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Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army . North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series. By James Carson. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2015. xxvii + 399 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95, cloth; $26.36, e-book.) Visitors to Sturgis, South Dakota, perhaps wonder briefly how Lazelle Street got it name. This book will tell them. Henry M. Lazelle, then major of the First U.S. Infantry, commanded nearby Fort Meade, Dakota Territory, during construction of that post in 1878–1879. An 1855 graduate of West Point, Lazelle served in the Southwest before the Civil War; was surrendered to the Confederates by General David Twiggs, along with many other federal troops in Texas; and had to wait some eighteen months to … William.dobak{at}verizon.net
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