The Galvanized Yankees

The Galvanized Yankees - Paperback

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The Galvanized Yankees - Paperback

The Galvanized Yankees - Paperback

by Dee Brown
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by Dee Brown (Author)

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms.

From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. Dee Brown, the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

Number of Pages: 255
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.55 x 5.57 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: June 01, 1986
ISBN9780803260757
Author Dee Brown
PublisherBison Books
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 1986
LanguageENG- English
Pages255
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Dee Brown

Dee Brown was the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War. His Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, considered a classic in its field, was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, and has been translated into many languages. Dee Brown died in 2002. Hampton Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and the author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and, most recently, In the Kingdom of Ice.

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