| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons. By George Rollie Adams. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xix + 389 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50; £34.)

William Selby Harney was a southerner reared by the U. S. Army. Born in Tennessee in 1800, he joined the army in 1818 and served with distinction until the Civil War. He was one of few men who achieved the rank of brigadier general before the Civil War. In May 1861, questions of his loyalty to the Union caused him to be relieved of command. He retired in 1863, was breveted Major General in 1865, and died in 1889. 1

Harney was important in the development of the American West. One of the U. S. Army's major roles was as a frontier constabulary, pacifying western Indians and protecting settlers. Because the army also was created to defend against foreign aggression, little time or energy remained to create an Indian policy or to perfect means to deal with Indian guerrilla tactics. American commanders had to learn in the field, and William Harney was sent nearly everywhere frontier Indian "problems" emerged. He instinctively honed his aggressive skills and became "the most successful Indian fighter of his time" (p. 281). . . .

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