"The Second Colorado Cavalry: A Civil War Regiment" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Mar 2020 4:18 p.m. PST |
… on the Great Plains "During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein's The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose '59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion…"
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Amicalement Armand
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Wackmole9 | 13 Mar 2020 6:22 p.m. PST |
A good read and a excellent book on a fine unit in the acw. |
Tango01 | 14 Mar 2020 12:07 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
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