Cavalry life in tent and field

Whether or not these personal reminiscences will interest the public remains to be determined; for one thing the narrator can vouch, and that is they are not in the least exagge...

When courage to look around had at last been mustered, I found that my new home was formed of two wall tents pitched together so the inner one could be used as a sleeping and th...

Meantime much had happened to make that year an eventful one. My expectation of finding the new, untried world into which I was ushered a place where all were ready to meet me w...

My husband’s first duty was to report to the commanding general, who gave him permission to remain there for two months, promising to place him on duty in order that he might re...

The time-honored “babes in the woods” could not have started on their pilgrimage with more childlike simplicity than did my husband and myself. The first five days, through the...

Fort Mojave, at that time a mere collection of adobe buildings with no special pretensions to comfort, stood on the eastern bank of the Colorado River. It seemed to me, except f...

Only two days were left in which to reach our destination. The remainder of the road was level, and no further danger from Indians need be apprehended. Our next encampment was a...

As an illustration of the many delays consequent upon frontier travel may be mentioned the receipt, just before leaving for New Mexico, of a box that had been fourteen months _e...

Our little daughter was just eleven months old when the regiment was ordered to move. We started on our long journey in mid-winter. The troops from Prescott were to cross direct...

At that point we parted with our four guests, who had contributed, by their fund of wit and humor, to render the journey pleasant, and had added much to our merriment at meal ti...

At Fort Stanton nature was a constant source of joy and pleasure. The nearby streams were fairly alive with delicious fish, so abundant that a line could hardly be thrown before...

We left Fort Stanton in March, prepared for a seemingly almost interminable journey before reaching the railroad at Denver, five hundred miles distant. Expecting to find houses...

I doubt if any but those who have lived among the prairies or mountains of the far West can realize how keenly is felt the loss of that endless environment which becomes a part...

We were always delighted to welcome back the troops from their Indian reconnoitering, life was so dull without them. During their absence the garrison would consist perhaps of o...

Fort Bayard, surrounded by high mountains, is pleasantly situated in a very hilly region. The officers’ quarters face the Santa Rita Mountains, which rise to an abrupt point dir...

I have always thought army life would be delightful if there was the slightest certainty of remaining at any post for a given length of time; but this is so out of the question...

I have not very often referred in this volume to the character of my husband, for in my opinion it needs no vindication. Mr. Boyd always left in the minds of every one with whom...

It took our first colored cook, a huge, strapping creature, who seemed a very giant in strength and stature, three days to scrub our tiny kitchen floor; and his ideas, one of wh...

That unpleasant features were there is not, however, to be denied; and as my aim is to present both the lights and shadows of army life, I will now describe a few of the latter.

It was customary for companies of Mr. Boyd’s regiment to be sent for six months to garrison the forts on the Rio Grande, which were close by; our turn came when we had been two...

Exactly ten years from the day we had left New York I returned. My heart was so bound up in frontier life I had hoped until the last moment that the spring rains, which had been...