Review of Campaigning with King

Authors

• Joseph G. Dawson III, Texas A&M University

Date of this Version

1992

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:4 (Fall 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

For half a century the name of Charles King meant entertaining fiction about the institution that he knew and revered-the United States Army. King was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 1866), a professional soldier, and veteran of the Civil War, Reconstruction duty in the South, the Indian Wars, National Guard assignments, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine campaign. His writings revealed much about the life of soldiers and officers during the late nineteenth century.