【生活常识教科书】Vanished_Arizona(消失的亚利桑娜).pdfVIP

更多好书请点击 Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman Vanished Arizona Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman Martha Summerhayes 1 更多好书请点击 Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 2 更多好书请点击 Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman Preface I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children. For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales they have so often heard, they always say: Now, mother, will you write these stories for us? Please, mother, do; we must never forget them. Then, after an interval, Mother, have you written those stories of Arizona yet? until finally, with the aid of some old letters written from those very places (the letters having been preserved, with other papers of mine, by an uncle in New England long since dead), I have been able to give a fairly connected story. I have not attempted to commemorate my husbands brave career in the Civil War, as I was not married until some years after the close of that war, nor to describe the many Indian campaigns in which he took part, nor to write about the achievements of the old Eighth Infantry. I leave all that to the historian. I have given simply the impressions made upon the mind of a young New England woman who left her comfortable home in the early seventies, to follow a second lieutenant into the wildest encam