Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar: The Memoirs of William Henry by William Henry Corbusier
By William Henry Corbusier
Military physician, ethnographer, and author William Henry Corbusier (1844–1930) witnessed the transformation of the USA from younger republic to international strength. In Soldier, health care professional, student, the retired military officer and health practitioner recounts his reports, which come with a brand new York urban adolescence, early life in gold-rush California, and armed forces existence from the wilds of Arizona to the jungles of the occupied Philippines.In 1864, Corbusier joined the Union military as a freelance healthcare professional, serving within the cavalry brigade below basic Benjamin Grierson. His memoir covers seventeen army assignments within the South, the Northeast, the good Lakes, and the yank West, in addition to excursions of responsibility within the Philippine Islands. Enthusiastically embracing those widespread relocations, Corbusier thrilled in watching frontier peoples and learning usual history.An ethnographer and ethnologist, Corbusier released experiences of the languages and cultures of the Yavapai, the Sioux, and the Shoshoni. And his memoir files his observations on American Indian dances and ceremonies and his clinical remedy of fashionable figures, equivalent to Sarah Winnemucca, pink Cloud, and American Horse.An account principally freed from self-promotion and editorializing, Corbusier’s memoir of his 8 many years of common reports is an engaging paintings of notable breadth. Corbusier’s spouse, Fanny, additionally recorded her recollections (Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollection of military existence within the Frontier West), and jointly, those significant other memoirs current a distinct view of frontier military existence with specific viewpoints at the shared occasions of Fanny and William’s marriage, in addition to the separate issues that husband and spouse, respectively, deemed worthy recounting.
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We made many stops and sometimes passengers surgeon, went ashore so as to lighten the boat, although it drew very little water. scholar After the boat cleared a sand bar, we would board her again. There were many native shacks along the river, at some of which we bought limeade, fruits and occasionally cakes or other food. Meals were not furnished on board, so my father produced his champagne-basket in which he had brought crackers, a large pineapple cheese, sardines and prepared coffee in cans, went to the engine-room and brought back hot water with which to mix the coffee extract and we had quite a lay-out.
It wasn’t very long boyhood in before I was sentenced to three days. 18 The leader ordered the small boys around and, when he tried to boss, I told him that he was only a negro minstrel, and that was a low down name to me, as actors were not held in any esteem among the people whom I had been brought up among. For this I was given the three days, but I could hold my own among the boys after that. ¶We took long walks out in the open with one of the teachers, or in the woods after huckleberries and blackberries, and once went fishing on the Sound.
We took long walks out in the open with one of the teachers, or in the woods after huckleberries and blackberries, and once went fishing on the Sound. Mr. June made us sinkers by pouring molting lead into holds that he drove into the sand. There were corn fields and apple orchards all around us. One road led over a bridge at a swampy place and we liked to wade in the water to let the leaches [sic] cling to our legs and then come out to rub them off and see the blood run. Fighting hornets was a major sport, and to go right up to a hornet[’]s nest and punch it to stir up the hornets, was a daring act.