Did frontier soldiers go through boot camp?
Bill Haines
Nashville, Tennessee
Jefferson Barracks, south of St. Louis, Missouri, was established July 10, 1826. It was the first Infantry School of Instruction or basic training under Brev. Maj. Stephen Watts Kearny. Col. Henry Leavenworth arrived a few months later. For the first time in the nation’s young history, recruits received training in close order drill, tactics, marksmanship and weapons of every type.
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True West May 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Cowan’s Auction
- How Accurate was the Language in the 2010 Version of True Grit?
- Shaken, Stirred and Strong
- What History Has Taught Me: Howard Terpning
- Did Ballistics Forensics Ever Come into Play in Solving Crimes in the Old West?
- Was Doc Holliday Really a Deadly Dentist?
- The Diné Return to the Four Corners
- Seminole Scouts
- Battle of Rosebud
- Did Frontier Soldiers go through Boot Camp?
- The Militancy of the Miners