Thrilling Days in Army Life describes encounters between Indians and the frontier army. In 1868 George A. Forsyth led fifty scouts to search out Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who were conducting raids throughout the western Great Plains in Kansas. In this book, he relates the six-day siege that pitted his men against 750 Cheyenne and Sioux in what came to be known as the Battle of Beecher Island. Forsyth, who was brevetted brigadier general for the 1868 battle, had an action-packed career. In 1882 he led a dangerous raid in which his Fourth Cavalry pursued the Chiricahua Apache from New Mexico into Mexico. During the Civil War, Forsyth was an aid to Major General Philip H. Sheridan, and he describes a dramatic ride to the rescue of Union troops at Cedar Creek. He ends with an eyewitness account of the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Court House.

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