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Cargando... Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864por Paul N. Beck
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Although I thought that there was a lot of virtue in Pekka Hamalainen's study of the wider Lakota nation, it is to be admitted that it is not at its strongest when dealing with military matters. As such, Beck's study of the follow-up to the Sioux War of 1862, while a little dry, I found to be very informative. This is as Beck goes to some lengths not to treat the punitive expeditions as a sideshow to the greater war between Richmond and Washington, but as an integral component of larger strategic concerns. Though it's hard to avoid concluding that John Pope was looking for personal compensation for his military failures back east. Beck also works at giving the reader some insight to the perspective of the fighting men on the ground, between those Lakota/Dakota fighters trying to stave off the onrush of the White Man, those soldiers of Minnesota who wanted personal revenge, and other soldiers of the U.S. Army who, on the whole, would have preferred to have fought in what they considered the "real" war. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars--the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota--both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left hundreds of white settlers dead. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army's response to the Dakota War of 1862. Whereas previous accounts have approached the Punitive Expeditions as a military campaign of the Indian Wars, Beck argues that the expeditions were also an extension of the Civil War. The strategy and tactics reflected those of the war in the East, and Civil War operations directly affected planning and logistics in the West. Beck also examines the devastating impact the expeditions had on the various bands and tribes of the Sioux. Whites viewed the expeditions as punishment--"columns of vengeance" sent against those Dakotas who had started the war in 1862--yet the majority of the Sioux the army encountered had little or nothing to do with the earlier uprising in Minnesota. Rather than relying only on the official records of the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries, and personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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