Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army

by James O. Carson and James Carson

Henry Martyn Lazelle (1832-1917) was the only cadet in the history of the US Military Academy to be suspended and sent back a year (for poor grades and bad behavior) and eventually return as Commandant of the Corps of Cadets. After graduating from West Point in 1855, he scouted with Kit Carson, was wounded by Apaches, and spent nearly a year as a "paroled" prisoner-of-war at the outbreak of the Civil War. Exchanged for a Confederate officer, he took...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574416111
• ISBN13: 9781574416114
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"