Title: Following the drum : a glimpse of frontier life /
Authors: Vielé, Teresa Griffin, 1831 or 1832-1906.; Myres, Sandra L.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Vielé, Teresa Griffin,; United States. Military life.; Frontier and pioneer life Texas; Officers' spouses Texas Biography.; Texas Description and travel; Texas Biography
Contents: Foreword / Sandra L. Myers -- Enlisting -- Recruiting -- Burlington -- Orders -- The tropics -- Havana -- New Orleans -- First glimpse of Texas -- Galveston, Texas -- Brazos St. Jago -- Fort Brown -- The Rio del Norte -- Ringgold barracks -- Davis's Ranche -- Frontier piety, etc. -- "The army" -- Camargo -- Filibustering -- Los Indios -- Camp life -- Texas--past, present, and future -- The last tap of the drum -- Army wives in the Trans-Mississippi West : a bibliography / Sandra L. Myers.