Five years a cavalryman
Subtitle: or, Sketches of regular army life on the Texas frontier, twenty odd years ago
By: by H.H. McConnell
Publisher: J.N. Rogers & Co., printers
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Jacksboro, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Military life; Frontier and pioneer life; Description and travel; Armed Forces; Travel; United States. Army; United States
Other titles: Sketches of regular army life on the Texas frontier
Table of contents: title: Off for Carlisle ; Fresh fish ; The barracks ; Fellow soldiers ; Toughs ; Tattoo ; Taps ; The bounty jumper ; Bully Welch ; The routine of the day ; Flesh pots ; Rumors ; Knapsacks packed ; Off for the frontier; title: Off for Texas ; Through Baltimore ; On board the Crescent ; A tobacco famine ; The sea, the sea ; Galveston Bay ; Pelican Island ; The giant mosquito ; The army clerk ; On to Indianola; title: Matagorda Bay ; Lavacca ; The model railway ; Victoria ; Some veterans ; The ox-cart ; The ranchero ; The voucher ; Goliad; title: The greaser ; The cactus ; The prairie ; San Antonio ; The Alamo ; The norther ; Climate ; Scenery ; On the road ; Austin at last; title: Austin ; The capitol ; Still a recruit ; On the road ; The Leon ; The Brazos ; The six-shooter ; The frontiersman ; On to Jacksboro; title: The prairie fire ; Weatherford ; The last settlement ; Indian stories ; The jack of clubs ; Vanity ; Old Paddy ; The frontier as it was ; Jacksboro "twenty odd years ago"; title: The model jail ; The spade mightier than the sword ; The Picket house ; In the woods ; The jack rabbit ; The cottontail ; The affadavit man ; New duities; title: California Jack, the argonaut ; The quicksand ; The Tonkawa, Captain Charley ; The little joker ; Pine Top, or White Mule; title: Jacksboro abandoned; title: on the march ; The buffalo [American bison] ; The sand burr ; The tarantula ; Fort Belknap; title: On the Brazos ; The orderly ; Analysis extraordinary ; Very salt water ; Texas coal ; The cyclone ; The atmosphere ; Texas rivers ; A fishing expedition; title: The centipede ; The scorpion ; The colonel and the sutler's clerk ; The Teuton ; "Put him to pulling weeds" ; Good-bye to Belknap ; Jacksboro again; title: Sentimental humbug ; Hard tack ; "Forty centuries are looking on you to-day" ; High freight ; On to Buffalo Springs ; The oldest inhabitant and his foibles ; The first sergeant; title: Red tape ; The company clerk ; The sick book ; Billy's sowl ; Gone to meet Noah ; The treed steward ; The mammoth mule-ear ; Bob Fawls ; "As large as a doe" ; The glorious Fourth ; Civilian employes [employees]; title: Teamster killed ; The scout starts ; Indians! ; Besieged ; The war whoop ; Two nights in the corral ; The blunderbuss ; "Dinna ye hear it?" ; The major "marches home" ; Reinforcements; title: Irregular mails ; "Only a soldier" ; No romance about the regulars ; An electrical freak ; Drouth [Drought] ; The stockade ; The spade and the pick again ; Weak human nature exemplified; title: The Irishman ; The dog robber ; No vegetables ; The "red mustang" ; The good Indian ; Swearing off ; Falling from grace ; Human nature the same in or out of the army ; The snake bite ; "Like cures like"; title: Monotony ; New quarters ; Texas game ; The antelope ; The "Spencer" ; Turkey hunting ; The cow hunter ; The 'bucking" pony ; The "cow-brute"; title: Gambling ; Reflections ; "Taking a blanket" ; The "bob-tail" ; A "year and a butt" ; Indians at Jacksboro ; The Crawford episode ; The old piano; title: The old major ; The "regular's" opinion of the militiaman ; Buffalo Springs abandoned ; "Johnny-come-lately" ; Hoofs instead of affidavits ; "California Jack" lives for months on acorns and grows fat; title: Camp dogs ; Private Blow of the U. S. A. ; Christmas ; The "burnside" ; Last night at Buffalo Springs; title: On the road in the rain ; Swimming a creek ; The wagon starts toward the Gulf [of Mexico] ; Lucy's peril ; Real and ideal soldier life contrasted ; Back at Jacksboro; title: The new post ; St. [Saint] Patrick's Day ; "No Sunday until further orders" ; Old Paddy once more ; Cooking in a wooden pail ; The "unwound" compass ; Some new zoology ; The brevet, an "empty honor"; title: DeForrest's story of Colonel Marcy's famous march across the mountains during the Albert Sidney Johnston Expedition in 1857; title: The paymaster ; Results of pay day [payday] ; The courtmartial [court-martial] ; The days of "Reconstruction" ; The new fort ; "Red-hot times" in Jacksboro; title: Fort Richardson ; Old Rann ; "I'm too young to marry, love" ; Brother Patton ; Improvements ; The hospital ; The surgeon and the acting surgeon ; Fishing for a discharge ; A "sure cure" for chills; title: The Yankee machine ; The overland ; The palmy days of staging ; Sand-hill George ; Lieutenant Hill ; "Donigan" ; The flea ; "Woman" : a poem; title: A trip to San Antonio ; On guard ; Failure as a cook ; Sunrise on the prairie ; Waco ; The "[Freedman's] Bureau" ; The "future great" [future settlement of the Brazos]; title: On the road ; Recollections of recruit days ; Still another "El-lum" Creek ; Through Austin ; The San Marcos ; The Hidalgo ; San Antonio revisited ; The Chihuahua wagon; title: "How?" ; The tamale ; Chili-con-carne ; The bull fight ; By stage to Jacksboro ; Chaffee's Guerillas ; "Banes" ; "Der bruer's barty"; title: Courtsmartial [Courts-martial] ; General, field officers, and garrison ; The guard-house lawyer ; The guard-house dog ; The "blind" ; Below par ; The marine ; "We'll fine him ten dollars, Paul!"