The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-25
Among the Books !.
suArmy Life on the plntnr.

BY Frances c. Darlington. j. 3.
Lippincott, OF Philadelphia $500 net.
This book enbodies the army life
experiences OF Mrs. Darlington, de-
scribes the Fort Phil Kearney mas
sacre, and gives an account Of the
celebration OF wyoming Opened"
The text is richly illustrated with
maps and photographs.
Mrs. CarrIngton's experiences begin
shortly after her marriage to Lett
tenant George w. cirummond, of the
Eighteenth United States infantry, un-
y der the command Of Colonel Henry b.
Darlington. who had been ordered
with his soldiers to the plains. The
outward Journey Of Mrs. Grummond
as a bride has Governors Island. New
York. as a starting point. Thence
her route lea by way OF vicksburg.
Fort Leavenworth and Fort McPher.
son, Forts Sedgwick, Laramie and
Reno are among her stopping places
before garrison life begins at Fort
Phil Kearney, where domesticties and
new friendships are oyershadowed by
the continual menace Of the savage
life encirciing the fort, and ready to
take advantage OF the least unwari-
ness on the part Of It's indwellers.
The stockade and blockhouse OF the
fort are completed before the fight
VI josttIlUtT loto, 10 DC SWlLtty iol'
lowed by the dreadful massacre OF De-
cember 21 in which Mrs. Grulnmond's
husband Is among the slain After
ward the arrival OF reinforcements
herald her departure from tho fort
and her return to her family In Ten
nessee. by wav Of Forts Reno. Casper.
Laramie and Mcpherson. to Omaha.
The end OF the journey Is reached In
March OF 1867.
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To description OF how Sheridan City
celebrates wyoming Opened" and of
return of the author to the seene OF
her early married life, the old fort
and it's neighborIng Massacre Hill.
The narration OF facts cleaned by
personal observation Is Frightened by
incidents of travel when travelling was
far more arduous than IT is now, and
Mrs Grummond had the unique e1-
perience of being the only woman pas
aenger on the first passenger train
T. over the newly laid track of the Union
Pacific. nearly ono hundred miles west
from Omaha Many anecdotes OF
early and celebrated Rocky Mountain
characters are interjected to relieve
the tedium and monotonY OF ambu-
lance train life from one camp station
to another, with the narrowing dread
of hostile Indians always <doggtng
every step of the way.
Life at Fort Laramie in a "dobey
house" rendered attractive only by
the ingenuity and resourceiulness az
woman adapting herself to army life
needs and requirements, Is succeeded
by descriptions OF the scenery on the
route 10 Fort Reno. along which
cactus arrows prove the only realistic
Crazy Wornan's Fork, OF the Powder
River country, are related. and the
story OF desperate fight between a
detachment of United States soldiers
and the Indians at this point on July
90 1866. Is here told for the first time.
In the words OF S S. Peters. Of Omaha.
who participated in the fight and
writes his account OF Il for Mrs Car
rington
The sociaIities Of garrison life a.
Fort Phil Kearney are mentioned with
an anprec!ativeness of tone that proves
the merit of the philosophy mailing
an army officers wife to extract all
OF enjoyment that the passing nour
affords. SO. a ceremonial attendant
upon the flag-raIsing al Fort Phil
Kearney, by william Daley. nlls
an interesting chapter. Another IN
regard to Guide James Bridger and
his duties is illustrated by a picture
In which the kind, shrewd face of the
old man. picturesquely set off by his
woodsmans attire. looks out from the
page before the eyes OF the reader.
The tragic record of the massacre
OF December 81. 1866 Is written with
a drcctness and force that enables
American women in tho East TO rea!izs
what those must suffer In frontier
Earrisons during Indian disturbances
and uprisings. The ride Of the volun-
teer messenger. John Phillips. from
Fort Phil Kearney TO Fort Laramie.
bearing dispatches to Washington and
Omaha, is rendered heroic by the mess.
enser's exposure to snow. zero tenn
perature and Indian exposure for
distance of 23s miles.
. In 1858 Colonel Darlington, who was
severely wounded the year before in
an encounter with the Indians at Sage
Creek, near Fort Laramie. is assigned
10 duty Is professor OF military science
at Wabash College. Crawfordsyille,
Ind. The death OF his wife at his
home there is followed by his mar.
riage to Mrs Grummond in 1871. ana
his removal first to Boston and then.
to Hyde Park. where he has continued
his historical and literary studies.
The return of General and Mrs
Darlington in July of 1908 to Sheri-
dan. in Northern Wyoming, marks the
unwilling of monument on Massacre
Hill, to the memory of those who ne,
slshed there and the delivery OF
Fourth of July grafton by General Car
rfngton. In the closing paragraph or
the fourth part Of Mrs. carrtngton's
book. which contains a full descrip-
ton OF the changed conditions made
by the progress Of the Northwest be-
tween the years 1866 and 1905, she
says:
Throughout our American republic
there are societies that treat with rev.
erence and honor those OF its founders
from whom descent can be traced. but
In Wyoming and other recent states
OF the West the very founders them
selves survive, until nearly three gen.
erations are participant In truthful
verbal narration Of personal struggles
and victories that have matured the
present abiding peace,
"Ihe soveEeiEnty of the States.
BY Walter Neale. The Neale Pub
fishing Co.. of New York. 81 net.
book that embodies an oratios. tn
be made to the survivors Of the Eighth
Virginia Regiment at the battle-ground
OF Manassas on July 81 Of this year.
In his book grafton Mr.. Neale 70.
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