It is remarkable to us today that Lydia Lane wrote of the "old army" in 1893. She had married a soldier in 1854 and headed out to his post in the wilds of Texas. This is their story as pioneers, her husband attached to the U.S. Mounted Rifles.Of privations she has much to write but she also notes:"The truth is, all army women, from the wife of the commanding general down to the wife of a second lieutenant, are treated with so much courtesy and politeness...
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