Author: Grierson, Alice Kirk, edited and introduction by Shirley Anne Leckie,
Title: The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson.
Description: Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Press, (1989). VG PB. Grierson spent most of her life at army outposts on the 19th century western frontier where she faced problems of raising. a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. She left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence. Grierson was the wife of Benjamin H. Grierson, a major-general in the Civil War who won farme for a raid that contributed to the fall of Vicksburg.

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