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Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908
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Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908
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The events of Fanny’s life are sometimes amusing but more often dramatic. The Corbusiers moved frequently, but Fanny made moving an art form, often selling all the family possessions to avoid high shipping rates. She learned to cope with primitive living conditions and harsh climates. She raised five sons at posts with no schools. But Fanny took her job as a mother seriously, providing her sons with a broad education and a nurturing home.
Corbusier’s long life and her husband’s thirty-nine-year career in the army (recounted in his memoir Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar) allow the reader to experience the period between the Civil War and World War I in totality, including her exceptional memories of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.
As the recollections of two people whose lives played out against a world panorama, Fanny and William’s memoirs together provide a rare opportunity to examine events of frontier military life from both male and female perspectives.
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was the career army wife of officer-surgeon William Henry Corbusier.
, retired federal civil servant and education specialist with the United States Navy Recruiting Command, is the author of
, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.