Download or read book Frontiersmen in Blue; the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 written by Robert M. Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the U.S. Regular and Volunteer Armies in the two decades between the Mexican and Civil Wars, and an assessment of how the U.S. military policy and its implementation set the ground for the next half-century of westward expansion.