William Harding Carter and the American Army: A Soldier's Story

by Ronald Glenn Machoian

In this first full-length biography of William Harding Carter, Ronald G. Machoian explores Carter's pivotal role in bringing the American military into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern professional force we know today.

Machoian follows Carter's career from his boyhood in Civil War Nashville, where he volunteered to carry Union dispatches, through his involvement in bitter campaigns against Apaches in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806137460
• ISBN13: 9780806137469
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"