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Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
Vanished Arizona
Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
Martha Summerhayes
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Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE
VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
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Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
Preface
I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless
request of my children.
For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales
they have so often heard, they always say: "Now, mother, will you write
these stories for us? Please, mother, do; we must never forget them."
Then, after an interval, "Mother, have you written those stories of
Arizona yet?" until finally, with the aid of some old letters written from
those very places (the letters having been preserved, with other papers of
mine, by an uncle in New England long since dead), I have been able to
give a fairly connected story.
I have not attempted memorate my husband's brave career in
the Civil War, as I was not married until some years after the close of that
war, nor to describe the many Indian campaigns in which he took part, nor
to write about the achievements of the old Eighth Infantry. I leave all that
to the historian. I have given simply the impressions made upon the mind
of a young New England woman who left fortable home in the
early seventies, to follow a second lieutenant into the wildest
encampments of the American army.
Hoping the story may possess some interest for the younger women of
the army, and possibly for some of our old friends, both in the army and in
civil life, I venture to send it forth.
POSTCRIPT (second edition).
The appendix to this, the second edition of my book, will tell
something of the kind manner in which the first edition was received by
my friends and the public