Early Days At Red River Settlement And Fort Snelling Reminiscences of Ann Ada
Early Days At Red River Settlement And Fort Snelling Reminiscences of Ann Ada
Barbara Ann Shadecker Adams
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Many of these officers were men of the highest ability, most of them having been graduates of West Point. Several of them, unfortunately, contracted social habits in the army which ultimately clouded the honor which they would otherwise have won from their meritorious military careers, and more than one of them closed his days even in disgrace and poverty. Army life was not favorable to saving money; no officer that I ever knew made any money while in the army. There was less blame to be attach...ed to their error in the way of conviviality, than there would have been to men in other occupations. Gar- rison life at Ft. Snelling and other frontier posts, those days, was a very monotonous round of existence. The routine duties of the day consumed but very little time, ordinarily, and the rest of the time must have hung very heavy on their hands. In summer they could amuse themselves with hunting, as game was always abundant. But during the long and rigorous winters it was a great problem, "how to kill time.
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