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Memories of a Busy Life, part 1: The subsections of this installment are called ""Boyhood in Milwaukee,"" ""West Point Years,"" and ""Service with the Regulars."" In this essay the soldier and writer Charles King (1844-1933) recalls his childhood friends who included future Gen. Arthur MacArthur and the social customs of Milwaukee in the 1850s. He provides much detail on his years at West Point during the Civil War, including conversations with Abraham Lincoln, before summarizing his time preserving order in New Orleans during Reconstruction, where he helped quell race riots, played baseball, and raced horses. In 1872 he was assigned to the western frontier, and he describes fighting Apaches in Arizona and the Sioux and Cheyenne on the Great Plains during the 1870s. He provides anecdotes about Lakota chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890), Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse (1849-1877), and frontier scout William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (1846-1917). This portion of his memoirs ends when he was ba
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