Spring has Sprung!
Accidental Country Girls: Spring has Sprung!
Soldiers at Sand Creek (a series): Three Colonels, Three Majors and a General - Part XIV
Colonel George Laird Shoup: The Invisible Commander – Part 7 (last)
The Buffalo Springs Massacre – Third Regiment’s “First Blood.”
Soldiers at Sand Creek (a series): Three Colonels, Three Majors and a General - Part XIII
Colonel George Laird Shoup: The Invisible Commander – Part 6
Soldiers at Sand Creek (a series) Three Colonels, Three Majors and a General - Part XI
Colonel George Laird Shoup: The Invisible Commander – Part 4
For all of Shoup’s 28-year-old’s energy, apparent dedication to duty and willingness to obey orders, we must take pause. Elevated overnight to the rank of full Colonel commanding the Third Regiment Cavalry, Coloradi [U.S.] Vols. (a “100-day’s” regiment), he was a third-year veteran of service in the Army.