
20 The Cavalry Bureau 110
21 The Cavalry Division, Army of the James 114
22 Raiding Railroads in Virginia 118
23 The First Petersburg Assault 126
24 The Second Petersburg Assault 131
25 The Wilson-Kautz Raid 135
26 First Deep Bottom and the Beefsteak Raid 147
27 ChaSms Farm and Johnson's Farm 151
28 Through the Long Winter 157
29 The Company Clerk and Customs of Service 162
30 The Fall of Richmond 164
Part IV The Postwar Years
31 The Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators 167
32 Charlotte Tod 173
33 Reconstruction 176
34 From Old Mexico to New Mexico 182
35 Fort Stanton 186
36 Newport Barracks 190
37 Fannie Markbreit 194
38 From Fort Garland to Fort Whipple 200
39 The Department of Arizona 205
40 A Damper on the Party 213
41 The Most Important Court-Martial Since the War 216
42 Benicia Barracks 220
43 Angel Island 225
44 Fort Lowell 234
45 Fort Niobrara 240
46 Washington and New York 245
47 Vancouver Barracks 248
48 Retirement 251
Afterword 257
Chapter Notes 259
Bibliography 277
Index 281
