A surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn : James DeWolf's diary and letters, 1876 / edited by Todd E. Harburn ; foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton.

Author: DeWolf, James M., 1843-1876, author.

Imprint:Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]

Descriptionxxv, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Note:"James DeWolf's diary and letters were originally published in North Dakota History 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1958): 33-82."--title page verso.

Note:James Madison DeWolf of Mehoopany, Pennsylvania -- Fort Seward, D.T.: March 10 to April 14, 1876 -- Fort Abraham Lincoln, D.T.: April 16 to May 14, 1876 -- Misjudgment and the trail to disaster: May 17 to June 24, 1876 -- "If he had gotten a few feet further ...": the retreat to Reno Hill -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- A. Account book pages of DeWolf's diary -- B. DeWolf's early diary entries, October 1875 -- Edward S. Luce's introduction to DeWolf's diary and letters, 1958.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Note:"The biography and annotated journal of physician James Madison DeWolf, a contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, who accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Custer's battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and died in the early stages of battle."--Provided by publisher.

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