Life in Custer’s Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868 (Bison Book S) [Paperback] Utley, Robert Marshall; Barnitz, Albert and Barnitz, Jennie

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Albert and Jennie Barnitz “were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere. . . . Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining.”-Paul A. Hutton, Journal of American History. Editor Robert Utley’s books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
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“[Albert and Jennie Barnitz] were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere. . . . Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining.”—Paul A. Hutton,
Journal of American History
(Paul A. Hutton
Journal of American History)

“The reader will come to like Albert and Jennie Barnitz, whose letters trigger a time machine in which we come to know a good deal more about
Life in Custer’s Cavalry.”—
Montana
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Montana)

“Albert Barnitz. . .served with Custer’s famed Seventh Cavalry for four years, 1867-70. . . . In 1867 Albert and Jennie (Platt), both of Ohio, married and headed for the Kansas frontier. Four months later the growing perils of Indian clashes forced her to return east. . . . [Their] letters and diaries, dated from January 17, 1867, to February 10, 1869, are vivid and accurate. . . . [They] provide a keen picture of life in the Seventh Cavalry, both in garrison and field, immediately after the Civil War.”—
The Historian
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The Historian)
From the Back Cover
Through the study of the Barnitz Papers, the author writes a vivid description of frontier army life; of the attitudes of officers and their wives toward Indians, settlers, and themselves; and of particular characters and events in the story of Indian warfare in Kansas after the Civil War.
About the Author

Editor Robert Utley’s books available in Bison Books editions include
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life;
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and
Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.