Stalwart Army Sweethearts

Wives and families accompanying their military husbands during wartime is nothing new in American history. Martha Washington spent winter encampment with her general husband during the American Revolution. The wives of frontier U.S. Army servicemen during the last half of the 19th century, however, not only endured the hardship and fear of losing their husbands in combat, but they and their children struggled with heat, cold, illness and a lack of suitable shelter and food, as well as attack