General De Trobriand’s Dakota Journal: Life in the U.S. Army, 1867–1869

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Philippe RŽgis de Trobriand was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who served in the American Civil War and later in the Indian Wars. His Journal from the late 1860s is a fascinating look into the rumbling post-Civil-War volcano that was brewing between settlers and Native Americans in the Dakota Territory.

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