Winning the West: The Army in the Indian Wars, 1865-1890

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This paper covers the US Army's operations in the period following the Civil War. The writer shows that unlike previous struggles with the Indians, this time there was nowhere for the Indians to withdraw to and so battles took place for a period of 25 years between the white Army and the native Indians.

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"The reading begins by giving detail of both the setting and the challenge. Background to the conflict is given, where we see that the Army forces are not great in number, the military assets released from other tasks were lost through reductions in force instead of being diverted to frontier defense (301). We see that this war was not considered as a war like the Civil War had been by both congress and the population. Overall, there is a feeling that everyone has had enough of war, with there also being support for settling the conflict with the Indians without military means. Even so, the Army were called in to war with the Indians, though at much lower numbers and also with high rates of sickness and desertion (301). The distances which the Army covered also meant that it was organized into geographical segments. "

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