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General David Stanley in Texas headlines a frontier career
General David Stanley served forty two years in the army with much time in Texas. A West Point graduate of 1852 he joined surveys, fought in the Civil War, and led the Fourth Army Corps in Texas operations after the war. He recounts frontier battles, German loyalty to the Union, and later commands across the Midwest and West.
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Stanley
Texas
West Point
Phillip H. Sheridan
Pacific
Raihway
A. W. Whippie
Fort Smith
Ark
San Diego
California
Panhandle
Albuquerque
New Mexico
James Henry Carleton
Dragoons
Keneer Garrard
San Francisco
Calfornia
Panama
New York City
Sart Apoelo
George B Anderson
Sephomoeer
Mattock
Eben Swift
U. A
Eben Swift, Jr
80Th Division
Kansas
Nebraska
Fort Arbuckle
Indiana Territory
Earl van Doran
Cavalary
Wichita
Camp
Camp Verde
Fitzhugh Lee
Camp Radziminski
Indian Territory
Washita
Arbuckle
Cobb
Fort Leavenworth
4Th Texas Cavalry
Geenral
4Th Army
Maximilian of
Mexico
Maximilian
31St
India
Thomas Ellwood Rose
77Th Pennsylvania
Indianola
New Orleans
Green Lake
Victoria
San Antonio
Tennessee
Tieir
France
Italy
Kirby Smith
Fourth Army Corps
Helms
Duff
Nueces
Wirtz
John Twohig
General Madero
21St Illinois Infantry
Ulysses SS. Grant
22Nd Infantry
Fort Sully
D. 2
Yellowstone Country
Northern Pacific
Fort Wayne
Mich
Frontier Times