The Galvanized Yankees

Dee Alexander Brown

U of Nebraska Press, 1963 - History - 243 pages

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms.

From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. Dee Brown, the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

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Review: The Galvanized Yankees

User Review  - Mike Gottert - Goodreads

An interesting and well-documented book about a little known group. Recommended if you have an interest in the US Civil War or the Indian Wars.

Review: The Galvanized Yankees

User Review  - Fredrick Danysh - Goodreads

During the American Civil War, many captured Confederate soldiers were offered a choice of rotting in a Union prisoner of war camp or entering the Union army to fight Indians on the Western frontier.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Bloody Year on the Plains: 11
• Oaths and Allegiances: 54

About the author

Dee Brown wrote more than twenty-five books on American history and the West, including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Galvanized Yankees
• Author: Dee Alexander Brown
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press, 1963
• ISBN: 080326075X, 9780803260757
• Length: 243 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); History / United States / General