Idaho Territory - Nez Perce War, Chief Joseph, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Cow Creek, Oliver O. Howard (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Nez Perce War, Chief Joseph, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 7th Cavalry Regiment, Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Cow Creek, Oliver O. Howard, Napoleon J.T. Dana, John Gibbon, Cow Island, Missouri Breaks, Eastern Montana, Nelson A. Miles, Battle of White Bird Canyon, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Battle of Camas Creek, Samuel D. Sturgis, Wallowa River, Edmond Butler, Big Hole National Battlefield, Stephen F. Chadwick, Battle of the Tongue River, Bannock War, Chief White Bird, Battle of the Clearwater, Powder River Expeditions, Nez Perce National Historical Park, Chief Looking Glass. Excerpt: The 1st Cavalry Regiment is a unit in the United States Army which has its antecedents in the early 19th Century in the formation of the United States Regiment of Dragoons. To this day, the unit's Special Designation is "First Regiment of Dragoons." The "United States Regiment of Dragoons" was organized by an Act of Congress approved 2 March 1833. It became the "First Regiment of Dragoons" when the Second Dragoons were raised in 1836. With the outbreak of the Civil War and the War Department's desire to redesignate and reorganize its mounted units, its designation was changed to "First Regiment of Cavalry" by another Act of Congress on 3 August 1861. Its Headquarters were initially established at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, Missouri. In the spring of 1855 two new regiments of cavalry, the First and Second Cavalry were authorized. One of these was named "The First Cavalry Regiment," under the command of Lt. Col. Edwin Vose Sumner, the first regular American military unit to bear that name. Sumner was previously with the First Dragoons. The regiment was initially organized as: The first order announcing appointments in the regiment was dated 5 March 1833, and gave the names of the colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, four captains and four lie...