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"Guarding the Border during the Mexican Revolution: The Memoir of Ward Schrantz, 22nd U.S. Infantry," by Jeffrey L. Patrick
ABSTRACT: Private Ward Schrantz of the 22nd U.S. Infantry was
stationed at El Paso, Texas, from 1912 to 1913. His memoir of army
life on the U.S.-Mexican border during the Mexican Revolution details
the trials and tribulations of an ordinary infantryman in the
Southwest during this volatile period.
KEY WORDS: U.S. Army; El Paso; Mexican Revolution; borderlands.
"'Dear Husband': The Civil War Letters of Sophronia Joiner Chipman,
Kankakee County, Illinois, 1863-1865," by Vicki Betts
ABSTRACT: The letters of Sophronia Chipman to her husband in the
76th Illinois Infantry describe her life in rural Kankakee County
during the second half of the Civil War. In them she discusses her
concerns for her husband's health, the care of her family, neighbors,
the draft, and the near loss of the family's farm.
KEY WORDS: Civil War; Kankakee County; Illinois;
homefront; women
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