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West Point Education and Indian Fighting in the West
In the mid 1850s Fort Davis era officers largely trained at West Point but struggled against Indians. Utley notes Mahan’s war principles lacked guidance for frontier combat. A 1854 pursuit led by Captain John G. Walker and Lt. Eugene A. Carr ended with Carr wounded and Indians driven into the mountains, showing the book’s lessons did not always apply.
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Fort Davis National Historic Site
Fort Davis
West Point
Robert M. Utley
Dennis Hart Mahan
Utley
West
John G. Walker
Eugene A. Carr
Walker
Carr
Mellee