GI Series: Redlegs: The US Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, 1861-1869 by John P. Langellier JACHOBOSEN

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GI Series: Redlegs: The US Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, 1861-1869 by John P. Langellier JACHOBOSENThis volume in the popular G. I. series illustrates a much neglected aspect of American military history the U. S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against the American Indians through to the Spanish American War. Artillery was a vital arm and proved its worth in all of these diverse theaters of war;