Indian war veterans

As an ex-WWII private first class, I applaud Greene’s editing of these memoirs. Greene shoots down the commonly-held belief that Indian War soldiers were mostly illiterate Irish and German immigrants. Most of these personal accounts were penned by enlisted men, rather than officers, and all the selections are well written. (Greene may have fine-tuned some of the soldiers’ prose, but his inserted corrections are few and far between.) The editor draws virtually all of the reminiscences from