Sergeant Crœsus by Charles King
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January 2023
Originally published 1893
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
ePublished by
January 2023
Originally published 1893
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
No writer is better than Charles King at bringing the reader vividly and realistically into the life of a U. S. Army soldier during the late-19th-early-20th century. Because of his personal experience as an officer in the conflicts of that period, he not only gets the historical details correct, but also the settings, moods, and day-to-day life, including the personal, romantic, financial, and family life of the soldiers living on those far-flung military posts along the western frontier.
Sergeant Crœsus gives the reader a different perspective, that of an immigrant recruit who joins the U. S. Cavalry during the uprisings of the Plains Indians of the Wild West during the 1870s. Recruiters didn’t care that he couldn’t speak a word of English. These recruits were considered little more than cannon fodder, sure to either desert for western gold mines or be scalped by Indians. The American military has always been full of immigrants, military service being considered an honorable route to citizenship, and it sometimes happens that the background of these immigrants is a mystery. Such is the case with the hero of this novel.
Sergeant Crœsus gives the reader a different perspective, that of an immigrant recruit who joins the U. S. Cavalry during the uprisings of the Plains Indians of the Wild West during the 1870s. Recruiters didn’t care that he couldn’t speak a word of English. These recruits were considered little more than cannon fodder, sure to either desert for western gold mines or be scalped by Indians. The American military has always been full of immigrants, military service being considered an honorable route to citizenship, and it sometimes happens that the background of these immigrants is a mystery. Such is the case with the hero of this novel.