GENERAL NELSON A. MILES: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF GENERAL NELSON A. MILES….

Chicago, New York: The Werner Co., 1896. 591 pp. Frontis. portrait. Numerous illustrations by Frederic Remington and others. Original decorative cloth. First edition, second state as indicated by “Major General” on the frontispiece caption. Minor wear to spine ends and corners with one rear corner bumped, overall, very good (no dust jacket issued). Luther, Custer High Spots 144: “…is fairly strong pro-Custer but is useful in presenting the views of a successful Indian fighter on some of the controversial points.” General Miles served the military from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War. In the Civil War he fought in a number of critical battles---Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and numerous other skirmishes. At Chancellorsville he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry. Post-Civil War, Miles played a leading role in nearly all the Army’s campaigns against the Indians. He commanded the forces that defeated the Kiowa, Comanche, and Southern Cheyenne along the Red River. He pursued the Lakota after Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn and intercepted Chief Joseph in the Nez Perce War. In 1886, Miles replaced General George Crook in the pursuit of Geronimo and the Apaches. He died in 1925 at the age of 85, one of the last surviving general officers of the Civil War on either side.