The Indian War of 1864; Being A Fragment Of The Early History Of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado And Wyoming

Eugene Fitch Ware (1841-1911) was a soldier, journalist, politician, historian, lawyer, poet, and served as Commissioner of Pensions in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.


Born in Connecticut in 1841, Ware's family  moved in 1844 to Burlington, Iowa, where Eugene was educated in public schools and apprenticed in his father’s harness making trade.


He enlisted in April 1861, at the firing on Fort Sumter, in Company E, First Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he re-enlisted in Company L, Fourth Iowa Cavalry & was mustered out as captain, Company F, Seventh Iowa Volunteer Cavalry in June 1866. In the latter part of his service, he was an aide-de-camp successively to Generals Robert Mitchell, C. J. Stolbrand, Washington Ellett & Grenville M. Dodge--the last named, one of Sherman’s trusted commanders.


Much of his five (5) years in the military was spent in Sioux country, fighting in Indian Wars, during which Ware was badly wounded while on duty.


He published his exciting eyewitness historical account of his duty during the Indian Wars in "The Indian War of 1864; Being A Fragment Of The Early History Of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado And Wyoming", in which he portrays the harrowing life of the US cavalry on the frontier during the American Civil War. The Indians used the strife, with the encouragement of the Confederacy, to try to stop white settlement on their ancestral hunting grounds. At this time, the Indians could still hold their own militarily since the repeating rifle, which gave the decisive edge to the white man, would not become common until about 1870 & military supply was confined to ox-drawn wagons; as the Transcontinental Railroad would no be completed until 1869. His eyewitness account of this struggle, the Indian way of life, & the overwhelming Western emigrant flow illustrates the impeding doom of the various Plains indian cultures, that would occur in the 1870's.


There are approximately 160,000+ words and approximately 533+ pages at 300 words per page in this e-book.

NOTE: This book has been scanned then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been applied to turn the scanned page images back into editable text. Then every effort has been made to correct typos, spelling, and to eliminate stray marks picked up by the OCR program. The original and/or extra period images, if any, were then placed in the appropriate place and, finally, the file was formatted for the e-book criteria of the site. This means that the text CAN be re-sized, searches performed, & bookmarks added, unlike some other e-books that are only scanned---errors, stray marks, and all.


We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations if any were present in the original. This means that the reader can click on the links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that chapter or illustration.


Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print (OOP) classic books at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of antiquarian and out-of-print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies.


We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on your favorite e-book site.