Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier

by James R. Arnold

Book Overview

Excitingly told and meticulously researched, this is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to face each other across... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471333646
• ISBN13: 9780471333647
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Birth of U.S. Calvary or What R.E. Lee was doing in 1850s

Arnold has a gift for military history that while informative of facts is also a good read. He makes history interesting even to the casual reader. This book fills what is usually a gap in US military history and a blank in most accounts of R.E. Lees life. Who knew that Lee was an Indian fighter as well as hero of the Mexican American war and great American strategist. His account of Lee's personnel hand to hand fight with an Apache warrior reveals his personnel determination, courage, and humor is an insightful read. This is the second of many American military experience with insurgent, unconventional, gorilla warfare, others being the Seminole war in Florida, for that fact all the Indian wars, the War in the Philippines {part of the Spanish American war} Vietnam war, and now Iraq/Afghanistan. We win as long as we have the political will to do so. Enough of that. This is a really good book, I highly recommend it. A lot of info for a little known period in American Military History.