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   On Sat, 28 May 2005 18:13:33 -0500, John Dean wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > WorldWideWayne wrote:   
   >> This might seem an odd question, but I just read Johnny D. Boggs'   
   >> novel "Once They Wore the Gray" and really enjoyed it. I'm wondering   
   >> if anyone can recommend other novels set in the cavalry, frontier   
   >> forts or during the Indian Wars?   
   >>   
   >   
   > It's a long time since I read it but I recollect John Prebble's "The   
   > Buffalo Soldiers" was about cavalry in the Indian Wars. And, of course,   
   > The Ford / Wayne movie "The Horse Soldiers" was based on the novel by   
   > Harold Sinclair which fictionalised Grierson's raid in the Civil War.   
   > And stories by James Warner Bellah were the basis for the Ford / Wayne   
   > cavalry trilogy.   
   >   
      
      
   Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. Terry C. Johnston has long been on my   
   must-read list, but that list is so damn long I hadn't got to him yet.   
   This'll be the extra push I needed. I had also forgotten about Bellah, but   
   that's a brilliant suggestion.   
      
   Now another question out of the blue. Came up in conversation the other day.   
   Was there any concept of "war crimes" during the Indians Wars? I don't know   
   how often it happened, but there were times when soldiers got out of hand and   
   maybe killed or tortured beyond strict military necessity. And it was not   
   unknown to take one's pleasure with the squaws. But when I look at the 50   
   offenses for which a soldier could be court-martialed, I don't see any charge   
   under which such activity would clearly fall. The list I'm talking about   
   comes from an 1864 officer's handbook available online at   
   http://www.usregulars.com/library.htm. Click on "Customs of Service," then   
   the officer's version, then "Offenses" in the "Military Justice" section. No.   
   50 probably comes the closest, but it's not clear it applies to the enemy or   
   even enemy non-combatants.   
      
   Thanks again for the literary suggestions. Good chance for me to get the old   
   lady mad at me again for spending half the night reading.   
      
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