Excerpt from Journal of Army Life, 1874
Although the following extracts from my private journal arc confined mostly to personal details of nine years service in the Military Department of the Government, at a period when there were no conflicts excepting with the Indians, still, they may interest a few readers who are curious to learn something of Garrison life on the border; and of Oregon and Washington Territorial Indian wars from 1855 to 1858.
They may also serve to enlighten such persons as are ignorant of the privations and occasional hardships endured by military men in the intervening periods of great wars; and others, who imagine that the army, as a peace establishment, is only an expensive luxury, kept up for display.
These people do not seem to be aware that even during the most profound national quietude, the troops are divided up into small detachments and garrisons, to stand guard on our extensive frontier, with the red men of the forest on the one side, and the pioneer settlers on the other; and that through their constant vigilance many bloody strifes between these ever-conflicting classes are prevented.
In regard to the Washington and Oregon Territorial Indian wars, it will be observed that details are given of the campaign only in which I had some actual knowledge and experience; although general reference is made to many other engagements with the Indians by the regulars and volunteers.
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